Valkyrie: German resistance to Hitler (with quotations)

What would you do when your country is committing terrible crimes, so enormous that her defeat would be catastrophic?

Tresckow, Oster, Stauffenberg, Bonhoeffer, and others made their choice, which was not easy for them.

As Wilhelm Canaris puts it, "Should Hitler win, this will certainly be the end of us, and also the end of the Germany as we love it and desire it to be. And if Hitler loses, this will also be the end of Germany, and of our selves too for having failed to get rid of him - if indeed we do fail... Whatever we do inevitably leads to national self-destruction. The average general can never be expected to grasp this, which means that even before our defeat of Hitler we ourselves will die, abandoned by all the world."

It was a lonely struggle.

(music: J.S. Bach, Mass in B minor )

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[pierrotsvideo]

I think you need to distinguish between these Germans who recognized evils of Nazism and the right wing German groups. I would hope extreme nationalism such as to condemn the entire people on the basis of their nationality lose ground in the wake of Nazi tragedy.

[pierrotsvideo]

i'd like to make more extended version.

any comment would be very welcome.

if you could post any quotes (even better if sourced) , it'd be much appreciated.

[colleenschwab]

thank you for making this video, hitlers reign has tainted the german people for a lifetime, and theres no one to speak for the germans who opposed hitler during that time.

[vahidrezaramezani]

one of the best videos on utube,

[56Pegasus]

I am proud to be of German Hertage. All those of the German Resistance et al are my heroes and more. I am second generation American born of German Heritage. Thank you, Richard Nagel

[DrHeinersSanatorium]

Excellent video, but it is a single voice in the wilderness. Hollywood and the main-stream media have found it profitable to exploit German (and Muslim) evil commercially. As Germans we have no right to be "good".

[PynkWalkr]

There is nothing more disappointing and enraging than to see someone equate Nazi Germany to all of Germany during the Second World War. The noble actions of the German Resistance was like a single blossoming flower in the desolate field of rampant ignobility that was Hitler's regime.

Let us remember it as such.

[potchieng]

GERMAN HEROES..

[vonMohl]

THANK YOU!

[barsakus]

@pierrotsvideo Very well said.

[Luilekkerlandful]

I am a Pole, and always feel touched when I think of those noble German individuals, who had ingrained such a profound sense of justice and honour.. They are the ones who, in a sense, saved the memory of Germans of this horrible time, having courage and this innate sense of uprightness to oppose the monsters... Remember them.

[guitar19904]

@gigie555

when i say horrid i mean depressing. sorry for the confusion.

somthing more uplifting would be appropriate

[gigie555]

@guitar19904

Bach...horrid? What would you consider appropriate?

[pammyoneto]

@futuramark You idiot, Hitler is remembered for being a mass murderer.