Imagine if Stauffenberg was like: "My Führer, can you hold this briefcase for a second?" and then started running like an idiot. That would've worked 100%!
The three things instrumental for Hitler surviving the explosion were 1. Stauffenberg did not activate both bombs just one. 2. The explosion happened in a wooden building with a open window, minimizing the intensity of the explosion. Instead of a concrete walled room, where the explosive energy would have been contained in the room instead of being ventilated. 3. The briefcase containing the explosive were moved to the other side of the table leg helping she is Hitler from the explosion. If 2 of these actions did not happen Hitler would have either died in the explosion or have been fatally injured.
Every time I watch this movie or read the history of these events I'm left bewildered at how a group of administratively and organizationally talented officers, who couldn't help but know that they'd all die if the plot failed, would act so timidly once the coup attempt began. Aside from Stauffenberg himself almost everyone else dithered, hesitated, and wasted critical time waiting for direction and/or confirmation. The chances of the plot succeeding were never high, but the failure of the majority of the plotters to act decisively ensured it's failure.
In the series 'Hitler's Henchmen' related to the episode Freisler 'The hanging Judge' an army officer who knew Stauffenberg and the plotters but wasn't involved in the plot, said he believed Stauffenberg was the only capable individual to carry out the plot to the end since in his own words "The old cavalry generals who took part were sorry figures."
Although they were military, the problem is they weren't assassins. Imagine it's wartime and you're a high-level military officer who has decided to use a bomb to assassinate your insane, xenophobic leader and the rest of your fellow military people are also insane and xenophobic. You'd be nervous and want to escape without getting caught, and then they change the meeting location at the last minute which totally throws you off.
The bomb was not powerful enough to do the job because the meeting was moved to a conference room with windows. Had it exploded in the original location the meeting was supposed to take place ( inside the bunker) Hitler would have been killed and history would have unfolded quite differently.
The biggest flaw was the conspirators were counting on the meeting taking place inside the reinforced bunker, where the overpressure from the explosion likely would have killed everyone in the room. Unfortunately the meeting was moved to another building with open windows. With as paranoid as Hitler was becoming, I am surprised that all briefcases were not searched when entering the Wolf's Lair compound. It would have been difficult to explain why 2 briefcases contained explosives.
A big problem was that lots of Germans still supported Hitler at this point. Had the plot succeeded, we may have ended up with another situation similar to the end of WW1. Half of Germany feeling like they didn’t loose on the battlefield but once again got stabbed in the back by traitors. Since the war was already lost at this point, the plotters probably would’ve been better off just using their command influence to undermine Nazi policy anyway they could
The Allies had considered assassinating Hitler but with the war turning against Germany, it was thought better that Hitler himself was undermining Germany faster then the Allies could and also the Allies wanted unconditional surrender from Germany.
During this scene, Hitler is being briefed on The Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration. This was the most successful and efficient operation on WW2 resulting in the destruction of Germany’s Army Group Center- 400,000 Germans killed in a month. Eighteen German generals were killed or captured. Truly an extraordinary operation executed with precision and scale never to be seen again (4 million Soviet troops).
31 of 47 German divisional commanders facing Bagration by the end of Operation Bagration were either killed, captured or missing, destroying 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre. It was the biggest German defeat in German military history and ripped the heart out of the German armies on the Eastern Front, taking the Soviet armies to the gates of Warsaw and borders of East Prussia by the end of August 1944.
@@joshuagrover795 probably one of my "favorite" battles of all time in just how damn brutal it was. We saw the Germans behave as the Soviets did in 1941, and the Soviets as the Germans of 1941. I have a deep fascination with those battles that "rip the heart out" as you said. I remember that wording from a documentary actually.
It's hard to imagine the stress Stauffenberg must have been under. Walking around with a live bomb. Going to the conference hut and not the bunker ( I assume he had not been there before and did not know the layout). Then if the bomb detonates, he still has to make it out of the Wolf's Lair. And what if, upon entering the conference room, Hitler engaged him in conversation? What if Hitler stopped the current briefing and insisted Stauffenberg give his presentation? Bet he was sweating bullets.
The backround conversation where the officers are giving the information on the battle to Hitler is really the cream on the top of this scene, really good directing by the film.
Some people were afraid and backed out, but they also didn't report the people who tried to go ahead with it. You don't know how something like that will go, it might be the only option, you might be better off defecting or doing something else. Hitler might get himself killed, you never know for sure. Which is part of what makes real life so difficult and makes a decision like this even more ballsy.
My parents grew up in Nazi Germany and I remember their stories of how relieved everyone was that Hitler was ok after this attempt in his life. He was invincible until he took his own life.
Imagine the struggle it must have been for staufenberg to arm the bomb under pressure with a hand missing on one arm and fingers missing on the only hand he had
I was always intrigued by this scene hearing the command presentations of the military situation of the German army. This must have been intense back then with the entire allied power hitting them from all sides. The losses were so huge it would be such a stressful experience to hear for any high-ranking officers or generals and to reach a counter-plan.
Too bad he failed, would have saved millions of lives and thousands upon thousands of historic buildings and Dresden wouldn't have been completely destroyed or Berlin.
Insert Redletter Media Meme Here it's hard to say by 1944. The allies especially Russia wanted blood . Perhaps by overthrowing the nazis it could've changed things but I doubt it . If anything the Germans themselves would have to do a witch hunt to themselves and appease the allies like in WW1. An armistice would've been a better outcome than unconditional surrender
1945joshuaruiz It was mid 1944, only a month after Normandy landing. By then, Germany has probably lost 75% of its leverage but I think a new government that denounces the Hitler faction would have convinced the Allies (not sure about Soviets) to at least consider some sort of peace treaty. I assume it would be an even stricter Versailles treaty. Not to mention everyone was aware of the cost necessary to subdue Germany with blood to the very end.
