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Valkyrie is a 2008 thriller film [5] directed by Bryan Singer, written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, starring Tom Cruise.The film is set in Nazi Germany during World War II and depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country.
The 20 July plot was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and leader of Nazi Germany, and overthrow the Nazi regime on 20 July 1944. The plotters were part of the German resistance, mainly composed of Wehrmacht officers. [ 1][ 2] The leader of the conspiracy, Claus von Stauffenberg, tried to kill Hitler by detonating an ...
Operation Valkyrie 2 cover in the Bundesarchiv.. Operation Valkyrie (German: Unternehmen Walküre) was a German World War II emergency continuity-of-government operations plan issued to the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany to implement in the event of a general breakdown in national civil order due to Allied bombing of German cities, or an uprising of the millions of foreign forced ...
Dec 25, 2008 · Valkyrie: Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson. A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
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- Drama, History, Thriller
- Bryan Singer
- 2008-12-25
Dec 22, 2022 · Valkyrie True Story: The July 20 Plot To Kill Hitler Explained. The 2008 Tom Cruise movie Valkyrie is a historical period piece about the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Cruise has a unique filmography for one of the world's biggest movie stars. He has rarely played a real-life figure, as nearly all of his roles have been original ...
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Jan 9, 2022 · Olbricht was appointed in 1940, and quietly started working on a plan that he code-named Valkyrie. Even as more and more German soldiers died in the field, Olbricht started drawing up plans for things like sending the army into Berlin to quell unrest. Only, that wasn't exactly all the plans were.
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Aug 20, 2008 · Claus von Stauffenberg: the true story behind the film Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise On 20 July 1944, a German colonel left a bomb in the Führer's office. It exploded, just missing its target ...
