Time: Wed Feb 19 18:55:50 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA12418; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:33:43 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:33:26 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: The Lessons of Valkyrie Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >The Intelligence Journal >TIJNOV / spec. (edited) > >THE LESSONS OF VALKYRIE > > >LAST MONTH WE EXAMINED the Biblical position of sectarianism. This is the >requirement for believers in YAHSHUA to be separate from the world which >they daily watch growing evil teeth before their eyes. In times gone by, >misguided men, surrounded by evil, have sought to balance the odds with >independent action. The Jewish zealots rallied under Barabbas and later >with Simon bar Kochba to fight off the might of Rome, yet they failed. >Saladin and his Islamic Saracens tried to bludgeon their way out from under >the relentless assaults of the Catholic Crusaders, yet they too failed. In >more modern times, another such military resister to evil was Count Claus >von Stauffenberg, a colonel in Adolf Hitler’s inner circle, who led the >abortive attempt on the German dictator’s life at Rastenberg on July 20th >1944. >Von Stauffenberg’s motives were nationalistic. An honourable man, a fierce >patriot and a veteran of the gruelling Russian Front, von Stauffenberg had >been severely injured in a land-mine explosion which permanently damaged an >arm and an eye and removed him from further active military service. Von >Stauffenberg was returned to Berlin where he began work in the Logistics >Department of the Wehrmacht. He became responsible for the transfer of men >and supplies to the Eastern Front which Hitler was determined to use to >halt the growing power of the seemingly unstoppable Russian military >machine which threatened to continue its inexorable march right to Berlin. >During the course of his High Command duties, von Stauffenberg became aware >of Himmler and Heydrich’s Final Solution for the Jews. He’d already had >many an occasion to become familiar with the brutal policies of the >Schutz-Staffel (S.S.) of whose tactics and atrocities he was an outspoken >and virulent critic. One can only guess at the dilemma facing an honest >and patriotic man attempting to square his best endeavors for the ultimate >victory of Germany with his own common humanity. >The assassination plot, code-named Valkyrie, would most likely have never >become a reality but for the fact that von Stauffenberg, in discharging his >official duties, soon became acquainted with a great many other army and >naval officers who secretly harbored similar reservations about Hitler’s >sanity and ability to compel a successful conclusion to the war for >Germany. Among these dissenters, General Fromm held the key to marshaling >any support for the conspiracy among the military in and around Berlin. >It was a strange time indeed, a time when most astute German observers of >the war became aware for the first time that victory for the Reich was now >an impossibility. A few officers had already boldly but foolishly >approached Hitler, advising him that Germany’s position was untenable. The >Allies were mounting constant saturation bombing missions, crippling the >mighty industrial colossus of the Ruhr. America’s 8th Air Force was >dealing a savage blow to railroads, road links, bridges and air bases. The >Luftwaffe had already lost its superiority in the skies over Europe. >Surely now was the time to seek an honourable peace and armistice while >there still remained a Fatherland. >But Hitler was intransigent. He had witnessed the Allied treachery of the >Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW1 and now vowed there would be no >surrender. Those stalwart officers who had dared speak of trading with the >enemy were mostly relieved of their command and summarily executed for >treason. >The restlessness among the elite of the German Officer Corps finally >reached a point of critical mass. On July 20th 1944, von Stauffenberg >entered Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair underground complex at Rastenberg, East >Prussia, with a briefcase containing a British-made bomb and papers for a >meeting of the German High Command. Hitler was seated at the centre of the >long side of the table, his back to the door as the Count entered. On >Hitler’s immediate right, General Heusinger, Chief of Operations, General >Korten, Air Force Chief of Staff and Colonel Heinz Brandt, Heusinger’s >Chief of Staff, were seated. Field marshal Keitel took his place >immediately to the left of the Fuhrer, next to General Jodl. >There were eighteen other officers of the three services and the S.S. >standing around the table, but Goering and Himmler were not among them. >Valkyrie had been specifically designed to terminate the three top leaders >of the Reich, namely Hitler, Himmler and Göring. It was felt among the >conspirators that the power vacuum created by the untimely deaths of these >three would enable a successful coup to be accomplished followed by the >suing of peace with the British and American High Command. >On several occasions in the past, the conspirators had planned the deed >only to be thwarted by the absence of one of the Nazi protagonists. >Details of the conspiracy were beginning to leak into the German >intelligence community. Von Stauffenberg decided that the time had come to >act. >He placed the briefcase inconspicuously under the large conference table >and then pushed it with his foot towards Hitler who was engrossed in a >report given by Heusinger on a recent Russian breakthrough on the Eastern >Front. Von Stauffenberg left the room soon after on the pretext of making >a telephone call as the acid chewed through the timing wire in his >briefcase. >No-one noticed von Stauffenberg leave except perhaps for Heusinger’s aide, >Colonel Brandt. Brandt was so engrossed in his general’s report that he >leaned over to take a better look at the map. In so doing his leg brushed >von Stauffenberg’s bothersome briefcase beneath the table. Brandt >distractedly looked around and then reached down and moved the briefcase >away from Hitler and behind the solid support of the conference table. >This action probably saved Hitler’s life. It cost Brandt his. >Ironically Brandt was the same officer who had agreed, the year before on >March 13th, to take ‘a couple of bottles of brandy’ on board the Fuhrer’s >plane, packed in a carton which actually contained an identical bomb to >that which now sat beneath the table not three feet from where Brandt was >studiously listening to his superior officer. (The plane bomb had failed >to detonate en route from Smolensk to Rastenberg, much to the consternation >of a previous circle of conspirators). >At 12:42pm, the bomb exploded. Von Stauffenberg quickly left Rastenberg >during the commotion which followed and hours later, when he anxiously >called his contact, Schlabrendorff, in Berlin, he learned with horror that >Hitler had miraculously survived the assassination. The Fuhrer had emerged >from the Wolf’s Lair, his face blackened and his hair smoking like some >dervish from Gehenna, vowing dire vengeance on the traitors responsible. At >1am the following morning Hitler went on national radio to reassure the >German people that he was still alive. Darkly he thundered that every >conspirator who had dared to threaten the leadership of the sacred Reich >would be hunted down and brought to savage justice. >General Fromm, whose involvement in the conspiracy had been courted by von >Stauffenberg from the outset (but who had never committed himself to >Valkyrie), took it upon himself to arrest von Stauffenberg and four others. > Although Fromm had known about the plot for months, leaks had come to the >attention of Heinrich Himmler and historians now agree that Fromm’s actions >in arresting von Stauffenberg stemmed from his treacherous desire to curry >favour with Himmler as ‘the officer who had put down the revolt’ and thus >move the suspicion of involvement away from himself. Ironically Fromm’s >treachery would be in vain as he himself was sentenced to death and later >hanged for collaboration in the conspiracy. >In a disgusting display of ‘kangaroo justice’, Fromm passed a summary >sentence of death on officers von Stauffenberg, Olbricht, Häften, Mertz and >Beck and led them down into the courtyard of the complex housing his >military quarters. Eye-witnesses say there was much tumult and shouting >that night, mostly by the guards, who were in a hurry because of the danger >of a bombing attack by the British RAF who had been mercilessly pounding >Berlin for months. >In the dim rays of the blackout-hooded headlights of an Army car, von >Stauffenberg and his conspirators faced the firing squad ramrod straight. >As the command to fire was barked into an unforgiving night, von >Stauffenberg and his friends fell in a hail of bullets crying, "Long live >our sacred Germany!" >Hitler was cheated by von Stauffenberg’s hasty dispatch and ranted >incoherently for hours. He finally appointed Ronald Freisler president of >the People’s Court. Freisler’s mandate from the Führer was to execute >cruel justice on the wide ring of collaborators who were arrested >frantically attempting to escape Himmler’s Gestapo and S.S., who were >ruthlessly tracking down every suspicious lead. Many of the conspirators >were betrayed by fellow plotters who were promised immunity in return for >information only to find themselves summarily led into the dock. Prisoners >were stripped and then given ill-fitting trousers and smocks so that the >ever-present film cameras could record the pathetic and shambling spectacle >of these ‘traitors’ to Germany. >Field marshal von Witzleben looked haggard as he entered the dock of the >infamous People’s Court. The once proud officer looked like a broken old >man. His false teeth had been taken from him and, as he stood in the dock, >badgered unmercifully by the venomous Freisler, he kept grasping at his >trousers to keep them from falling down. >"You dirty old man," Freisler shouted at him. "Why do you keep fiddling >with your trousers?" >Although the accused knew their fate was sealed, yet they behaved with a >superb dignity and courage despite Freisler’s ceaseless efforts to degrade >and demean them. Young Count Peter Yorck, a cousin of von Stauffenberg, >was perhaps the bravest, answering the most insulting questions quietly and >never attempting to hide his contempt for National Socialism. >"Why didn’t you join the Party?" Freisler hissed at him. >"Because I am not and never could be a Nazi," the count replied. >All that summer, fall and winter - and into the new year of 1945 - the >grisly People’s Court sat in session and the death sentences were meted out >until finally an American bomb fell directly on the courthouse on the >morning of February 3rd 1945, killing Judge Freisler and destroying the >records of most of the accused who still survived. Schlabrendorff was