@@shamangamingkz the black Allegmaine SS officers ones are his best. Not just the colour scheme of black and silver, but the tailoring on them too. Modern suit tailoring has taken a lot from those. Cutting along or against the bias,the accommodation for epaulettes and discreet padding... The sharp angles... Those uniforms left a long legacy.
I was there! My seats weren’t that great unfortunately! I barely saw the explosion, but I did get an SS officers sternum to take home! I had a great time at the show. Was happy to see the main act survived.
Such a great movie!! These brave men set out on a seemingly suicidal mission in an attempt to snuff out evil and to bring peace. And although they ultimately lost their lives for it, they ended up on the right side of history and are now (and will always be) celebrated and remembered as heroes. SALUTE.
No sympathy. They were not heroes, they were traitors. They had taken their oath to Hitler personally as Supreme Commander and now decided it was acceptabl;e to go back on it.
The assasination would have succeeded if 1 of the following 3 events had happened: The windows of the conference hut were closed or the meeting had taken place in the bunkers. Both explosives had been used. The solid oak table leg was not between the bomb and hitler.
Nazis are so ridiculous. Hitler surviving through dumb luck and then pissing his pants and killing himself like a coward is bOss aSs. Mussolini getting gutted like a little pig in public was funny though.
Hitler during this scene before the blast is being briefed about the USSR's Operation Bagration, the biggest and probably most successful offensive during WWII here are some statics below. 1. 31 of 47 German divisional commanders facing Bagration by the end of Operation Bagration were either killed, captured or missing. 2. The operation destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre. 3. It was the biggest German defeat in German military history and ripped the heart out of the German armies on the Eastern Front, over 450,000 casualties. 4. Bagration by the end of the Operation had taken Soviet armies to the gates of Warsaw and borders of East Prussia by the end of August 1944.
The Most Successfully ww2 operation was Barbarrosa, but Bagration was the most successful soviet one the Germans lost 450,000 of wich 250,0000 captured arround 70,000 killed & 100,000 Wounded, the soviets lost 200,000 killed and 500,000 wounded in numbers was a pirric soviet victory
He tried to remove Hitler to save german chauvinistic aristocracy from the catastrophe. He wanted to bring german dominance over slavic peoples . He was a racist. And btw he didn't care about a random german.
@@tka1289 I don't know what you're talking about. Stauffenburg was already a high ranking colonel and had a good salary. If he actually wanted to kill Hitler for that reason it would be stupid and pointless. The real reason he tried to kill Hitler is because he knew he was destroying Germany as a whole.
@@wilhelmvonberghoff175 He had a good salary . Ok I agree ,that is a fact . But I am not talking about salaries, I am talking about the reasons behind The assassination attempt. He was a means to remove Hitler et consortes from government. And, How The Assassins thought , They could have saved Germany and their vast landholdings in the east or else by striking a peace with the US and UK .To strike a peace they thought they needed to kill Hitler. The Assassins did not act because of humanitarian reasons. The were chauvinist,hated slavic peoples,supported war and subjugation of Slavic countries. They wanted to save themselves and their dominance in Germany. They hated that National Socialists treated Germans equally - Hitler was a commoner like many other in his regime. They knew that Soviets would nationalise large estates etc. Simply They did act to save Themselves. Regardless of anything or anybody. Did Stauffenberg do anything to help stop killing Poles ? Did Stauffenberg think about stopping the war and annihilation of Ukraine/Russia or Belarus? He was more than adamant of that policy above . German aristocracy, German military circles wanted at least since 1900s to destroy Russia. To enslave Slavic peoples. In 1900s - they planned to remove or kill all Poles from the Greater Poland region ( than under German occupation) , the plan was highly popular among them. That devil Bismarck was sending letters to the so- called Imperator , in which he demanded that all Poles would be killed merciless.
@@tka1289 I don't know where you're getting this information from but it's very wrong and contradicting. You say Stauffenberg supported the war yet he wants to kill Hitler to make peace. Doesn't make any sense. There's been books written on why they tried to assassinate Hitler and I suggest you read them. Stauffenberg and his supporters were all Royalists who hated the Nazi Party and Hitler because of his ideologies. It was destroying Germany. That's one of the reasons why they tried to assassinate Hitler because he was killing the German people. Germany at that point in the war was being bombed night and day by allied bombings and many people were dying. Also if Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler because he wanted to save German aristocracy or whatever he would've done it way earlier like in 1940 or before. Also when you asked if Stauffenberg could help save the Poles, bro the man is a colonel and not a general (even generals didn't know about the Nazis systematic extermination of Jews in camps), he can only do so much. Now to finish off you really need to correct your history of Germany's view of Russia and Poland in the 1900s. Back then it was Imperial Germany and the king of Germany (specifically Kaiser Wilhelm II) was literally cousins with the Tsar of Russia and both loved each other and sent many letters to each other. Kaiser Wilhelm II also actually wanted to create an independent Poland after WW1 because he saw what the Russians did there because they had Poland under control and under their empire. So please strop trying to say Germany always hated the Poles, that only came into effect in WW2 with Hitler. As amatter of fact if anyone hates the Poles more its the Russians. The poles themselves hate the Russians more than the Germans.
Ces ""braves"" soldats allemands, rendent honneur à l'Allemagne aujourd'hui, il fallait qu'ils soient incroyablement courageux. Je suis vraiment impressionné par ces hommes qui voulaient enfin arrêter la guerre, les massacres.
