Henning von Tresckow Quotes
It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?
His act, for which he and the other plotters paid with their lives, was indeed, one of the only acts of German resistance to the murderous, evil policies of the country with Hitler as leader. Germans of future generations and other people more than half a century later condemned an entire German generation because more Germans did not act as Tresckow did.
Henning von Tresckow, 1901–1944, German Major General of the Wehrmacht, Explanation to his co-conspirators as to why their plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler should go forward, June 1944, Quoted in Marcel Stein, Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait
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Muslim League leaders wanted to stir up India's Muslims in order to prevent Indian Independence from Britain unless India were partitioned and the Muslims could have their own nation. At that point the British and the Congress Party of India—the majority political party were both starting to plan for independence. Most of the Muslim nationalists did not want to have any Muslims living in a Majority Hindu nation. To stop it, they first used fear claiming that when the British left, the Hindus would massacre all the Muslims. They galvanized the Muslims to first attack the Hindus to dissuade then from their attacks which at that point were imaginary except in the conspiracy theory of the Muslim League. The moral logic of this statement was similar, albeit not to the same bloody degree, as the famous quotation of Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater on extremism." H. S. Suhrawardy
One of Germany's oldest universities had organized a book burning.
Just before the outbreak of hostilities of WWI. The German Social Democratic Party was a minority party in Germany and the majority was very anxious to go to war.
Brown was executed for trying to steal federal arms and start a slave rebellion. However, to many Americans, his moral judgment was correct. He became a martyr for many abolitionists, and some Northern Civil War songs extolled him and saw his as an early forerunner of a great moral struggle. See Thoreau {633849} as an example. There were many other Americans who were abolitionists and did not approve of either of the method his violent raid or its purpose of arming the slaves as they feared a bloodbath of vengeance.
Henning Hermann Karl Robert von Tresckow was an officer in the German Army who helped organize German resistance against Adolf Hitler. He attempted to assassinate Hitler on 13 March 1943 and drafted the Valkyrie plan for a coup against the German government. He was described by the Gestapo as the "prime mover" and the "evil spirit" behind the plot of 20 July 1944 to assassinate Hitler. He committed suicide at Królowy Most on the Eastern Front upon the plot's failure.