one >who thus escaped with his life - one of the very few conspirators on whom >fortune smiled - being eventually liberated from the Gestapo’s clutches by >American troops in the Tyrol. >The Gestapo records survive to this day and list 7,000 arrests and the >final death toll of the conspirators of Valkyrie as 4,980. Hitler had >ordered that the condemned be treated as cattle and so most were slowly >strangled from butchers’ hooks with piano wire and the executions filmed by >order of propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels. This film was later shown to >Army audiences as an example of the Reich’s zero tolerance for treachery. >The film was soon withdrawn however as cadets and soldiers alike walked out >of the viewings in disgust. >It is ironic and tragic to note that the ultimate doom of Valkyrie was much >less brought about by von Stauffenberg’s inability to kill Adolf Hitler as >it was through the failure of the conspirators to identify the simple fact >that a spiritual problem requires a spiritual solution. And thus herein >lies the lesson we all must learn concerning the predictable path of >tyranny which is as old as the earth itself. Nazism, Communism and >Illuminism in recent years have each succeeded because of one reason. The >salt of the earth had lost its savour and good men did nothing as the evil >grew around them (Matt 5:13). Usually the conditions propagating this >inaction stemmed largely from an affluent, comfortable and wealthy society >which toadied in the face of wickedness and gave its assent to demonic >plots by remaining silent. Today our earth has once again descended into >the same sightless, aspiritual apathy, ever driven to destruction by those >tasteless, moronic spirits of treason, greed, apostasy, immorality and >murder. Nobody blinked as we traveled that sorry road before WW1, WW2 and >Vietnam and, ashamed as we are to say it, very few are blinking today at >the same shameful manoeuvring playing out before our eyes. >What can truly be done as the hours of darkness come upon us once again? >History records that those men and women of YHWH in bygone times responded >according to the wishes of YHWH. When the Jewish prophet Habakkuk watched >helplessly as the Babylonian hordes surrounded Jerusalem, poised to sack >the holy city, his action was to pray. Prayer to the unprayerful is >insanity incarnate, yet Habbakuk’s confession was that his salvation lay >not in the might of his own arm, but in seeking the mercy of the Mighty >YHWH who curries the plots and schemes of wicked nations as His holy and >inestimable Will (Hab 3:17-19). >Who can ever change the course of the Lord’s Will? Was it not always >through prayer and supplication to the Almighty that the fickle courses of >history were swayed? >It was righteousness which saved Lot from Sodom and Gomorrah. It was >righteousness which delivered Noah and his family from the Flood, Daniel >from the lion’s den, the apostle Paul from the clutches of the Pharisaic >Jews and the prophet Elisha from the hordes of the Syrians (2 Kings >6:15-18). In each case, these intrepid believers attained a separateness >and a sanctity before evil which YHWH honoured and thus He delivered them. >In the case of the three Jewish courtesans brought before King >Nebuchadnezzar for refusing to worship the infamous golden image, Shadrach, >Meshach and Abednego made it abundantly clear that YHWH would save them >from the furnace, yet even if He did not, they still would not bow down >before evil. >Passive resistance through a separation from evil (Jam 1:27). A calm and >clear declaration that enough is enough. Prayer for action and then we >watch as YHWH moves. >The invisible Mighty One of Israel grants nations the leaders they deserve. > Israel deserved King Saul. Israel deserved King Ahab. Today America >deserves Bill and Hillary Clinton. Britain deserves the EU and the vapid, >forgettable ‘leaders’ of her European and domestic parliaments. What could >it ever profit the world if these errant and unfortunate leaders were >removed? Would the nations of the earth forget their wickedness and return >to the righteous ways of YHWH? >Hardly. >Thus the reason for the coming storm. YHWH fully intends to place the >entire planet in such a terrifying predicament that repentance will be >forced and thus His chosen shall be saved for eternity. The Almighty knows >the true nature of man far better than we. He knows that man does not >voluntarily choose the ways of righteousness. >The ways of YHWH. >There is a lesson that will be learned by the generations living today and >it will be the hardest of all the lessons of history. This lesson is >learning repentance and a turning away from our personal and national sin. >It’s a lesson that will either be learned the easy way or suffered the hard >way. You see, the war with Germany did end in 1945, but the war with >global evil continues to this day and it is a war, the Bible predicts, >which only YAHSHUA will finish for ever in the very near future at His >return. The Bible foreshadowed the coming classic conflict of good versus >evil and the Bible has inscribed its epitaph. Lucifer and his minions will >lose. >Von Stauffenberg only saw Hitler, the man, and his mistake was believing >that the evil would end with the man. I wonder what Claus would make of >his fascist and sold-out ‘sacred’ Germany if he were alive to witness it >today. > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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