No sólo eso. Después se fue a Inglaterra y trabajó como P. M. Ethan Hunt y su equipo de Misión Imposible, lo secuestró para abrir retinalmente, una caja roja de Solomon Lane y el Sindicato. El dinero de dicha caja, era para los Apóstoles.- 😂😂😂🎥🎞️📽️🎬🇨🇱
Dicen que también se fue a Inglaterra y trabajó para el grupo Queen, como su abogado. Freddy le puso por sobrenombre "Miami". Al menos así salió en la película "Rapsodia Bohemia".- 🤔🤔🤔😂😂😂🎬📽️🎞️🎥👍🏻👏🏻🇨🇱
No way..someone else would have been taken over the power as there were a bunch of greedy generals behind the scene. And its gonna be somewhat the same!
It was too late .The Allied offensives were too well advanced .The Russian attacks would have rolled on and Stalin had his eyes on eastern Europe .The Western allies were massively committed after D-Day and nobody would have stopped short of unconditional surrender .
even if the plot would have succeeded, by this time the allies would have insisted on unconditionally surrender. however, stauffenberg would have saved thousands upon thousands of lives if the plot succeeded and the new government would have immediately surrendered.
6:28 I want to see more of Hitler getting flown through the air in movies about the failed assassination plot. the only times I saw were Killing Hitler even though it was a dummy and Nazi megastructures. I hate it when they just show the outside of the wolves lair blowing up in movies. also show inside straight after the blast
I would compare that to someone trying to grind up weed, pack it into a bowl and trying to hit it real quick in the bathroom and trying to sanitize the air while an unaware cop is right outside the door. Then as you leave You're panting due to the fact that you were not only successful but realizing just how close you were to getting caught.
I don't see why Stauffenberg couldn't have just put and used 2 or even 3 bombs (instead of just 1) in his suitcase, just to increase the chances of killing Hitler (or at least injuring Hitler enough to be permanently incapacitated and unable to rule). I mean for an plot this important and the risks involved, why leave anything to chance?
He did bring two bombs but was only able to arm one of them because he was interrupted and was too slow to arm the bombs because of his injuries. The real question is why the German resistance chose a crippled guy with one arm to carry out the most important part of their plan.
Stauffenberg was the Chief of Staff for the Reverse Army under General Fromm, his position required he have regular meetings with the Fűhrer that why he was chosen to plant the bomb, Stauffenberg was the only closest plotter to have direct access to Hitler and in fact he did use his disabilities well like asking being placed closer to Hitler because of his 'hard of hearing'.
What you say is very true. Even if the second charge wasn’t armed, the first one will trigger the seconds’s explosion anyway, killing everyone in the hut. I guess this scene offers a *plausible* explanation as to why they didn’t throw it in the bag for good measure: nerves, bad luck, the interruption. But only Stauffenberg and Haeften themselves knew what really went down.
„Was wir im deutschen Widerstand während des Krieges nicht wirklich begreifen wollten, haben wir nachträglich vollends gelernt: Daß der Krieg schließlich nicht gegen Hitler, sondern gegen Deutschland geführt wurde.“ (Eugen Gerstenmaier, Bundestagspräsident ab 1954, während des Zweiten Weltkrieges Mitglied der „Bekennenden Kirche im Widerstand“. Quelle: „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“, 21. März 1975)
Couldnt agree more,,he could not even run back inside after the bomb hadgone off with a knife to finish hitler off. i would have,,but i have all my fingers!!!!
because the bullet would not have done nothing, if the Saboteurs had shot him, then the SS and Himmler and Goebbels would have certainly prevent Fromm from declaring Operation Valkyrie, the whole thing would have been for nothing if Himmler or Goebbels had replaced him right away as Chancellor.
Just out of curiosity, was Hitler himself in the building when the bomb went off, or was he outside of it? Cause I remember he walked away with some minor injuries to my surprise and shock after a blast that big.
@Literally The Coolest I'm from India so i am not generally accustomed to the European surnames or their origins,can you help me with that? But Silva, Smith,murphy,muller are some special ones that I have heard of.
There’s not a knife sharp enough to cut the tension in that room prior to the blast. To pull of an operation such as that, EVERYTHING must go according to plan and leave nothing to chance. It only took 1 thing to go wrong and it’s screwed the rest of the plans up. They should’ve confirmed of Hitlers death before initiating Valkyrie. But they were desperate and careless trying to kill the most wanted man in the world at that time.
I tend to agree. The stress Stauffenberg was under must have been tremendous. Especially walking around with a live bomb then being diverted from the original venue of the bunker to the conference hut (don't know if he had been there previously). Then, he had to make his escape after the blast through the checkpoints. So many things could have gone wrong, and like you said just one thing could have meant failure.
@@aaaht3810 and considering there were more eyes in that room watching every persons move made that situation that MUCH MORE tense. You definitely couldn’t act suspicious around Hitler. That SOB had eyes and ears everywhere. That’s why so many assassination attempts failed.
Frome was at the first meeting in the bunker. If he were at the second, he would have been killed with Hitler, but Beck wanted him to be in the new administration
It's ok. Steiner's attack will bring everything under control.
OOF
@W. George THAT ATTACK WAS A ORDER
@W. George das war ein Befehl
FEGELEIN!
@HQ Night FEGELEIN!
Assassins: *Fail mission*
Hitler: *”Fine, I’ll do it myself”*
@@أشرف-ي1خ Pretty hilarious if you ask me.
not really funny.
adolf 12 yeah
sxnnystorm humour is subjective
jkgaming101 k
Imagine if Stauffenberg was like: "My Führer, can you hold this briefcase for a second?" and then started running like an idiot. That would've worked 100%!
That's how it would go down if Valkyrie was remade in the style of The Death of Stalin
@@Ramboost007 Yeah, he should've screamed: "Go back to Austria, dead boy!"
It‘s „Führer“, not „Fuhrer“...
Chocolates from Belgium mien füher
That would've been the most idiotic historic assassination.
