The earliest understanding of this incident should be from a World War II documentary "World at War" (Chinese translation of World War II Apocalypse) when I was in junior high school. I still know about this incident, and I watched the TV movie "720" shot in Germany a few years ago, which showed the same incident.
Although it is a war film, there are few war scenes in the film. Although it is a war scene at the beginning, it is the beginning and the end. Just a few minutes of war scenes explain the process of Stauffenberg's injury in the African Army. Although it is short, it is very delicate. First of all, Stauffenberg and his superiors discussed the situation of the troops at that time. In the summer of 1943, the Afrikaans who had captured Tobruk had long since disappeared. Rommel, the soul, had been transferred from Africa. Sea dominance in the Mediterranean Sea and air dominance in North Africa have long been acquired by the Allies. The defeat of the Axis powers in Africa was already a foregone conclusion, so Stauffenberg was very disappointed with the situation, and was reluctant to make senseless resistance. He was ready to give up the attack and concentrate on the defense, so that more soldiers could go home alive.
Immediately, the German 20mm self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery shot at the air, and several Allied fighter-bombers volleyed into the sky. The camera shot was too fast. From the appearance, the Allies should be P40 fighters. The German troops in the canyon immediately concealed, and in the smoke, a PzkpfwIV tanks appear frequently. It looks like it should be a G type or an F2 type. It’s not like it used to be anymore. In the past, when we made movies, we used active-duty tanks to pretend to be German tanks. I remember that in the tank battle that year, the German Tiger King was played by the American M47 Patton tank, and the Allied Sherman was played by M24. Played by Xia Fei, the US military fights the US military in the film, which is really lively. Stauffenberg jumped into a VW82 military vehicle, but was overturned by the bullet and fell to the ground with serious injuries. This military car was the so-called Volkswagen launched by Hitler, and in order to produce the car, a Volkswagen factory was built. As a result, only a few thousand such cars entered the market. Most of the Volkswagen cars were called military cars. Entering thousands of households, it is the famous Beetle.
Then Major General Treskow, a member of the conspiracy, tried to assassinate Hitler with a bomb disguised in wine, but failed because of the fuze. Here's the problem, the assassination actually took place in March 1943, while Stauffenberg was wounded in North Africa on April 7. The two are actually not connected, but the film makes the audience feel that Stauffenberg was injured first. As for this part, there are some highlights, one is that Aunt Junker is on the screen. Not since the Battle of Britain in 1969 has this famous tri-law transport plane been seen in a movie. Hitler was on a Junkers 52 transport aircraft numbered D2600. The D2600 represents Hitler, just as AirForceONe represents the President of the United States. The Junker 52 was the most famous transport aircraft of the 1930s and was once a symbol of Nazi Germany's air power, though the slow plane suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Crete and later Stalingrad.
There is no need to repeat the other storylines. Stauffenberg risked his death to plant the bomb, but Hitler survived due to the following reasons. First, the meeting place was changed from a closed basement to a row of conference rooms with open windows. The energy of the explosion Most spread out. There are also shots in the film. The second is that due to time reasons, the meeting at 1 o'clock in the afternoon was half an hour earlier, and Stauffenberg did not have time to load the second bomb; Stauffenberg's security purse stumbled and moved it so that a thick oak table leg rested between Hitler and the bomb. Another reason is that Hitler was lying on the thick oak table looking at the map at the time, and the table also blocked a lot of energy.
After the explosion, Stauffenberg returned to Berlin without a hitch, but the coup d'état was lost because of Berlin's hesitation. The coup failed and almost all the people were executed.
The film explains the coup d'état very well. Many people say that most of the pages describe the coup d'état. It is true. The assassination of Hitler is only the beginning of the action. In fact, if the action is decisive and quick, and there are effective personnel, the coup will succeed even if Hitler is not dead. possible. We already know how the coup failed, but many people may not know much about history and have not straightened out the relationship between some characters in the play. Here are some of the main characters in the film.
First up are the members of the conspiracy:
Ludwig Baker, who was appointed Prime Minister of the new government after the successful coup d'état, Baker in the film is still very similar to Baker in history. He always wears a neat suit, even after the operation has started. Put on a military uniform and let the coup d'etat be a civilian act. Baker was a veteran general, but retired as early as 1938 for opposing the Nazis. Unlike the film, Baker's suicide was unsuccessful, and he was shot to death.
General Olbricht, who was the deputy commander of the Reserve Army, was the deputy of Fromm who killed Stauffenberg. He was an important member of the Valkyrie plan, but he fell short in the operation. Indecision, lost time.
Marshal Witzleben, the Marshal was called the commander-in-chief of the German Western Front as early as after the capture of France, but he retired due to illness in 1942. He was appointed as the supreme commander of the armed forces of the new government after the coup. In the film, he was finally interrogated as, It was him who was holding his pants with both hands. In order to humiliate the members of the conspiracy, he was stripped of his military uniform and his trouser belts during his trial.
Major General Tresko, who carried out the first assassination in the film, contacted Stauffenberg. Before the operation, he was transferred to the Eastern Front as the Chief of Staff of Army Group Center. After the failed coup, he walked to the no-man's land on the front and committed suicide with a grenade.
Fromm, the commander-in-chief of the reserve army, contacted him by the conspiracy, but he hesitated. After the coup failed, he couldn't wait to kill Stauffenberg and others, but he also did not escape.
There are also many important figures, such as the famous Marshal Rommel, the fox of Africa. Before the coup, he was hit by an Allied plane on the western front and was seriously injured. As a result, the coup failed and he was forced to commit suicide.
Kluge, the commander-in-chief of Army Group Center, sympathized with the conspiracy group, but did not dare to resist Hitler. After the coup failed, although he expressed his loyalty to Hitler, he still took poison and committed suicide on his way back home.
Hitler's side:
Himmler, the head of the SS, originally planned to kill him and Hitler together. After the explosion, Himmler acted quickly and quickly found out the actions of the conspiracy. It needs to be explained here that the most important atrocity committed by Nazi Germany, the extermination of the Jews, was carried out at his behest.
Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, is in the film, confronted by the Berlin garrison battalion commander Major Reimer, who came to arrest him, and connected to Hitler's call, which he called the key to turning things around in the coup. Goebbels later poisoned his six children when the city broke down in Berlin, and then had the guards beat him and his wife to death.
Otto Remer, commander of the Berlin garrison battalion, commanded the only combat force in Berlin, the Berlin garrison battalion. Originally he was a small person, and it is puzzling that the conspiracy neither recruited him nor sent someone to take his place. Reimer is a typical soldier who knows nothing but obeys politics. Perhaps the conspiracy thought they could command him with orders, but Hitler lived to change all that.
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