This movie is based on the historical Valkyrie operation . After watching the movie, I looked up this assassination operation in history. The description of it on Baidu Encyclopedia is this: In the 1930s, when the Nazis were rampant, people of insight continued to plan and implement plans to assassinate Hitler. On July 20, 1944, a leather bag containing a time bomb was placed in the conference room of Hitler's Eastern Front Field headquarters "Wolf's Den". At 12:42, the bomb exploded, and Hitler escaped with only minor injuries. The assassination, orchestrated by the Stauffenberg Group, immediately shocked the world. Although it was unsuccessful, it marked the end of the Third Reich.
And back to the movie, when I watched this movie without knowing about Valkyrie’s actions, I knew that Hitler didn’t die because of the assassination, so no matter how I expected their assassination to be successful, I also know that history is set . I can only say that history has no assumptions, and the truth has too many uncertainties. Now, the 20th of July in history has become a proud day for all Germans. I don’t think the Stauffenberg Group could have imagined that, after all, what they wanted to do was to assassinate Hitler in Operation Valkyrie, not to let Germans remember July 20th. When I already know the end of history, how much I still hope that they will succeed in assassinating Hitler, that others will not give Admiral Stauffenberg so much denial, and that they will not hesitate so much after learning the news of the explosion. Coincidences are deliberately emphasized in the film, such as the soldier noticing that Admiral Stauffenberg hadn't changed his clothes, giving it back to him after another soldier took his handbag by mistake in the confusion, and then giving it back to him. While the handbag was under the table, someone took it to the end away from Hitler. And at the beginning of the film, an officer describes how powerful the bomb is. I have no way of knowing the real reason in history, after all Admiral Stauffenberg said he saw the explosion with his own eyes, but after all Hitler didn't die in the explosion.
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