So for this weeks WWII movie I watched Valkyrie.
So in the beginning Stauffenberg is in the middle of an air raid and loses his right/left hand and the ring and pinky fingers and the other hand and one eye. After this Stauffenberg is chosen by Olbricht to be part of the German resistance and is included in a plan to assassinate Hitler and Himmler. He wants to use an operation called Valkyrie which summons the reserve army but only Fromm can summon them. So Fromm is brought into the assassination plot but he doesn't want to have anything to do with it. Then so the operation can be carried out Stauffenberg takes operation Valkyrie to Hitler because he has to sign it, he has to sign his own death plan (but he doesn't know that). Hitler doesn't even read it, which I'm assuming was the plan, and he signs it. An attempt is planned at Hitler's bunker but they had to abort because Himmler wasn't there. However the reserve army was still called to attention by Olbricht. The reserve army thinks this is just training but Fromm is furious. Fromm told Olbricht that if he ever did that again that he would have him arrested. Awhile later another meeting is held with Hitler and Himmler but it's not being held in Hitler's bunker like it should be, it's being held in a conference room. So Stauffenberg puts the set bomb in his briefcase, has a guy come in and tell him he has "a phone call", and leaves. Then the bomb goes off and everyone thinks Hitler is dead. So the reserve army is called again and put into action arresting government officials. Stauffenberg and a couple other men start taking over the government in Berlin. By then rumors are circulating that Hitler survived but Stauffenberg refuses to believe them because "he saw the blast, he was there". The reserve army is then sent to arrest Goebbels but Goebbels gets Hitler on the phone and the head of the reserve army realizes he's doing what he's supposed to be stopping. Everything pretty much derails from there. Fromm orders the conspirators to death being shot one by one. When Stauffenberg is up this guy (who I can't remember the name of but always seemed really nervous about what's going on) runs in front of him so he can sacrifice himself before Stauffenberg. Then Stauffenberg is shot in the middle of yelling "long live sacred Germany". The end.
Truthfully I found it hard to keep track of who was who in this movie but I still thought it was a pretty good representation of what happened.
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