Posted on 04/22/2007 7:56:23 PM PDT by aculeus
But bombs in suitcases are sexier though (Cue 1940s music playing in phonograph)
Have you read this vanity?
Cheers!
After he left, another officer moved the brief case containing the bomb to the other side of the support. Hitler may also have moved further away from it while studying the maps. That was when the bomb went off.
Unfortunately, a good deal of the blast went out of the building [in the originally scheduled conference room, the concrete would have forced the blast waves inward, likely killing everyone]. Hitler suffered a perforated eardrum, a slight injury to one of his legs, and had his uniform ripped to shreds. Several officers on the other side of the table support died immediately. At least one other officer died later from his wounds.
Olga is a sweet but misguided member of the Hitler Youth (Gwyneth is perfect. I’m sleeping with her agent’s secretary’s sister’s friend’s ex-roommate. I’ll take a lunch with the agent.)
She is beautiful and looks very Germanic, but alas, she was rejected for a Wermacht recruiting poster because of her too-small chest (Like I said, Gwyneth will be perfect.)
She wanted to have this new surgical procedure call Big Bratwurst Breast whereby silicone is inserted into her chest by the kindly old doctor, but at the last minute, the silicone is needed to reduce the friction in the gyroscopes guiding the V1 missiles and the poor old kindly doctor is murdered on Hitler’s orders by Joseph Mengle, who looks a lot like Karl Rove.
Can we get Mel Brooks to play Hitler?
So Helga, Olga, what the hell is her name is recruited by General Wunderbar, who looks a lot like John Kerry to kill Hitler... but at the last moment, an RAF bomber piloted by a sleazy guy who looks like a rabid young Ronald Reagan screws up the whole thing.
In the end, we see Brunhilda/Olga/Helga, whatever we call her confessing her sorrow but not her sins for the ecological damaged caused by the Normandy invasion to a kindly priest who looks a lot like former VP Al whats-his-name.
Can we get $500 million to make this picture? We'll make Patton gay. They'll love it!
From the article it sounds like they were Wehrmacht, not rebels.
I case you didn’t get it, I was kidding.
I thought it also created severe wounds to Hitler’s arm.
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There's a plausible theory in some circles that the 1944 bomb *did* kill Hitler, which explains why Hitler's remains were never recovered/displayed after the war (and many decades later verified via DNA tests).
That theory also explains why the Wehrmacht was given ridiculous orders to fight to the last man to hold ground in Russia rather than retreat back into Germany to fight from behind pre-built fortifications...as a "Hitler double" could be made to look the part, but wouldn't be expected to have much grasp of military tactics.
You’re comparing Bill Clinton to Hitler? I’m sorry, but that’s a bit much.
“They weren’t really ‘losing’ in November 1943 yet.”
Uh, yes they were. North Africa and Sicily were already lost, and the allies had invaded Italy. We were bombing Germany nightly, and the U-boat fleet was under very heavy pressure. On the Eastern Front, Stalingrad had been lost completely in January of ‘43, and Kursk’s massive loss was the prior summer. If that’s not losing, what is?
Thanks for the refresher, you are right, that is as I was told it 39 years ago. The site has an eerie, sinister, feel to it that I remember to this day.
That trip was my first experience of Eastern Europe, and I was not unduly alarmed by the amount of military vehicles and troops that I saw in that area, assuming it to normal for the Eastern bloc.
Little did I know that what I was witnessing at the time was the Russian Army moving through Poland to invade Czechoslovakia and depose Alexander Dubcek.
Heck, what did I know, I was only 17 at the time.
That’s not what the article says. It says the plotters planned to sue for peace, hence, why the first sentence says the war would end. I think you are getting confused, because they were initially going to blame the plot on a traitorous SS group. Read the article again.
The German General Staff knew they were losing when the 1941 drive on Moscow failed. They knew they didn’t have the manpower or industry for a prolonged total war.
How were they supposed to achieve this "peace" once Hitler was dead? Just ask Stalin nicely? The Eastern Front had already crumbled and the tide of war had turned. Furthermore, the US and UK were committed to Germany's unconditional surrender. The plotters may have hoped for a separate peace with the US and UK was Hitler was gone, but such a deal was unlikely, and they'd have to keep fighting the Soviets regardless. The writer of this article would probably blame the Allies' unreasonable unconditional surrender demand for prolonging the war unnecessarily.
I get really tired of hearing about how these German resistance plotters were a bunch of great heroes. Von Tresckow was connected to Stauffenberg and the circle around Admiral Canaris. They were all loyal, patriotic German soldiers who knew that Hitler was flushing Germany down the crapper. They weren't on our side. They were on Germany's side.
There was a bomb in a centerpiece at a dinner... oh wait. That was an episode of Hogan’s Heroes.
Read the article. The Allies did not intentionally “foil” the plot. They just happened to bomb something that was integral to the plot.
You are referring to the 1944 von Stauffenberg attempt (briefcase). This story (suicide) is about a newly-discovered plot from 1943.
The wild card there was the SS. Particularly, the Waffen SS. On the day he was wounded in Normandy, Rommel had been inspecting the 1st SS Panzerkorps, and sounding out Sepp Dietrich about seeking an armistice in the West without - and against - Hitler’s wishes. Purportedly, Dietrich told Rommel the SS under his command would support Rommel.
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