Re: Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 4:15 am
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Stauffenberg - fateful hour
925 grams of plastic explosives for a new Germany.
Claus von Stauffenberg spoke with his cousin, Oberstleutnant Cäsar von Hofacker, at General Stülpnagel's headquarters in Paris. However, Stülpnagel developed more energy here than the resistance generals at the center of the actual uprising. By nightfall he had arrested all the SS and security service people in Paris, 1,200 in number, including the dreaded SS General Karl Oberg, and put them under lock and key.
If the resistance fighters around Graf Stauffenberg in Berlin had acted with the same energy and systematic approach that afternoon, history could have taken a different course. Shortly after 4 p.m., the commander of Berlin, General von Hase, ordered the commander of the "Großdeutschland" guard battalion to prepare his troops to march. The aforementioned commander and recipient of the Knight's Cross, Major Otto Remmer, was to play his decisive role on this day - but in a different way than the resistance had intended for him. Remmer, who did not belong to the initiated circle of resistance fighters, implemented General von Hase's order as instructed in the Valkyrie plan and cordoned off the government district and the SS Reich Security Main Office.
Goebbels had just received a phone call from Hitler in the Ministry of Propaganda with instructions to announce over the radio as soon as possible that the attempt on Hitler had failed. Apparently Goebbels learned about the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in East Prussian Rastenburg for the first time. He looked out the window. What he saw there was alarming: soldiers from the Guard Battalion were about to surround the Ministry. Goebbels, quick-witted, ordered the commanding officer to be sent to him immediately.
While the resistance group in the High Command of the Wehrmacht was making contact with generals throughout Europe and wasted no thought on Major Remmer in the government district, Goebbels took on the major who was supposed to be arresting him. He immediately reminded the young officer of his oath of allegiance to the Fuhrer, picked up his phone and asked to be put through to Hitler again. Goebbels quickly handed the receiver to Remmer.
"Does he recognize my voice?" asked Adolf Hitler, Major Remmer clicked his heels and Hitler ordered him to put down the uprising. At the same time, Hitler promoted the major to colonel. Remmer withdrew his battalion from the government district, occupied the headquarters of Berlin, arrested the commander von Hase, sent out reconnaissance troops and made his way to the OKW on Bendlerstrasse in order to be able to arrest the main conspirators. General Fromm, himself armed with a pistol, arrested Beck, Hoepner, Olbricht and Mertz von Quirnheim after a wild shootout and after Claus von Stauffenberg was shot. Beck grabbed his own gun and said calmly, "I'll draw my own conclusions."
He pulled the trigger, but the bullet just grazed his head. Bleeding slightly, he sank into a chair. "Help the old man," General Fromm ordered. Fromm now turned to the arrested officers: "And you, gentlemen, if you still have something to write down, you still have a moment."
Then Fromm announced that he had convened a court-martial "in the name of the Führer" that had just pronounced the death sentence on four officers: Oberst im Generalstab Mertz von Quirnheim, General der Infanterie Olbricht, "this Oberst whose name I don't know and thisOberstleutnant". . He pointed to Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg and Oberstleutnant Haeften. In the courtyard of the Wehrmacht High Command, in the dim light of the dimmed headlights of some Wehrmacht trucks, the four officers were mercilessly shot. Stauffenberg died with the cry: "Long live our holy Germany."
After the execution, Fromm ordered an officer to shoot the unconscious Beck. Soldiers from the guard battalion took the five officers who had been shot to death in a truck to the Matthäi church cemetery in Schöneberg, where they were hastily buried with their uniforms and badges of honour.
Sources: http://www.mahnung-gegen-rechts.de/page ... stunde.htm (Offline)
Claus und Nina von Stauffenberg. Gunter Pirntke
http://www.vho.org/D/Staatsbriefe/Strauss9_7_8_2.html
http://www.joric.com/Conspiracy/Hoff.htm (Offline)
Cheers. Raúl M .