*Mission Impossible World War 2*
Kshitiz Garv 🤣🤣
What a stupid fucking comment
@@borris3768 wtf 😂😂😂😂😂😂
*_Mission Impossible: Valkyrie_*
Ahahahaha wtf
I bet their ghosts were pissed to learn the only person who succeeded at killing Hitler was himself
he escaped to argentina
@@iggyp2639 And Then what?....Escaped To atlantis to Form the So Called Illuminati?
Iggy P he escaped to north pole
@@upstreamtoast3512 so thats who Santa is
Berlin Monitor no he was in electric I saw him he’s didn’t vent
I was so engrossed in the plot of this movie that I half-expected the assassination to succeed
Nigga you know Hitler killed himself right
@@garbygarb31 *SPOILER* ALERT, JEEZ
@@garbygarb31 ding ding ding ding, Good answer Carl
It's like watching the scene where the Titanic is about to hit the iceberg. You know what's about to happen and yet, you just can't help but hope.
"Plenty of time", the thing I say to myself the night before an exam.
Don't remind me 😂🤦🏻♂️
Oh God. Flashbacks to law school
Yeah, failure of the exam also results in you being blown into piece by your own explosive...no pressure LOL
"It's only 11pm, I have another 12 whole hours to study" 😅
Then everything "explodes" in your mind. 😄
The three things instrumental for Hitler surviving the explosion were 1. Stauffenberg did not activate both bombs just one. 2. The explosion happened in a wooden building with a open window, minimizing the intensity of the explosion. Instead of a concrete walled room, where the explosive energy would have been contained in the room instead of being ventilated. 3. The briefcase containing the explosive were moved to the other side of the table leg helping she is Hitler from the explosion. If 2 of these actions did not happen Hitler would have either died in the explosion or have been fatally injured.
they did that on mythbusters, that massive wooden table leg saved him
I
It's God willing.....what should we do???
I saw the mythbusters episode and he simply should have left the inactive 1 in the briefcase due the other exploding would ignite both up.
What are u a bomb scientist or something? Lol nerd, I’ve seen call of duty explosions don’t matter if windows are open or closed
Two men in a room and strange noises.. I think another thing.
Oh gawd.
One is eating the other?
Baustellenschild You could say that...
They were Nazis who wouldn't tolerate the sight of gays
Oooh you gotta warp since of humor 😂😂
Every time I watch this movie or read the history of these events I'm left bewildered at how a group of administratively and organizationally talented officers, who couldn't help but know that they'd all die if the plot failed, would act so timidly once the coup attempt began. Aside from Stauffenberg himself almost everyone else dithered, hesitated, and wasted critical time waiting for direction and/or confirmation. The chances of the plot succeeding were never high, but the failure of the majority of the plotters to act decisively ensured it's failure.
In the series 'Hitler's Henchmen' related to the episode Freisler 'The hanging Judge' an army officer who knew Stauffenberg and the plotters but wasn't involved in the plot, said he believed Stauffenberg was the only capable individual to carry out the plot to the end since in his own words "The old cavalry generals who took part were sorry figures."
Although they were military, the problem is they weren't assassins. Imagine it's wartime and you're a high-level military officer who has decided to use a bomb to assassinate your insane, xenophobic leader and the rest of your fellow military people are also insane and xenophobic. You'd be nervous and want to escape without getting caught, and then they change the meeting location at the last minute which totally throws you off.
The bomb was not powerful enough to do the job because the meeting was moved to a conference room with windows. Had it exploded in the original location the meeting was supposed to take place ( inside the bunker) Hitler would have been killed and history would have unfolded quite differently.
@@Boxingbear indeed the explosion would've liquidized everyone in the meeting, had it been conducted in the bunker as originally scheduled.
Well if they were good soldiers they would have won the war anyway. Nothing they are effective in.
The biggest flaw was the conspirators were counting on the meeting taking place inside the reinforced bunker, where the overpressure from the explosion likely would have killed everyone in the room. Unfortunately the meeting was moved to another building with open windows. With as paranoid as Hitler was becoming, I am surprised that all briefcases were not searched when entering the Wolf's Lair compound. It would have been difficult to explain why 2 briefcases contained explosives.
3:01
Yes That Probably Made All The Difference In The World.
Imagine how much stress he had. I can not even tolerate the stress in DOTA 2 Ranked-Match.
different time, different cats. under those circumstances you would've maybe grown a pair too
You are speaking of very brave men by 1900s standards who also had years of military active service in war...
DOTA match fuck me
@@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser yeah shouldnt be compared, dota match is way more stressful
That’s because you suck at it. Simple
Can’t even play a single pub anymore after work. Even unraked matches are stressful 😣
I was just visiting the Wolfs Lair in northern Poland a week ago for the first time. An eerie feeling standing in these places.
partysover ń
I'm visiting Rastenburg one day before i pass. Normandy too
I never knew it was a visitor attraction, that one is dearly noted, thanks for the heads up.
Great
There's an aura around that place
A big problem was that lots of Germans still supported Hitler at this point. Had the plot succeeded, we may have ended up with another situation similar to the end of WW1. Half of Germany feeling like they didn’t loose on the battlefield but once again got stabbed in the back by traitors. Since the war was already lost at this point, the plotters probably would’ve been better off just using their command influence to undermine Nazi policy anyway they could
@@TheGeneralMotor making peace with the west you mean. They never intended (nor did the soviets) on any sort of peace in the east
The Allies had considered assassinating Hitler but with the war turning against Germany, it was thought better that Hitler himself was undermining Germany faster then the Allies could and also the Allies wanted unconditional surrender from Germany.
Operation Barbarossa, invasion of Soviet union
too bad that one officer put the briefcase on the other side of that leg, so much would have changed......RIP Colonel Stauffenberg
r u still active?? 11 years old comment...
@eating sugar no papa how about you? rooting that hitler lives?
