1/19/15
Period 10
Movie Review Draft
Valkyrie Valkyrie is an admirable movie based off of true events of the Valkyrie operation which was created to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The leader of this conspiracy was
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. Stauffenberg was an extremely patriotic and courageous man; he believed it was up to him to save society from the critical epidemic known as the Nazi organization . He believed in German freedom and in the end he died trying to withhold it. In early 1943, Stauffenberg served with the 10th Panzer Division in Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa Corps. On
April 7, 1943, he was severly wounded at Sebkhet en Noual, when Allied fighters strafed his vehicle. He lost his left eye, right hand, and last two fingers of his left …show more content…
People still at the camp had been making rumors about Hitler but Stauffenburg just ignored them and explained to everyone that the rumors were fake, The soldier reported to Major Remer and Remer cancels the operation in Berlin and is ordered to arrest the men in charge of this conspiracy.
Col Stauffenburg here's everything that people are saying about Hitler still being alive but he doesn't think anything of it because he is sure that Hitler is dead because he saw the blast go off.
The reserve and SS Officers went to the resistance headquarters and they came to arrest Quirnheim, Olbricht, Haften, Beck and Stauffenburg. They all tried to escape and get into a shootout with SS officers. Col. Stauffenburg is hit and the rest of the men are caught.
General Fromm sentenced them all to death. General Beck comited suciside and Goerdeler was executed by hanging.
The last men alive were next to be excuted. Olbricht and Quirnheim were shot and killed by the firing squad then it was Col. Stauffenberg's turn to be executed.Haeften steps in front of Stauffenburg and takes the 3rd round of shots.
The firing squad reloads and right before they fire the last shots,