Monday, January 24, 2011

Valkyrie

I won't try giving a basic synopsis of the film, instead I provide a link to the Wikipedia article concerning the real life assassination attempt on Hitler that the film is based upon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Valkyrie

This film very accurate and historically represents the deep seated motives of all the individuals involved in the German Resistance against the Nazi's.  Being a history buff myself I was curious to see just what they would do in the film to cover the attempt on Hitler's life by Col. Stauffenberg.  I was surprised to see a scene involving a little known assassination attempt on Hitler in which one of the Eastern Front commanders secreted a bomb into a fake bottle of liquor and then asked one of the men flying with Hitler to deliver the bottles of liquor to another officer in Berlin.  This assassination failed supposedly due to a slowing of the chemical trigger on the bomb due to the high altitude the plane was flying at.  I also very much like that the director/writers started the film off in German and then transitioning to English.  This film is riveting for those who enjoy history and historically accurate films about real events.  I highly recommend this film for anyone who wants to look back at the German involvement in WWII and say that every German was a Nazi.  This film proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was not true.

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