Tom Cruise is in 'Valkyrie', an upcoming film about the a German oficer killing Hitler for peace w/the Allies.

Question

But the Allies demanded an 'Unconditional Surrender', so how would killing Hitler have helped Germany?

Answer 1

After D-Day, Nazi Germany was losing the war BUT they were far far far from beaten, and the Allies knew it. They still had a lot of fight in them. Von Stauffenberg and the other conspirators wanted to make a deal with the Allies: "Look, we have the ability to drag this war on for another year or possibly more, we can kill hundreds of thousands of your people and make you spend billions of your money, OR we can make peace now, save you all that bloodshed and all that money and even the odd chance we might actually win, in exchange for these very lenient peace terms."
Hitler would NEVER have gone for that. He refused to believe Germany could or would lose the war and he threatened to shoot anybody who tried to broker a peace. He had to die before there was a chance for peace.

Von Stauffenberg's plan very probably would have worked had Hitler been killed (though I think von Stauffenberg still would have been executed, either by Goebbels or Borrmann, whichever took power from him). The Allies probably would have made peace with Germany (remember that at this point they still did not know about the death camps and the U.S. wasn't licking its wounds from Battle of the Bulge, etc.) and the peace would have been far more favorable than what was offered almost a year later (for example, the Nuremberg trials would probably never have happened). A year later, when Berlin was in ruins and the air force was nonexistent and 10 year old boys were being given guns, Germany had absolutely no chips to negotiate with. Basically, von Stauffenberg had wanted to go all-in while Germany still had a few chips.

I hope this movie doesn't try to make von Stauff. into too much of a hero. He was not. His decision to kill Hitler had a lot less to do with the fact that Hitler was a genocidal murderer and lunatic than it did with the fact Hitler was losing the war; when Hitler was winning the war, von Stauff. didn't have nearly as much of a problem with him.

Answer 2

Tom Who?

Killing Hitler would have allowed the German Military to regain control of the Armies from the pinhead NAZI party. Most Career German Officers recognized that the war was lost when the Allies Gained a beachhead at Normandy. They would have preferred cutting their losses by surrendering to the American and English forces, Instead Hitler continued to 'maneuver' phantom armies and Divisions and was supported by his Brown Shirt, GESTAPO and SS troops. In the end the very thing that the Germans feared came to pass, the Red Army Stormed into Berlin and destroyed everything in its path.

PS..todays Germans did not want Tom..what's his name in their country...

Answer 3

I think that most of the German military officers originally supported Hitler's plans to rebuild the military and his expansionist plans in the East. However the German military tried to warn Hitler in 1939 that any invasion of Poland would lead to Western intervention. The German high command were very reluctant to go to war against the west.

Tom Cruise plays loosely the part of Count Stauffenburg, a high ranking military officer from an aristocratic junker military background. The Junker military class were Germany's elite aristocratic classes, who had close ties with the British royal family - the Saxe Coburg Gothas of Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V - until they changed the family name to Windsor in 1917.

However, it was the military and the junker aristocratic class that supported Hitler's rise to power after the First World War and the humiliating Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to accept responsibility for the First World War and reparations. Military industrialists as Krupp also heavily financed Hitler and the Nazi rise to power.

Count Stauffenburg and his co-conspirators aimed to kill Hitler and bring an end to the war against the west - but continue the war in the East. Count Stauffenburg were also against Hitler's extermination program and were against the increasing influence of the SS under Heinrich Himmler, whose own Waffen SS and concentration camp system had warped the influence of the military in decision making.

What may have also pissed off the military was the increasing dismissive nature of Hitler towards the military with able generals being overriden on matters and Hitler taking matters into his own hands.

Stauffenburg and others may have hoped that Germany could keep her gains in Europe made under Hitler. But here is the irony - they supported Hitler when he was powerful, but opposed Hitler when he was a disaster. The military had also failed to act in 1934 when Hitler took dictatorial powers and effectively ended the democracy, and failed to take action when the Second World War broke out.

When Stauffenburg tried to rid Germany of Hitler in 1944, I wonder if it was Germany he was thinking of or his own class invested interests?

Answer 4

Oh please, examine the information authentic. he's not denied filming rights in Germany in maximum circumstances, merely on militia sites and that because of the fact they do no longer want him to portray Stauffenberg who tried to assasinate Hitler and is as a result one in each and all the very few heroes of Germany for the period of the Nazi era. The criminal situation in Germany could never make it a danger to disclaim all and sundry from enjoying in a movie in Germany because of the fact of his faith, however the militia has a ideal to settle on who they enable on their bases. The Bendlerblock the place they want to movie is now the seat of the German protection Ministry. it is an analogous in u . s . a ., no longer all and sundry can enter militia sites or maybe the protection Ministry as he needs and for even though objective he needs. individually i think of it is stupid, they might desire to enable him to movie. and flicks with Tom Cruise are shown in Germany, it rather is the 1st time that I hear it is a controversy that he's a Scientologist. it quite is rather merely because of the fact Stauffenberg is such an important person. If it became merely an entertainment movie it may never be a controversy.

Answer 5

It would end Hitler's terror, and would stop him from scheming or planning or just denying the surrender. Dead Hitler is better than Living Hitler.

Answer 6

It would have shortened the war thus saving German lives and further destruction