Topic: Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus von Stauffenberg was a colonel in the German army during Hitler's reign. It was during Operation Barbarossa (an attack on Russia) in 1941 that Claus von Stauffenberg began to express his disgust at the German military's treatment of POWs ...

WW2: Operation Valkyrie

At midday on the 20th July 1944, Colonel Claus Von walked uneasily through the heavily guarded forest complex of FeildMarshall Keitel at the Wolfschanze, Hitler's headquarters for the eastern front in East Prussia. This turmoil and uncertainty paved the way for ...
Coups? Coups, like war, are one of the most violent tools of special services and one could be artificially staged in a target country by ? A good example is the attempt of anti-Nazi officers to assassinate Hitler in a coup. On July ...

Valkyrie film review

Directed by Bryan Singer under the United Artist studios, Valkyrie is a 2008 film that depicts the historical events leading up to the last known foiled assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler. There have been many, many assassination attempts of Adolf Hitler and ...
Tom Cruise's Count von Stauffenberg and Frank Langella's Richard Nixon are set to rule the box office this weekend. The relationship between Hollywood and history has rarely been closer, or more productive. After all, Hollywood and history have been conducting ...
Tom Cruise says role as anti-Hitler hero his career's most challenging filmTom Cruise says he felt a huge burden of responsibility to history in bringing the story of one of Germany's few anti-Nazi heroes to the screen.In " Valkyrie," Cruise ...

Cruise too 'stiff' to play would-be Hitler killer

Tom Cruise is too stiff and too short to play the would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler in his latest movie " Valkyrie," a descendant of the real-life plotter said in an interview published Sunday.Ahead of the film's release in Germany Thursday ...

Tom Cruise 'deeply moved' by Hitler movie

US actor Tom Cruise was " deeply moved" by playing the would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler in the movie "Valkyrie," he said in an interview with a German magazine released on Tuesday. "All I can say is that I was deeply moved by ...
Tom Cruise is distractingly bad as would-be Hitler assassin in `Valkyrie'Much ado has been made about " Valkyrie," starring Tom Cruise as would-be Hitler assassin Col. Claus von Stauffenberg.There is the release date, which has been moved around several times until ...
Tom Cruise puts himself on the line for Nazi thriller `Valkyrie'A Nazi-filled Christmas is not an easy sell. That's just one of the challenges Tom Cruise faces with his new World War II thriller "Valkyrie," which opens Dec. 25. In ...