“I know that he who will act will go down in German history as a traitor; but he who can and does not, will be a traitor to his own conscience.”Â
 Claus von Stauffenberg
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I wonder how the German school books and historians treat Col. von Stauffenberg and others, and Cardinal von Galen, who attempted to save their homeland? Field Marshall Rommel was so popular that his involvement in an assassination attempt was kept secret. There is a German army base named after him.
I’ve read that most young Germans have never heard of the WWI ace Baron von Richthofen
I wonder how the present German school books and historians treat Col. von Stauffenberg and others, Cardinal von Galen, who all by different means attempted to save their homeland? Field Marshall Rommel was so popular that his involvement in an assassination attempt was kept secret. There is a German army base named after him.
I’ve read that most young Germans have never heard of the WWI ace Baron von Richthofen