Valkyrie
This movie starts out with Tom Cruise getting his arm shot off and his eye taken out from enemy air plane fire. Tom Cruise is a German soldier how gets promoted to be a colonel in WWII and plays the part Claus Von Stauffenberg in the movie Valkyrie that is based on a true story. He gets a glass eye and gets by with one hand and he recieved a metal because he was wounded and gave it to a soldier that was in a hospital bed. This is the time that he gets promoted to be colonel of the German army.
He was part of an anti - Hitler group that tries to assassinate Hitler towards the end of the movie. The group figures out where Hitler is going to be and they send Claus Von Stauffenberg and his assisstant with him to the metting and Stauffenberg cuts himself shaving so he has to change his shirt at the metting and actually activates the bomb. The only problem is that they thought it was going to be in a different building so the explosion could expand because the one they thought the metting was going to be in was all cement and would hold alot of pressure making the explosion stay in the building killing everyone in it.
When the explosion went off Stauffenberg was sure that Hitler was dead so they cut all communications and Stauffenberg ordered the German army to arrest all the top people in the Nazi party. The only problem was that the person that drove them in and out of the compound knew they set off the explosion and Hilter didn't died he only got a few burns and bruises. Hitler called an army officer and told him he was still alive and to capture all the people that did this and let my people go.
Stauffenberg and all the people that were with him were captured and either hung or shot. Stauffenberg had his family leave at the beginning of the movie so they wouldn't get caught but they never seen him again. Their were tons of plots to kill Hitler but all of them failed. When the Russians invaded Berlin Hitler didn't want to get caught and tortured so he commited suicide with his new wife.
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