Valkyrie, Directed By Tom Cruise

Gilles Maurice Aguehounde
US History Since 1877
March 13, 2015

Valkyrie by Tom Cruise (2008) Valkyrie is an American-German historical film about the plot to kill Hitler in the year of 1944. It was directed by Bryan Singer for the American Studio United Artists Ceremony and written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander. Bryan Singer is a film director, writer and producer born on September 17, 1965 (49 years old) in New York City, New York, US. This movie has been released in December 25, 2008. It’s referred to the chapter of the World War II. Most of the fact in this film is true about the secret in Germany. One of the key plotters is the famous film stars Tom Cruise. In this movie, he played as the Colonel Von Stauffenberg.
This operation even approved by Adolf Hitler and it was that if one day, a problem of communication between the Nazi and Hitler happened because of something like a rebellion or allied bombing German factories or cities resulting in a breakdown in law and order. Hitler didn’t want to end up the war. The Major Claus von Stauffenberg (played by Tom Cruise) was now elected as the leader of the group which was opposed to the Nazy manifestation and rule. In 1942, he decided then to kill Adolf Hitler because Hitler was really inhumane. He executed a lot of Jewish People. It was his time to die and make a change for Germany. Stauffenberg made a group with other person who were in agreement with his decisions. It was Wilhelm Canaris, Carl Goerdeler, Julius Leber, Ulrich Hassell, Hans Oster, Peter von Wartenburg, Henning von Tresckow, Friedrich Olbricht, Werner von Haeften, Fabian Schlabrendorft, Ludwig Beck and Erwin von Witzleben. They were members of the Reserve Army, including few of the Kreisau Circle. They decided together to follow the plan of the major Stauffenberg and modify the operation Valkyrie, so it can be easy to assassinate the general Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler. After the plan established, some troops went in Berlin to securing the building of the government, the telephones, signal and ration station. Hitler’s death was the
Late in the afternoon, exactly at 19.00 Hitler sent a message by a state radio to address to the people of Nazi Germany that he was still alive. Hitler just got badly hit on his right hand and four of his men got killed. The plan has failed, and Stauffenberg was reported dead after yelling “Long live holy Germany”. Few months later, the others members of Stauffengers complot and other conspirators got executed too on August 1944 to 1945 at the Plotzensee Prison. An estimation of five thousand German executed during this time by Adolf Hitler. Some leaders were hung and filmed while they were dying slowly as order of Hitler to show to the next one who want to kill him. The last survivor of this plot about Operation Valkyrie was Ewald-Heinrich Von Kleist-Schmenzin. He died in March 2013 at