This comment was made when I was in 1st grade. Jeez!
@@gaammwalid7926 and when I was 2.
Yes, Hitler was literally protected by the devil himself.
So close... God this is so hard to watch. If he put the secondary charge in the bag it would have worked. How heartbreaking.
Joseph James. Or the briefcase wasn’t moved at the last moment
@@crazyforcoffee5950 Or the day was slightly cooler
These are military operations. Things don't go as planned.
Exactly,that is shown in the mythbusters episode
Rugby Man Well that part is just Hollywood fiction;)
You don't actually know that happend in real life
During this scene, Hitler is being briefed on The Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration. This was the most successful and efficient operation on WW2 resulting in the destruction of Germany’s Army Group Center- 400,000 Germans killed in a month.
Eighteen German generals were killed or captured. Truly an extraordinary operation executed with precision and scale never to be seen again (4 million Soviet troops).
Lyle Davis, the sovjet "Weichsel-Oder-Operation" was even sucessfullier.
May all soldiers rest in peace
Almost as effective as Operation Barbarosa.
31 of 47 German divisional commanders facing Bagration by the end of Operation Bagration were either killed, captured or missing, destroying 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre.
It was the biggest German defeat in German military history and ripped the heart out of the German armies on the Eastern Front, taking the Soviet armies to the gates of Warsaw and borders of East Prussia by the end of August 1944.
@@joshuagrover795 probably one of my "favorite" battles of all time in just how damn brutal it was. We saw the Germans behave as the Soviets did in 1941, and the Soviets as the Germans of 1941. I have a deep fascination with those battles that "rip the heart out" as you said. I remember that wording from a documentary actually.
It's hard to imagine the stress Stauffenberg must have been under. Walking around with a live bomb. Going to the conference hut and not the bunker ( I assume he had not been there before and did not know the layout). Then if the bomb detonates, he still has to make it out of the Wolf's Lair. And what if, upon entering the conference room, Hitler engaged him in conversation? What if Hitler stopped the current briefing and insisted Stauffenberg give his presentation? Bet he was sweating bullets.
Stauffenberg should have worn a suicide vest.
the hero Stauffenberg had testicles of steel
The backround conversation where the officers are giving the information on the battle to Hitler is really the cream on the top of this scene, really good directing by the film.
Probably the only time ever Tom failed an impossible mission
Never in any war a guy hd such big balls like Stauffenberg. Imagine being him in this situation you would be shaking and dying inside
a great man for eternity..
steel balls for sure! God was with him
I'd be scared to go with the plan
KillerProductions No sacrifuce?
Jesse Williams You're such a hero kid.
Some people were afraid and backed out, but they also didn't report the people who tried to go ahead with it. You don't know how something like that will go, it might be the only option, you might be better off defecting or doing something else. Hitler might get himself killed, you never know for sure. Which is part of what makes real life so difficult and makes a decision like this even more ballsy.
Keyboard warriors are not only immature, they don't understand how much actual courage the real people who did this had.
Why??
Hitler: Where was Fegelein when all this happened? Very sus indeed...
Fegelein was there, as the chief of the Reserve Army Battalion.
the suspense of this scene still gets to me!!
the part where the actor who plays h looks at tom cruise as Stauffenberg is blood freezing!
Agree, my nerves were on overload ...
My parents grew up in Nazi Germany and I remember their stories of how relieved everyone was that Hitler was ok after this attempt in his life. He was invincible until he took his own life.
Sure bud, that makes you over 100? Make up a more believable invention next time yeah?
@@m2heavyindustries378 you have superb math skills, asshole. My parents were children during WWII.
@@m2heavyindustries378...YOU SUMMED IT UP PRETTY WELL-!!!
Er wurde aus Deutschland rausgeschafft,von den Ami's u. England.Er wurde in England/Travistock ausgebildet,gegen Deutschland gehandelt.
@m2heavyindustries378 are u joking or just mentally disabled?
Gets 42 assasination attempts
Hitler:" Fine I will do it by myself"
Imagine the struggle it must have been for staufenberg to arm the bomb under pressure with a hand missing on one arm and fingers missing on the only hand he had
Arm the bomb...
@@natesepnefskiGuess you can say,.... he really needed a hand
There were 42 assassination attempts on Hitler's life but all failed.
There are only 15 known attempts to kill Hitler.
@@bvbinsane1vanity he did the another 27
Didn’t Lee Harvey Oswald try to kill him??
Fidel Castro still reigns supreme in surviving assassination attempts.
Because commies are talentless useless degenerates.
This is one of the best movies of tom cruise
I was always intrigued by this scene hearing the command presentations of the military situation of the German army. This must have been intense back then with the entire allied power hitting them from all sides. The losses were so huge it would be such a stressful experience to hear for any high-ranking officers or generals and to reach a counter-plan.
Check out the months of June 1944 and July 1944 in the map it's mind boggling: ua-cam.com/video/1CqGeAmVu1I/v-deo.html
Yea at that point, army group center was almost completely obliterated by the soviets. Stressful experience is an understatement
I think it was during Operation Bagration by the Red Army if I'm not mistaken.
1:28 When you have to finish the group project on your own
TheOMGsee hahaha lol
Anybody else wanted so bad to see them succeed and the movie to turn into an alternate history mode?
This was the best portrayal of Hitler I've seen so far. His voice is eeirly similar to the fuhrer's.
Did you see him?
His side profile is so similar too
nah the best is still Bruno Gantz, though this guy was decently good tho
No, bruno ganz takes the cake as the best hitler on screen in the downfall. Deserved an oscar for it.
So is this what resulted in Rommel's forced suicide?
Sean Barr Love Rommel , its so unfair and i really wonder if hitler escaped to my grandparents/parents country Argintina .
nice
u think it would be better if germany won?
