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Capsule
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
German general Erwin Rommel was forced to commit suicide after a failed attempt on Hitler’s life.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail)
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Erwin Rommel
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1977-018-13A / Otto / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Commentary
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
I love the direction the blog is taking.
Love the interest and help I’m getting from bloggers.
My daughter Kat, age 20, has suggested that I make a further change to bridge the generation gap.
Point being: she and others like her don’t have time for videos.
They do have time for podcasts.
Makes sense.
So podcasts are next for the website along with concomitant changes to the website.
Change and growth and reaching more bloggers week to week, day to day.
Will keep you updated.
Consecutive Post # 557
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Sunday’s Dinner posted on
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Kat and I shared a pork tenderloin, slow-roasted and then coated with a mustard sauce and breadcrumbs and fried.
Delicious.
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Chuckle of the day:
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Steven Wright:
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
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A “Hello, my friends!” video.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
There’s a gorilla in my tree!
Dom’s website: existentialautotrip.com
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Today’s Thumbnail
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
While the main goal of anti-Hitler plotters was to remove Hitler from power, they did so for various reasons.
The majority of the group behind the 20 July plot were conservative nationalists—idealists, but not necessarily of a democratic stripe.
Martin Borschat portrays their motivations to a matter of aristocratic resentment, writing that the plot was mainly carried out by conservative elites who were initially integrated by the Nazi government but during the war lost their influence and were concerned about regaining it.
Even so, the persons involved explained their opposition to Hitler as a matter of principled opposition to Nazi policies and actions.
Tresckow was appalled at SS murders of Russian prisoners.
Likewise, Stauffenberg had already decided that Hitler must be removed after learning of SS murders of prisoners of war and of Jews.
Goerdler, who was to have been Chancellor of the government installed after the coup, had publicly opposed anti-Jewish policies from the first.
And long after hopes of any negotiated peace had faded, Tresckow stated: "The assassination must be attempted, coûte que coûte [whatever the cost].
[Then,] even if it fails, we must take action in Berlin. . . . [W]hat matters now is that the German resistance movement must take the plunge before the eyes of the world and of history. Compared to that, nothing else matters."
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
Attentat vom 20. Juli 1944 Besichtigung der zerstörten Baracke im Führerhauptquartier "Wolfsschanze" bei Rastenburg, Ostpreußen (v.l.n.r.: X (SS), Martin Bormann, X (SS), Hermann Göring (Luftwaffe), Bruno Loerzer (Generaloberst der Luftwaffe); X (Luftwaffe))
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1972-025-10 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia.
The name Operation Valkyrie—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event.
The apparent aim of the assassination attempt was to wrest political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi Party (including the SS) and to make peace with the Western Allies as soon as possible.
The details of the conspirators' peace initiatives remain unknown, but they would have included unrealistic demands for the confirmation of Germany's extensive annexations of European territory.
The plot was the culmination of efforts by several groups in the German resistance to overthrow the Nazi German government. The failure of the assassination attempt and the intended military coup d'état that was to follow led the Gestapo to arrest more than 7,000 people, of whom they executed 4,980.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924) after signing an Indian treaty
Sly devil that he was.
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Acknowledgements
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Thanks to Kat C for her idea on podcasts.
And to Justin R and to Manny for immediately jumping aboard.
Thanks to Steven Wright for today’s chuckles.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
Good Morning
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Inglorious Bastards!
I keep a paper picture of Quentin T for his way of rewriting history to the emotional satisfaction of the audience.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon
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