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Entry: Rewriting History Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/rewriting_history#18432 Post contents: Overall an excellent article. A few quibbles. Von Stauffenberg's bomb did detonate properly and should have killed everyone in the room. Placement against a table partition seems to have channeled the blast away from Hitler. Survivors claim that the bomb was moved by a conference participant after von Stauffenberg left the room. Obviously this was very bad luck for all those who had to endure Hitler's "leadership" for the remainder of the war. I don't think von Stauffenberg considered himself to be on a suicide mission. He left the bunker in order to deliver the news of Hitlers death and to help organize the putsch. He was a very brave man never the less and knew that he was taking a terrible chance. Another reason for neo-con animus toward von Stauffenberg would be his status as an aristocrat. Many if not most German and Austrian aristocrats were anti-Nazi. Certainly the Nazi's were anti-aristocratic, although they did try to recruit young aristo's into the SS with some success. The Neo-con's instinctive loathing of the noble, upright or traditional is a revealing glimpse into their left-egalitarian rejection of traditional Christian culture. Nothing threatens them more than the image of an idealism they cannot control. Sent at: 2008 11 22