Pretty much
@@jenniferrojas7024 yes, Allah Akbar
The attack was almost worthwhile since he at least killed that pesky Colonal Brandt. He was practically Valkyrie's version of Fegelein.
Their eyes and facial expressions suggests how nobody trusts one another in a Police state..
Too bad he failed, would have saved millions of lives and thousands upon thousands of historic buildings and Dresden wouldn't have been completely destroyed or Berlin.
Insert Redletter Media Meme Here it's hard to say by 1944. The allies especially Russia wanted blood . Perhaps by overthrowing the nazis it could've changed things but I doubt it . If anything the Germans themselves would have to do a witch hunt to themselves and appease the allies like in WW1. An armistice would've been a better outcome than unconditional surrender
@LordMIGtau what are you talking about, Germany still exists
@LordMIGtau Germany is still almost leading european union. I'm from France and tired of the German Leadership.
@LordMIGtau Yeah, it's a real shame.
1945joshuaruiz
It was mid 1944, only a month after Normandy landing.
By then, Germany has probably lost 75% of its leverage but I think a new government that denounces the Hitler faction would have convinced the Allies (not sure about Soviets) to at least consider some sort of peace treaty. I assume it would be an even stricter Versailles treaty. Not to mention everyone was aware of the cost necessary to subdue Germany with blood to the very end.
So close.
Yoctopory only good in horse shoes and hand grenades.
i am guessing this is not the only movie made about the plot to kill hitler but it is the only one i have heard of and seen
The only Hollywood movie. There are a couple TV Movies about it.
Actually Richard Wagner wrote one called Die Walküre________________
This guy remained so calm, its phenomenal.
This very story was included in the 1987 TV mini-series "War and Remembrance", the sequel to the 1983 series "The Winds of War"..
German Uniforms at WW2 are the best!
Ofc, Hugo Boss
@@shamangamingkz the black Allegmaine SS officers ones are his best. Not just the colour scheme of black and silver, but the tailoring on them too. Modern suit tailoring has taken a lot from those. Cutting along or against the bias,the accommodation for epaulettes and discreet padding... The sharp angles... Those uniforms left a long legacy.
@@mccarthy5825 sure bro
Yeah ı like ss uniforms and other german uniforms
-Beckett?
*Its lord now, actualy
It's just a good business.
Lmao😂
I was there! My seats weren’t that great unfortunately! I barely saw the explosion, but I did get an SS officers sternum to take home!
I had a great time at the show. Was happy to see the main act survived.
Such a great movie!! These brave men set out on a seemingly suicidal mission in an attempt to snuff out evil and to bring peace. And although they ultimately lost their lives for it, they ended up on the right side of history and are now (and will always be) celebrated and remembered as heroes. SALUTE.
amen God have mercy for them!
No sympathy. They were not heroes, they were traitors. They had taken their oath to Hitler personally as Supreme Commander and now decided it was acceptabl;e to go back on it.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
0:48 the moment when he hears two German officers of the Wermacht grunting and shuffling behind the door
Should of had someone take one for the team and held the briefcase next to him and let it go off.
The assasination would have succeeded if 1 of the following 3 events had happened:
The windows of the conference hut were closed or the meeting had taken place in the bunkers.
Both explosives had been used.
The solid oak table leg was not between the bomb and hitler.
Hitler leaning over the table also minimized the damage even more. That man really had the luck of the devil.
once a plan gets too complex, anything can go wrong. walter sobchak
Of all the Hitlers actors, I would swear that this one looks very much like the real one
Check out Bruno Ganz in Der Untergang (Downfall) as Hitler.
Anibal Rendon
No, Bruno Ganz is.
No, that one is actually pretty terrible imo. Bruno Ganz was the best hitler in movies.
FEGELEIN!!!! FEGELEIN!!!! FEGELEEEEEIN!!!!!!
I think the one on look whos back is the best looking one.
4:06... 4:10 min Scene very well executed by the actors
best part of this attempt is that Hitler ended up meeting with Mussolini right after. Thats some boss ass shit right there.
"What-a happen to you, Signore Hitler?
"Ich got blown yesterday, Beni."
"Mamma Mia. By Eva?"
"Nein. Stauffenberg."
Nazis are so ridiculous. Hitler surviving through dumb luck and then pissing his pants and killing himself like a coward is bOss aSs.
Mussolini getting gutted like a little pig in public was funny though.
My dad was in the Polish Army. P. O. W. Thru the war. My mom was much younger. They never talked about it.
very sad it may help them to heal
Hitler during this scene before the blast is being briefed about the USSR's Operation Bagration, the biggest and probably most successful offensive during WWII here are some statics below.
1. 31 of 47 German divisional commanders facing Bagration by the end of Operation Bagration were either killed, captured or missing.
2. The operation destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre.
3. It was the biggest German defeat in German military history and ripped the heart out of the German armies on the Eastern Front, over 450,000 casualties.
4. Bagration by the end of the Operation had taken Soviet armies to the gates of Warsaw and borders of East Prussia by the end of August 1944.
This is interesting😊
The Most Successfully ww2 operation was Barbarrosa, but Bagration was the most successful soviet one the Germans lost 450,000 of wich 250,0000 captured arround 70,000 killed & 100,000 Wounded, the soviets lost 200,000 killed and 500,000 wounded in numbers was a pirric soviet victory
Me everytime i do my homework in the school right before the bells ring and the teacher cames in
MISSION FAILED WE'LL GET E'M NEXT TIME
Men like Col. Stauffenberg are always so under-credited for what they tried to do from Within
High treason?
He tried to remove Hitler to save german chauvinistic aristocracy from the catastrophe.
He wanted to bring german dominance over slavic peoples .
He was a racist.
And btw he didn't care about a random german.
