Friends of Willis Carto: Wolf – Assassination attempt on Hitler

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August 16, 2024

To all Friends of Willis Carto

Last month, July 20th, was the 80-year commemoration of the infamous attempt to kill German Chancellor Adolf Hitler by a group of about 200 conspirators. Claus von Stauffenberg was the leader and instigator. Hitler was not killed, however, the participating military traitors were quickly arrested in Berlin as well as at the Wolf’s Lair, Goerings’ retreat in East Prussia where the attempt was tried and failed.

Stauffenberg can be judged now as having been anti-liberalism, anti-pacifism and, anti-democratic. With the exclusion of treason off his record, today he could have joined the ranks of German Nationalists.

On the evening of the 20th of July,1944 Stauffenberg was executed. Some of his executioners had been part of the attempted coup hours earlier. In Berlin, they tried to save themselves by volunteering for the execution of Stauffenberg.

His last words were called out; Life to our Holy Germany!

On the evening of January 14th, 1943 President Roosevelt arrived in Casablanca. Churchill had arrived earlier. Their secret conference lasted 13 days. On January 24 they allowed 50 journalists to join in a press conference. At that time Roosevelt announced the following: "Beginning now only one aim of war exists, the total capitulation of the three powers Germany, Italy, and Japan.

The conspirators around Count Stauffenberg ultimately feared that the enemies of the Reich would not allow a new Germany under their leadership, as their worldview was irreconcilably opposed to the Jewish world ideology that was emerging at the time as Western democracy. From this knowledge, from this dull feeling, the conspirators formulated an oath that was intended to keep "secret Germany" spiritually resilient during the time of foreign occupation. This oath was checked by Stauffenberg, he made corrections and approved it. The oath should express the ethos of their resistance with the character of an oath. This oath was intended to keep a secret community that "despised equality" together even if the assassination attempt failed. The surviving text version of the oath states:
The Conspirators’ Oath

"We believe in the future of the Germans. We know that Germans have forces that call upon them to lead the community of Western peoples to a more beautiful life. We are committed in spirit and in fact, to the great traditions of our people, which are achieved through the fusion of Hellenic and Christian origins in Germanic nature created Western humanity. We want a new order that makes all Germans bearers of the state and guarantees them law and justice, but we despise the lie of equality and bow to the ranks given by nature. that remains rooted in the earth of its homeland, close to the natural forces, that finds happiness and satisfaction in its work in the given circles of life and that overcomes the base instincts of envy and resentment in free pride. We want leaders from all classes of the people grow, connected with the divine powers, and go before others through great meaning, discipline, and sacrifice. We join together in an inseparable community that serves the New Order through attitude and action and prepares future leaders to be the warriors they need. We vow to live blamelessly, to serve in obedience, to remain steadfastly silent, and to stand up for one another."

[16] The conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and in particular Stauffenberg’s cowardly murder in the Wolf’s Lair located in East Prussia, as a retreat, was devasting morally as well. There were four victims, which cannot be justified in any way. It was reprehensible because it was intended to break the heroic resistance of the Wehrmacht against the unprecedented superiority of the enemy army. However, the Allies did not even show a vague willingness to abandon their criminal plan to destroy Germany and the German people at their core. In addition, the conspirators acted against the declared will of the German people, which makes their conspiracy and Stauffenberg’s act even more criminal.

Norbert Frei, the historian at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, commented: "The conspirators of July 20, 1944, knew long before they committed the crime that they would be acting against the will of the majority of their compatriots." [21] The historian Peter Hoeres, Professor of Modern History at the Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, made it clear in Focus: "The Allies had no interest in Stauffenberg’s success. Even during the various preparations for the assassination, the Allies found the German resistance unpleasant, even disruptive."

[22] The English historian and specialist on the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, confirmed in 2009: "Ultimately, the Allies would have insisted on an unconditional surrender. For them, Hitler was not just evil – but a representative of the army and the old elites of Germany. They wanted to eliminate them … Even if the last phase of the war would certainly have been different without Hitler, a government led by the conspirators of July 20 would also have had to accept Germany’s complete defeat." [23]

What will forever devalue Stauffenberg, despite his noble national sentiments, is the fact that he would have willingly sent hundreds of thousands of young German soldiers to their deaths without being able to gain anything politically or militarily. This is the worst form of betrayal because Stauffenberg knew the enemy’s goals very well.

Claus von Stauffenberg (German: ['kla??s 'f?n '?ta??fn?b??k] ?; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf’s Lair.

Alongside Major Generals Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, Stauffenberg was a central figure in the conspiracy against Hitler within the Wehrmacht. Shortly following the failed Operation Valkyrie plot, he was executed by firing squad.

As a military officer from a noble background, Stauffenberg took part in the Invasion of Poland, the 1941–42 invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, and the Tunisian campaign during the Second World War.

The war hero Otto Ernst Remer, Knight’s Cross holder with Oak Leaves, who thwarted the coup in Berlin on July 20, 1944, led the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) after the war until it was banned. At election rallies, the former Major General was cheered as soon as he shouted to the people in the overcrowded halls and rooms: "Anyone who betrays their country is doomed to die. And those who have done so will one day have to answer to a German court." [13

] In 1950, officially 25 percent of Germans still believed, unofficially probably much more, that the Second World War was lost due to betrayal and sabotage, and they were right. The Allies wanted a total war of annihilation against Germany which was prepared for peace.
In 1988 the IHR had invited General Remer to join us in California to address our gathered revisionist friends. He was greeted by our members with enthusiasm, as a great man who was admired by all.

Germany lost the war a year later. American lives lost were 419400. One has to question today if all of it was worth it. These wars were not necessary. Armaments are profitable just as Gen.Eisenhower stated: Beware of the Military-Industrial Complex. England lost its Empire but Churchill, the murderer, died a great man they say. Half of the world curses him today.

Thank you.

Elisabeth Carto