Stauffenberg - fateful hour
925 grams of plastic explosives for a new Germany.
Claus von Stauffenberg spoke with his cousin, Oberstleutnant Cäsar von Hofacker, at General Stülpnagel's headquarters in Paris. However, Stülpnagel developed more energy here than the resistance generals at the center of the actual uprising. By nightfall he had arrested all the SS and security service people in Paris, 1,200 in number, including the dreaded SS General Karl Oberg, and put them under lock and key.
If the resistance fighters around Graf Stauffenberg in Berlin had acted with the same energy and systematic approach that afternoon, history could have taken a different course. Shortly after 4 p.m., the commander of Berlin, General von Hase, ordered the commander of the "Großdeutschland" guard battalion to prepare his troops to march. The aforementioned commander and recipient of the Knight's Cross, Major Otto Remmer, was to play his decisive role on this day - but in a different way than the resistance had intended for him. Remmer, who did not belong to the initiated circle of resistance fighters, implemented General von Hase's order as instructed in the Valkyrie plan and cordoned off the government district and the SS Reich Security Main Office.
Goebbels had just received a phone call from Hitler in the Ministry of Propaganda with instructions to announce over the radio as soon as possible that the attempt on Hitler had failed. Apparently Goebbels learned about the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in East Prussian Rastenburg for the first time. He looked out the window. What he saw there was alarming: soldiers from the Guard Battalion were about to surround the Ministry. Goebbels, quick-witted, ordered the commanding officer to be sent to him immediately.
While the resistance group in the High Command of the Wehrmacht was making contact with generals throughout Europe and wasted no thought on Major Remmer in the government district, Goebbels took on the major who was supposed to be arresting him. He immediately reminded the young officer of his oath of allegiance to the Fuhrer, picked up his phone and asked to be put through to Hitler again. Goebbels quickly handed the receiver to Remmer.
"Does he recognize my voice?" asked Adolf Hitler, Major Remmer clicked his heels and Hitler ordered him to put down the uprising. At the same time, Hitler promoted the major to colonel. Remmer withdrew his battalion from the government district, occupied the headquarters of Berlin, arrested the commander von Hase, sent out reconnaissance troops and made his way to the OKW on Bendlerstrasse in order to be able to arrest the main conspirators. General Fromm, himself armed with a pistol, arrested Beck, Hoepner, Olbricht and Mertz von Quirnheim after a wild shootout and after Claus von Stauffenberg was shot. Beck grabbed his own gun and said calmly, "I'll draw my own conclusions."
He pulled the trigger, but the bullet just grazed his head. Bleeding slightly, he sank into a chair. "Help the old man," General Fromm ordered. Fromm now turned to the arrested officers: "And you, gentlemen, if you still have something to write down, you still have a moment."
Then Fromm announced that he had convened a court-martial "in the name of the Führer" that had just pronounced the death sentence on four officers: Oberst im Generalstab Mertz von Quirnheim, General der Infanterie Olbricht, "this Oberst whose name I don't know and thisOberstleutnant". . He pointed to Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg and Oberstleutnant Haeften. In the courtyard of the Wehrmacht High Command, in the dim light of the dimmed headlights of some Wehrmacht trucks, the four officers were mercilessly shot. Stauffenberg died with the cry: "Long live our holy Germany."
After the execution, Fromm ordered an officer to shoot the unconscious Beck. Soldiers from the guard battalion took the five officers who had been shot to death in a truck to the Matthäi church cemetery in Schöneberg, where they were hastily buried with their uniforms and badges of honour.
Sources: http://www.mahnung-gegen-rechts.de/page ... stunde.htm (Offline)
Claus und Nina von Stauffenberg. Gunter Pirntke
http://www.vho.org/D/Staatsbriefe/Strauss9_7_8_2.html
http://www.joric.com/Conspiracy/Hoff.htm (Offline)
Cheers. Raúl M .