@@tka1289 I don't know what you're talking about. Stauffenburg was already a high ranking colonel and had a good salary. If he actually wanted to kill Hitler for that reason it would be stupid and pointless. The real reason he tried to kill Hitler is because he knew he was destroying Germany as a whole.
@@wilhelmvonberghoff175 He had a good salary . Ok I agree ,that is a fact .
But I am not talking about salaries, I am talking about the reasons behind The assassination attempt. He was a means to remove Hitler et consortes from government. And, How The Assassins thought , They could have saved Germany and their vast landholdings in the east or else by striking a peace with the US and UK .To strike a peace they thought they needed to kill Hitler. The Assassins did not act because of humanitarian reasons. The were chauvinist,hated slavic peoples,supported war and subjugation of Slavic countries. They wanted to save themselves and their dominance in Germany. They hated that National Socialists treated Germans equally - Hitler was a commoner like many other in his regime.
They knew that Soviets would nationalise large estates etc.
Simply They did act to save Themselves. Regardless of anything or anybody. Did Stauffenberg do anything to help stop killing Poles ? Did Stauffenberg think about stopping the war and annihilation of Ukraine/Russia or Belarus?
He was more than adamant of that policy above . German aristocracy, German military circles wanted at least since 1900s to destroy Russia. To enslave Slavic peoples. In 1900s - they planned to remove or kill all Poles from the Greater Poland region ( than under German occupation) , the plan was highly popular among them. That devil Bismarck was sending letters to the so- called Imperator , in which he demanded that all Poles would be killed merciless.
@@tka1289 I don't know where you're getting this information from but it's very wrong and contradicting. You say Stauffenberg supported the war yet he wants to kill Hitler to make peace. Doesn't make any sense. There's been books written on why they tried to assassinate Hitler and I suggest you read them. Stauffenberg and his supporters were all Royalists who hated the Nazi Party and Hitler because of his ideologies. It was destroying Germany. That's one of the reasons why they tried to assassinate Hitler because he was killing the German people. Germany at that point in the war was being bombed night and day by allied bombings and many people were dying. Also if Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler because he wanted to save German aristocracy or whatever he would've done it way earlier like in 1940 or before.
Also when you asked if Stauffenberg could help save the Poles, bro the man is a colonel and not a general (even generals didn't know about the Nazis systematic extermination of Jews in camps), he can only do so much.
Now to finish off you really need to correct your history of Germany's view of Russia and Poland in the 1900s. Back then it was Imperial Germany and the king of Germany (specifically Kaiser Wilhelm II) was literally cousins with the Tsar of Russia and both loved each other and sent many letters to each other. Kaiser Wilhelm II also actually wanted to create an independent Poland after WW1 because he saw what the Russians did there because they had Poland under control and under their empire. So please strop trying to say Germany always hated the Poles, that only came into effect in WW2 with Hitler. As amatter of fact if anyone hates the Poles more its the Russians. The poles themselves hate the Russians more than the Germans.
I love how they zoom in on the windows like oh shit, this isn't going to work
I really like suspenseful scenes like this.Loved this movie..was great
Ces ""braves"" soldats allemands, rendent honneur à l'Allemagne aujourd'hui, il fallait qu'ils soient incroyablement courageux. Je suis vraiment impressionné par ces hommes qui voulaient enfin arrêter la guerre, les massacres.
This is 100% suicide squad real-life.!!😱😱😱
The most punctual people in the world. Where being late is bad, being too early as well.
Creo que uno de los héroes máximos de la segunda guerra
.es sin dudas stofenberg. Pudo cambiar el curso de la guerra.y tambien de la historia
Colonel Brandt dies from this explosion he lost his leg and then died from surgery
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The table leg should have been promoted too, since it did half the work!
3:56
"Cutler Beckett?"
"Its nazi now, Actually"
He survived the sinking of the endevour, surprising
No sólo eso. Después se fue a Inglaterra y trabajó como P. M.
Ethan Hunt y su equipo de Misión Imposible, lo secuestró para abrir retinalmente, una caja roja de Solomon Lane y el Sindicato. El dinero de dicha caja, era para los Apóstoles.-
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Dicen que también se fue a Inglaterra y trabajó para el grupo Queen, como su abogado. Freddy le puso por sobrenombre "Miami". Al menos así salió en la película "Rapsodia Bohemia".-
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This clip starts with Jack Bauer and Tom Tom Club :)
Valkyrie, heroic act in the centre of evil power. Salute to the actors, especially to stauffenberg
German military was a pure art
It would have saved a million lives since the last year of Hitler's regime was very, very bloody indeed.
Stalin's regime was also the same
Actually it could have cost more lives, if after Hitler's death they put someone better at military tactics in charge, like Guderian or Rommel.
No way..someone else would have been taken over the power as there were a bunch of greedy generals behind the scene. And its gonna be somewhat the same!
It was too late .The Allied offensives were too well advanced .The Russian attacks would have rolled on and Stalin had his eyes on eastern Europe .The Western allies were massively committed after D-Day and nobody would have stopped short of unconditional surrender .
even if the plot would have succeeded, by this time the allies would have insisted on unconditionally surrender. however, stauffenberg would have saved thousands upon thousands of lives if the plot succeeded and the new government would have immediately surrendered.
German resistance : we failed to kill Hitler
Der Furher : chin up lads I got a plan
6:28 I want to see more of Hitler getting flown through the air in movies about the failed assassination plot. the only times I saw were Killing Hitler even though it was a dummy and Nazi megastructures. I hate it when they just show the outside of the wolves lair blowing up in movies. also show inside straight after the blast
I would compare that to someone trying to grind up weed, pack it into a bowl and trying to hit it real quick in the bathroom and trying to sanitize the air while an unaware cop is right outside the door. Then as you leave You're panting due to the fact that you were not only successful but realizing just how close you were to getting caught.
