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Article: Book burnishes reputation of Valkyrie conspirators
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- Washington Jewish Week
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- July 2, 2009
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Book burnishes reputation of Valkyrie conspirators Valkyrie: The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler By Its Last Member by Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager. New York: Knopf, 2009. 224 pp. $24.95.
AsI make it a habit not to see movies zVabout Nazis or those starring Tom Cruise, I missed last year's Valkyrie, which sat at the intersection of those two genres. But that is not the only reason why the film, which gave the big-screen hero treat- ment to Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, made me uneasy.
Stauffenberg, who detonated the bomb that failed to kill Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, and paid for it with his life, undoubtedly possessed some of the key characteristics of a hero: He was brave and he ...