Comments | panzerpenguin: 20th July 1944 - the last of a nobler Germany

panzerpenguin

20th July 1944 - the last of a nobler Germany

Jul 20, 2007 16:52

Only just realised the date, one close to my heart...63 years ago today the last, and most nearly successful, attempt on Hitler's life took place - carried out by the one available man who was both able to get close enough to the tyrant and willing to kill him. Unfortunately of course, he was missing one eye and most of his fingers (a crippled war ( Read more... )

widerstand, hitler

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es0terika July 20 2007, 19:51:48 UTC

Was going to make a similar post but you beat me to it, but yes, if only there had been more men such as the heroic Count and his comrades in Germany at the time perhaps things would have been very different for Hitler and his cronies.
Have you heard about the film they're making about him?, weirdly staring Tom Cruise...
You mentioned the involvement of your great grandfather, if this is true do you mind elaborating on his involvement?

Did you manage to hear the sample I left you a link to a while ago?

panzerpenguin July 27 2007, 12:45:14 UTC

Sadly I didn't manage to get the zep sample, and not for want of trying...I really want to do a track about the 'First Blitz', which hit my home county of Kent terribly hard (by the standards of WW1 strategic bombing). The idea of being bombed from the air (in an era when the very idea of being bombed from the air is still 'H G Wells stuff') by a vast, silent hydrogen dirigible really chills me...the idea of serving in one, dependent on bottled oxygen and multiple layers of thick clothing, with the continual prospect of a hideous inescapable death if the hydrogen went up (one was even destroyed by lightning during the war) even more so ( ... )

es0terika July 27 2007, 21:57:54 UTC

Yeah I couldn't get it to work either, shame really as its probably the perfect thing for what you're after ( ... )

knirirr July 20 2007, 20:51:12 UTC

A great pity that they missed the blackguard.
It reminds me that I keep meaning to recommend this to you.

panzerpenguin July 27 2007, 12:51:11 UTC

Most intriguing - I'd have gone back earlier and tried to fix things before WW1 myself....

knirirr July 27 2007, 12:57:11 UTC

Unfortunately, in this book the date of travel is not under the control of the travellers.
I would want to try going back to just before the Franco Prussian war. If one could make the necessary corrections then it would probably do the trick.

27.08.07 dyddgu August 27 2007, 17:47:27 UTC

Hiya
don't know if you'll get this, but there is to be a half-hour documentary on at 8.30 tonight about WWII re-enactment in the UK, with the rather worrying implication that OMG EVERYONE IS NAZIS AND IT SHOULD BE BANNED on tonight, BBC 1 :-/