Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?

[rich]

Max Hastings has just reviewed Germany and the Second World War,
Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society, 1939–1945: Politicization,
Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival in latest issue of NYRB

He essentially says the same thing about the German army officers
resistance movement against Hitler. It was done because Germany was
losing the war and bleeding its people without too much worry about
the Nazi's victims, Jews, Slavs, etc., not from some moral compunction
for the most part. Hastings also speculates on what kind of government
the army would've constructed (autocratic with Himmler-like fantasies
about negotiations and border agreements (keeping Alsaice-Lorriane,
e.g.)  and such and that Britain and America were somewhat relieved
that Hitler wasn't killed due to political conundrums that would've
been brought to surface with Stalin and a wish on the part of the home
front populations pressuring for peace then.

what is striking about this official history written by the Germans
themselves is how clear they are in stating that everyone knew about
the camps and that in fact most thought the people imprisoned there,
belonged there.

Rich




On 2/11/09, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> West's Stauffenberg novel is one of the intensively discussed topics in
> Coetzee's "Elizabeth Costello."
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> Richard Evans has been attacked by Karl-Heinz Bohrer for his views:
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> http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/958/456626/text/
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> Thomas
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