This week marked the first time that Valkyrie Cursed was on sale for free ever since its release. Just be reminded, that this is a very watered down version of history.Valkyrie Cursed reached a fantastic milestone on Saturday by topping the Women’s Fantasy Fiction chart on Amazon!
Bottom line: great movie and you should watch it. And I can't help but to point out, that most people don't even have the civil courage to demonstrate and protest in a free country with a democratic government. If you really think this through, you can not have enough respect for their courage. He had the explosives with him two times before and had to abort. Yes, I get that it is very difficult to portrait this conflict and the tremendous danger in a two hour movie, but I can't help it, I just feel that it doesn't give the audience a real picture of how daring this operation was and how nerve wracking this must have been (remember, this was the third attempt of Stauffenberg. This is where this movie falls a little short, because it shows Stauffenberg and others simply talking freely about their plans and their convictions. And you could never be sure who you could trust or who might be a spy or simply rat you out for personal gain. Organizing a conspiracy meant risking not only your life, but the life of everyone even remotely associated with you. So much as cracking a joke about the Fuehrer was reason enough to be imprisoned, investigated and executed.
Once Hitler was able to turn Germany into a dictatorship, it was extremely difficult to form any resistance. Though this made his party the leading one, he could only gain power because the politicians of the other parties thought they could control him.
As a matter of fact, he only received 36,8 % of the votes in the election. But Americans, who in general don't really have much understanding of history, fail to realize that Hitler wasn't voted into power by the people. Personally I think he was after all not a bad choice for this part and all in all I am very happy that there is an American movie that shows the different side of Germany and Germans in the Third Reich (there was a time when in every Hollywood Movie the villain were always Germans). I was curious about this movie since it had caused so much controversy with Tom Cruise in the main role.
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