tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post115335408168638853..comments2023-06-29T13:25:30.567+02:00Comments on The Editrix' Roncesvalles: 'Orderly, champers! The swine is dead!'The_Editrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07529769143608862966noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-1165213018617747752006-12-04T07:16:00.000+01:002006-12-04T07:16:00.000+01:00My Son in Law is a decendant of this family. His ...My Son in Law is a decendant of this family. His Grandparents are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary. I would be so happy if I could present them with a photograph of his Uncle. If it is possible for a good size digital file of this photo to be e-mailed to me at ldpharmt@telus.net I would be thrilled. <BR/><BR/>Thanks so muchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-1153506676419094282006-07-21T20:31:00.000+02:002006-07-21T20:31:00.000+02:00I wanted to add that, although I personally would ...I wanted to add that, although I personally would probably have attempted an assassination much earlier in the game, I am notorious for acting on instinct and without thinking things out. Most of the decent actions of my life have been instinctive, as a matter of fact, but I have also managed some spectacular screwups. In this case, I can see both sides of the issue. While I understand the conspirators' hesitancy as logical and in some ways even moral, I think that there are times when peasants with pitchforks and torches are the only people who really understand how to deal with monsters. We are, after all, far more likely to come in contact with them than the denizens of the schloss...and we know that they cannot be reasoned with and they will not change--they have to be pinned through the heart and ignited...and sometimes, almost anything will do to fill the vacuum left by a dead monster. <BR/><BR/>I do NOT, however, think this should be a time for self loathing, but a time for sorrow and contrition and prayer for the dead, as well as prayer that we will respond properly and in timely fashion when our own crisis ripens--because each of us will have one, and hopefully it will be more private and of less consequence to others.romanrebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10208404600594430883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-1153484264796154862006-07-21T14:17:00.000+02:002006-07-21T14:17:00.000+02:00As the editrix knows, Stauffenberg is one of my al...As the editrix knows, Stauffenberg is one of my all-time heroes. I am thoroughly enjoying the book "Secret Germany" regarding his life and the conspiracy plot. Against all odds, my Texan daughter spent July 20 in Nuremberg...<BR/>As to Germans as conspirators, allow me to indulge in the most crass stereotyping and opine that the only reason y'all can't conspire is that you can't WHISPER. :) <BR/><BR/>In regard to the opinions of men like Churchill and Roosevelt, the fact that they are frequently portrayed as good men comes about by virtue of the fact that they are naturally compared with Hitler, and because biographies are written by the victors. Much of the politics surrounding the war is naturally eclipsed by the Holocaust. The Holocaust is so horrible in and of itself that most of us never get around to thinking about much else regarding that conflict. It would be interesting to see how creative the biographers would have to be if Hitler had not directed so much of his efforts toward genocide. At any rate, it's unrealistic to expect anything good from Churchill. He simply was not a good man. Neither he, nor Roosevelt, were likely to applaud anything, or cooperate with anything, that wasn't in their own very selfish political interest. No, they needed British and American military victories. A successful coup would have pretty much broken their hearts...<BR/><BR/>Germany is in no way the only country with a need to drain the cup of humility to the bloody dregs. <BR/><BR/>Thanks, as always, Editrix for a poignant and provocative blog entry. I light a candle for Stauffenberg, who was, at least, a good Catholic even if an unsuccessful assassin.romanrebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10208404600594430883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-1153432620931292342006-07-20T23:57:00.000+02:002006-07-20T23:57:00.000+02:00I am not quite so optimistic.A successful assassin...I am not quite so optimistic.<BR/><BR/>A successful assassination would have most likely created a new "stab-in-the-back legend". I guess it was the best for the German psyche to drain this self-served cup to the dregs.<BR/><BR/>About how others might have judged Germany, well... Churchill, for example, refused to talk to the plotters. A putsch was not in the interest of the Allies for whatever reasons.<BR/><BR/>I, as a German, am once again baffled at the lack of common sense of my people. There was this nasty dictator and his nasty followership and those fucking dumb idealists, diplomats, pastors, academics, what the hell, were actually discussing fucking TYRANNICIDE and let a few isolated officers, who were hoping for a freak chance of getting close enough to Hitler, do the dirty work.<BR/><BR/>I'd have a hard time thinking of anything more sad and pathetic than that lonely man Stauffenberg with his one eye and only three fingers fusing that bomb.<BR/><BR/>And for that, he is still considered a traitor even nowadays by a considerable number of Germans in spite of all the politically correct bullshit and decreed commemoration.<BR/><BR/>Ask me tomorrow whether I like to be German. On days like this, I don't.The_Editrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529769143608862966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18369530.post-1153418674358996232006-07-20T20:04:00.000+02:002006-07-20T20:04:00.000+02:00These retrospectives at high-ranking Nazis leave m...These retrospectives at high-ranking Nazis leave me with whole ranges of feelings: guilt, curiosity, pretended indifference.<BR/><BR/>If Colonel Brandt hadn't moved the notecase, and if Germans had succeeded in eliminating their own Fuhrer, I wonder how that would have altered the German national psyche and other nations' attitudes toward Germany. (Presumably for the better.)Jeremayakovkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00741574721409282988noreply@blogger.com