A blog dedicated to Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, architect of the July 20th plot against Hitler and all-around interesting guy. Hard not to love people who try to blow up Hitler, y'know.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Rewatching Valkyrie after getting the special edition (BONUS FEATURES) off of Amazon. Flood of Stauffenberg posts likely imminent.
For the Followers-
What would you guys like to see more of on this blog? As it is, I’m running out of pictures quite quickly, and I’m unsure of what sort of media to start posting in its place. Would y’all like more movie or book reviews, historical text posts like background information, more about the other July 20th conspirators, charts, Valkyrie plot details, more on Germany or the Reich in general…?
Please, recommmend anything and everything you’d like to see. Except fluffy kittens. I like them as much as you do but they’re not relevant to the German military resistance. Unless they’re wearing little eyepatches.
So, what do you want on Everything Claus von Stauffenberg?
Stauffenberg’s office at the Benderblock, present day.
Stauffenbergstrassen.
(If that’s fail-German I apologize.)
Stauffenberg Fakten
- He was certified as an English translator, in addition to knowing a host of other languages.
- Poetry had a significant effect on his intellectual development and life. In addition to his familiarity with Stefan George, his mother was close friends with Rilke.
- After his grievous wounds in North Africa, he refused to take morphine and other pain medications for fear of becoming addicted.
- This fact was intentionally left out of 2008’s Valkyrie because, according to one of the filmmakers, audiences would have thought it a ‘contrivance for a Tom Cruise movie.’
- In other words, Stauffenberg was being more BA than Hollywood was prepared to recognize.
Santa Claus (von Stauffenberg.) New icon for the season.
Frohe Weihnachten!
The Stauffenberg brothers in 1917. From left to right, Alexander, Berthold, Claus.
Here is the first post I’ve made in which y’all get to see my lack of artistic talent.
I feel like I need to explain the story behind this one. OK, so I was here, browsing Tumblr one day, when I came across this post that read something along the lines of “What do you call a really smart-aleck assassin? Like, they kill somebody and then they’re all ‘You just got asSASSinated!’?” And the post also had a GIF of Hawkeye attached to it, but I think that’s irrelevant here.
Anyway, I read the word ‘assassin’, and you-know-who popped into my head, and I sat down and drew this. Tumblr, you are to blame.
