Dear Mr. Rosenthal,
you say:
““Heiliges Deutschland” = Sacred Germany
“Geheimes Deutschland” = Secret Germany
According to some reports, Stauffe said the former; according to other reports, he said the latter.”
I think you (deliberately?) ignored the excellent point Steve made. While those two words are easily confused in English, this is definitely not the case in German. Oughtn’t you better have admitted that the sacred-secret argument was a non-starter?
By the way, that doesn’t mean that I do not agree with the gist of your article.
I know that this entry was about the film “Valkyrie” and thus about the “conservative” German resistance. But let me add that the left was by no means any more concerned about the fate of the Jews. I come from a family with a long Socialist tradition on both sides. My father (born 1911) was, when he was only 22, imprisoned and trialled for high treason while Stauffenberg was still doing the goose step for the Nazis. He survived to tell his tale (and to father me) but I have, however, never, not only once, heard him state that anything he did (and he did a lot during those 12 years) had anything to do with the Jews and their fate. Neither did his many contemporary comrades I had the opportunity to meet while he was alive, and I do not think that this is mere chance.
This just for the record!