HOL'UP youtube says this movie was realeased in 2015, this was released 2008
He had an Angel watching over his body. Only way he survived so many attempts
I don't see why Stauffenberg couldn't have just put and used 2 or even 3 bombs (instead of just 1) in his suitcase, just to increase the chances of killing Hitler (or at least injuring Hitler enough to be permanently incapacitated and unable to rule).
I mean for an plot this important and the risks involved, why leave anything to chance?
He did bring two bombs but was only able to arm one of them because he was interrupted and was too slow to arm the bombs because of his injuries. The real question is why the German resistance chose a crippled guy with one arm to carry out the most important part of their plan.
I think Stauffenberg's assistant who was with him in the room should have helped with arming the second bomb.
@@trekkienzl2862 Probably because Stauffenberg had a good enough reputation / influence to get himself to that room with Hitler
Stauffenberg was the Chief of Staff for the Reverse Army under General Fromm, his position required he have regular meetings with the Fűhrer that why he was chosen to plant the bomb, Stauffenberg was the only closest plotter to have direct access to Hitler and in fact he did use his disabilities well like asking being placed closer to Hitler because of his 'hard of hearing'.
What you say is very true. Even if the second charge wasn’t armed, the first one will trigger the seconds’s explosion anyway, killing everyone in the hut. I guess this scene offers a *plausible* explanation as to why they didn’t throw it in the bag for good measure: nerves, bad luck, the interruption. But only Stauffenberg and Haeften themselves knew what really went down.
„Was wir im deutschen Widerstand während des Krieges nicht wirklich begreifen wollten, haben wir nachträglich vollends gelernt: Daß der Krieg schließlich nicht gegen Hitler, sondern gegen Deutschland geführt wurde.“ (Eugen Gerstenmaier, Bundestagspräsident ab 1954, während des Zweiten Weltkrieges Mitglied der „Bekennenden Kirche im Widerstand“. Quelle: „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“, 21. März 1975)
80 years ago this July it nearly succeeded.
he tried save a nation
Underwood95 wow wow wow wow yeah you cry baby snowflake liar. Go back to your Trump supporters
This is the most almost succeeded mission
R.I.P Rommel
Krusty krab pie explosion in nutshell
Everyone forgets about Rommel and his bravery. They always get caught up in his battles in North Africa with Montgomery. Good stuff 👍
Nietuzinkowy aktorski profesjonalizm osobowości postaci historycznych. Danke.
6:28 It was just a prank, bro
4:07 imagine looking right into the eyes of the devil
Stalin?
George Bush?
Narendra Modi?
Queen Victoria?
Killary Clinton?
Had this mission been successful, hitler wouldn't rant about steiner
Treason doth never prosper, for if it does, none dare call it treason.
Oh yes, send the man with one eye and one working arm that only has 3 working fingers to plant and arm the bomb. It will surely work.
Couldnt agree more,,he could not even run back inside after the bomb hadgone off with a knife to finish hitler off. i would have,,but i have all my fingers!!!!
They didn't 'figure out who to send'. They had no one with access to Hitler, and then there was a staff shakeup and they had Stauffenberg.
1:12 this is me when my mom walks in when watching something she shouldnt see lol
If the phone never rang, do you think Stauffenberg would have stayed in the room to make sure the bomb exploded?
some sources say he left to make the call
him leaving before the explosion was part of the plan
That was a serious secretly conference
6:26 Best moment of the movie
What baffles me to this day is that all these men were so willing to die for the cause, but none thought of just putting a bullet in his head.
because the bullet would not have done nothing, if the Saboteurs had shot him, then the SS and Himmler and Goebbels would have certainly prevent Fromm from declaring Operation Valkyrie, the whole thing would have been for nothing if Himmler or Goebbels had replaced him right away as Chancellor.
Weapons were banned anywhere near hitler..
Because these guys were going to stage a coup after the assassination they needed to be alive for that
Just out of curiosity, was Hitler himself in the building when the bomb went off, or was he outside of it? Cause I remember he walked away with some minor injuries to my surprise and shock after a blast that big.
He was inside, but he was protected by the massive wooden table.
Wow. That’s a tough table. Unfortunately however hitler survived.
well Tom Cruise is my best actress in history! yes
I think you have a gender problem.
@Literally The Coolest may be he is a deutsch.
@Literally The Coolest I'm from India so i am not generally accustomed to the European surnames or their origins,can you help me with that? But Silva, Smith,murphy,muller are some special ones that I have heard of.
The guard at 2:39 looks like Ben Shapiro
There’s not a knife sharp enough to cut the tension in that room prior to the blast. To pull of an operation such as that, EVERYTHING must go according to plan and leave nothing to chance. It only took 1 thing to go wrong and it’s screwed the rest of the plans up. They should’ve confirmed of Hitlers death before initiating Valkyrie. But they were desperate and careless trying to kill the most wanted man in the world at that time.
I tend to agree. The stress Stauffenberg was under must have been tremendous. Especially walking around with a live bomb then being diverted from the original venue of the bunker to the conference hut (don't know if he had been there previously). Then, he had to make his escape after the blast through the checkpoints. So many things could have gone wrong, and like you said just one thing could have meant failure.
@@aaaht3810 and considering there were more eyes in that room watching every persons move made that situation that MUCH MORE tense. You definitely couldn’t act suspicious around Hitler. That SOB had eyes and ears everywhere. That’s why so many assassination attempts failed.
One of the best" role" of Tom Cruise...🔥
Frome was at the first meeting in the bunker. If he were at the second, he would have been killed with Hitler, but Beck wanted him to be in the new administration
The real mission impossible...😭🥺😉
"Plenty of time", when I try to pluck up the courage to speak to my crush.
6:28... goodbye eardrums
Such a good movie. Stauffenberg was a brave man.