Valkyrie By Bryan Singer: Film Analysis

The film, Valkyrie, directed by Bryan Singer, was released in 2008. It deals with events in Germany from 1943-44. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg was introduced as the main conspirator in the Valkyrie plot to kill Adolf Hitler. The film’s exploration of von Stauffenberg’s character and his motives were limited and substantially inaccurate, mostly altered to make him appear more noble than he really was. The depictions of the short-term impacts of the plot were largely accurate, including the executions of the conspirators, while, the long-term impacts, involving Hitler’s declining health and the outcome of the war weren’t depicted in the film.

Originally, Valkyrie was an emergency plan created by Hitler to use the Reserve Army to prevent any civil disruption in emergency situations including Hitler’s death, an invasion or a labourer’s protest. In the event of an emergency situation, Hitler designed the
Though, von Stauffenberg was a convinced Catholic but didn’t openly identify as one. In protest, however, he attended church as the Nazis began to oppress the clergy . Von Stauffenberg, however, wasn’t always against the Nazi regime; in fact, he supported the Nazis’ promise of spiritual renewal. Being of Swabian nobility, this was particularly special to him. As parliamentary democracy wasn’t succeeding in Germany, von Stauffenberg saw the hope that the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi party) planned to bring to Germany. Initially, he was an anti-Semite himself and a supporter of the regime, although, didn’t approve of the mass executions of the Jews. The film shows von Stauffenberg opposing Hitler and the regime. It appears to the audience that he was always against Hitler and the Nazi ideologies. Therefore, the film portrayed von Stauffenberg’s character falsely in some parts maybe to make the character more appealing to a vast