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I'm lost

DEC 24, 2008 06:00 AM

World War II was effectively over by July, 1944. The Allied forces, having landed in France, were pushing straight towards Germany and the Soviets were closing in from the East. The problem was that Hitler was too ideologically crazed, too syphilitic, too demented to see the truth — so something had to be done. Valkyrie tells the story of the July 20 Plot, in which a cabal of senior German officers conspired to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and then immediately cover their tracks by launching Operation...