I always tout the benefit of remembering history because I have faith in the well-known statement by Edmund Burke (1729-1797), "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Maybe this is why I find Stauffenberg's story the stuff of faith; his faith in Germany, his military, his comrades in arms, himself, and his Christianity. I see him as an unwitting savior of his country and, like Jesus, he finds himself embroiled in his plot and left holding the bag by his own cowardly, traitorous Judas, his co-conspirator, Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm, who would have his fellows arrested and condemned to death.
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