I regard him as being a highly respectable and respected general. However, there's no getting around his devotion to Hitler and his expressed devotion to NAZI ideals, including anti-Semitism...
Anthropoid (film about the killing of Heydrich)
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You know, I don't think the depth of his involvement in the plot will ever be untangled. There's no doubt about his disillusionment and his sympathy with Hitler's removal, although he favored trial. In the end, it doesn't matter...
I guess that was what Operation Anthropoid was about. Showing that Czechoslovaks were not lying down for and collaborating with the Nazi regime. It was always a long shot, and the Nazis abused the crap out of Czechoslovakia for the Heydrich killing, but the operation showed that there were Czechoslovaks who resisted, despite the dangers.
The film shows a bit of the collaborator/patriot split. It is not comfortable but they do not paint over that moral quandary. Not all Czechoslovaks were onside with the government in exile. Some were trying to navigate the moral minefield of Nazi occupation.
Everybody who was anybody in Hollywood was in that film.
Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt calls Jodl to ask for the release of the Panzer reserves and Jodl says he cannot without Hitler's approval and Hitler is sleeping.
Blumentritt says, ""der führer schläft noch immer."
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A mini-series on Netflix called Generation War does a great job of showing the German populace mood during the middle and end of the war. If you have access to Netflix, I'd highly suggest y'all watch it. It is in German subtitles, and I believe it was produced in Germany.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmyGPX23px4
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmyGPX23px4
I watched Generation War (Our Mothers and Our Fathers in German). It was interesting. It caused a bit of a stir in Germany over the legacy of the WW II generation. Not every German soldiers was a Jew-hating Nazi. Many were just fighting because their government told them to.
There was a German museum exhibit that traveled around Germany and Austria a decade or more ago. The film Der Unbekannte Soldat (The unknown soldier) documents the museum exhibit.
My next door neighbor, whom I've mentioned before, has told me that the claims by some that they knew nothing about the Holocaust was poppycock. She said that a common parental threat to children was "behave or you'll go up the chimney." She went on to explain that there was nothing anyone could do, anyway. Looking at the power and control of the NAZI party, I don't know how it's possible to quarrel with her point. In my SIL's case, his uncle and aunt, who lived with his parents were taken away and murdered because they were developmentally disabled. That was before he was born, but you can imagine what his attitude towards the NAZIs is. In fact, he's pretty far left in his views, in part, I'm sure because of that history...
I think that collaboration/cooperation/resistance is really a spectrum of shades of gray. The harshest consequences seem to have been reserved for sexual complicity by women...
I took the German history classes at ten Hoor and I was very surprised that the number of accounts of ordinary German citizens just following what the government told them, and how many of them actually disagreed or opposed the government policy, particularly its racial policy. That's not to say there were Germans that weren't ALL IN on the Nazi ideology, but I'd say there were more just going along with the flow instead of being passionate for the cause.
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