"For a long time, it was not believable to normal Germans that the
government was criminal," he recalled. "And as soon as one thought
they had pushed that out of the way, then people just didn't want to
know."
-- Philipp von Boeselager, Plotted To Kill Hitler
How true this rings today throughout the former "United" States of
America.
People who TWICE voted for your WHITE HOUSE WAR CRIMINAL don't want be
reminded of that fact, no more than they care to remember that their
Nincompoop-In-Chief was on-board but loopily "out-of-the-loop" when
the 9/11 terrorist pilots came a-calling! Or that a majority of
Americans (including Hillary "Bush With A Cunt" Clinton)were happily
agreeable to illegally and immorally invading Iraq in March 2003. Or
that a large percentage of U.S. citizens, duped and benighted as they
might be, STILL think Hussein was behind 9/11!
This massive FORCED AMNESIA is doubtless the main reason Bushie and
his criminal friends have not been IMPEACHED, or tapped on the
shoulders by the International Criminal Court.
http://www.icc.cpi.int/home.html&l=en
To these actions, we must ask, "If not now, when?",
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Obituary
"Philipp von Boeselager, 90; Took Part in Plot to Kill Hitler"
Associated Press
Saturday, May 3, 2008; B06
Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, 90, a former German army major
believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of
plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase
bomb, died May 1, the German military said. No cause of death was
reported.
Major von Boeselager was part of a group of officers who tried to kill
Hitler on July 20, 1944, supplying explosives for the operation led by
Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg. The von Stauffenberg plot is
the basis for the upcoming Tom Cruise film "Valkyrie," in which the
actor plays the aristocratic colonel.
Von Stauffenberg placed the bomb in a conference room where Hitler was
meeting with aides and military advisers, but someone moved the
briefcase next to a table leg, which deflected much of the explosive
force.
Almost immediately afterward, von Stauffenberg and many of his cohorts
were arrested and executed in an orgy of revenge that saw some hanged
by the neck with piano wire. Although many of those rounded up by Nazi
officials were tortured in the hopes that they would give up other
conspirators, Maj. von Boeselager's name was never divulged, and he
was never found out. Still, he carried a cyanide capsule with him
until the end of the war in case his secret was revealed.
Maj. von Boeselager, who lived in Altenahr, near Bonn, was first
recruited by von Stauffenberg co-conspirator Maj. Gen. Henning von
Tresckow in 1942, he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an
interview three weeks ago that was published May 2.
He said he knew that Jews were being systematically killed and that
Germany was waging a war of annihilation along the Eastern Front with
Russia, He never considered declining to take part in the plot, he
said.
By 1942, "It was no longer about saving the country, but about
stopping the crimes," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
Maj. von Boeselager was assigned to the army high command as an aide
to Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, and the plotters first arranged
for him to try to shoot Hitler and SS chief Heinrich Himmler at a
meeting in 1943. Von Kluge, who committed suicide a month after the
1944 attempt on Hitler, called off the assassination at the last
minute after learning that Himmler would not be at the meeting.
Maj. von Boeselager followed von Kluge's orders but told the newspaper
the decision to do so never ceased to haunt him. "I always see Hitler
from here to the fireplace in front of me and think, 'What would have
happened if you had shot him?' " he said, indicating a distance of
about two feet with his hands.
He also recalled when he joined the von Stauffenberg plot: His brother
called him in spring 1944, asking for help in providing explosives.
Maj. von Boeselager recommended English-made explosives as the best,
and as part of his assignment to an explosives research team, he was
able to acquire them without drawing suspicion.
He delivered them to Maj. Gen. Helmuth Stieff, packed into a suitcase.
Stieff was later executed for his role in the plot, and Maj. von
Boeselager's brother was killed in fighting on the Eastern Front.
Had the bombing succeeded, Maj. von Boeselager said, he was assigned
to lead a 1,000-man unit into Berlin to secure the capital.
Von Boeselager told the newspaper that in the years immediately after
the war, he spoke with his wife, Rosa, about his role in the
resistance but otherwise said little else.
"There was nobody one could talk with about it," he said. "They were
all dead, and with others, it would just have been bragging."
There was also the fact that immediately after World War II, the July
20 plotters were widely viewed as traitors, a label the Nazis gave
them that stuck for years.
"For a long time, it was not believable to normal Germans that the
government was criminal," he recalled. "And as soon as one thought
they had pushed that out of the way, then people just didn't want to
know."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR200...
