Who in the building blown up by Stauffenberg's had a connection to the resistance ?little grey rabbit wrote:Gisevius didn't like Stauffenberg much. He told Dulles that Stauffenberg was intending to deal exclusively with the Soviets and open up the Eastern Front. Or maybe Dulles made that up to try and encourage Washington to deal with the Resistance.
If Stauffenberg had been truly courageous he would have not chosen a time delayed fuse and scarpered. As it is everyone who died in his explosion seemed to have some connection with the Wehrmacht resistance.
Stauffenberg at no other time showed any signs of being lacking in courage, it seems a cheap shot to criticize him for lack of courage for not staying to die with his bomb. Any reasonable person would have expected it to work. We just know from the comfort of hindsight that it probably would have been more successful if he had stayed.
But Stauffenberg was aware that the resistance was lacking for leaders and knew his leadership was still needed.