A remarkable hero

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2014)

One or probably the most famous hero in German history. Colonel Von Stauffenberg was just a simple man... A simple soldier who believed in the ideals of extending German lives. Although stationed in Tunisia he started to see the inexplicable blood stain from Hitler travel across his homeland like a plague.
Armed with partners in the highest offices of Berlin Stauffenberg then initiated a protocol known as 'Valkyrie' A single condition should the existing government lose its goal in war that a new government would be written in its place. Stauffenberg nearly succeeded in implementing this condition to a point that the SS itself was under arrest in a matter of days.
With the bombing of the Wolf's Lair where Hitler was conducting war tactics failed the reserve army that Stauffenberg had under his control was then given new orders by the surviving Hitler himself to arrest all government officials. Now as all party leaders escape from certain death... Key figures within the government also did not escape their fates whether involved or not.
I can call this film a great achievement when it comes to hero's. Just the fact that Stauffenberg had no strength, he had no special gifts, nor did he use weapons in the face of his enemy. He used his wits, intelligence, and audacious attitude to stopping a formidable disturbed man who needed to die. Although most in the government saw Hitler as a single most threat to their way of life... some thought of him as a Savior.
Yet it was the German people themselves who hated Hitler the most. Only the Hierarchy, and the families involved in the atrocities which followed them loved Hitler. His baseless attempts to stamp out the Jewish regimes, and the dissidents who helped them became virtual nightmares. For whatever reason Hitler had to start a war has always been a mystery.
Even though he himself was half Jewish by birth. No this movie held great aspects of the human condition. To see tyranny be stopped in its tracks only after the deaths of Stauffenberg, and his teams of hero's. IN Nuremberg. Where Goring, and Hess were sentenced to death after the trials against humanity. A plaque was even erected at the sight where Stauffenberg, and his team was executed by firing squad to recognize his achievement as a local hero to the people.
A great movie, excellent actors, and a wonderful look into the past at how Hitler almost met his demise at the hands of Germany's greatest Solider, and Family man. Colonel Von Stauffenberg.