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99.9% Historcially accurate
by Erwin Alois (movies profile)
Dec 27, 2008
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I think the movie decpits the events around July 20th 1944 with 99.9% accuracy. I am from Germany and studied the German Resistance movement and the plot of July 20th 1944 in detail. There are only minor tweaks to the story that are really irrelevant, such as the fact that General Beck was taken to a different room to shoot himself, he did not shoot himself in the same room that the other conspirators were lined up.
I do not like Tom Cruise for various reasons, but I think he did an outstanding job of acting as Oberst i.G. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg. I did not mind the American accent, in the first scene his German was outstanding without any accent.
I higly recommedn anybody watching this movie, as the average American has no idea that there were over 10 attempts on Hitler's life.
Also an important fact to note, some German Historians estimate the number of members of the German Resistance killed after July 20th 1944 in the thousands. Another fact, if the German heros that tried to eliminate Hitler that day would have succeeded they could have saved millions of lives by ending the war quickly. There were more people killed from July 20th 1944 to May 8th 1945 than in the previous 5 years of war.
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