By Philip Freiherr Von Boeselager, Florence Fehrenbach, Jerome Fehrenbach, Steven Rendall

Whilst the second one global battle broke out, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, then 25-years-old, fought enthusiastically for Germany as a cavalry officer. yet after learning Nazi crimes, von Boeselager’s patriotism speedy grew to become to disgust, and he joined a gaggle of conspirators who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. during this dependent yet unflinching memoir, von Boeselager provides voice to the spirit of the small yet decided band of fellows who took a stand opposed to the 3rd Reich in what culminating within the failed “Valkyrie” plot—one of the main attention-grabbing close to misses of twentieth-century background.

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He rose to the rank of commanding lieutenant, only to join the German resistance in 1941. His participation in Valkyrie went undetected, and he lived to be the last surviving member of the plot. In 2003, France awarded von Boeselager the Legion of Honor. He died on May 1, 2008. Florence Fehrenbach is the granddaughter of Karl von Wendt, a coconspirator and close friend of Philipp von Boeselager. She and her husband, Jérôme Fehrenbach, convinced Boeselager, at the age of eighty-nine, to recount his experience.

He hunted all over the Continent and spoke four or five languages. Because of this, he attached particular importance to learning how to make proper use of freedom—and the capacity for Christian discernment that was for him its corollary—and also to hunting. Georg received his first rifle as a Christmas present in 1928, when he was only thirteen years old. At fifteen, my brother’s list of kills already included some 150 head of game. His passion was such that he managed to sneak a disassembled rifle into our boarding school in Bad Godesberg—with my complicity, I must admit.

His passion was such that he managed to sneak a disassembled rifle into our boarding school in Bad Godesberg—with my complicity, I must admit. When the housemaster Father Strasser made the rounds of the bedrooms to check the students’ bags, we were forced once again to engage in a ruse. Each of us slipped part of the rifle into his shorts—Georg the barrel and I the stock—while the inspection took place. The maneuver was acrobatic, because it was strictly forbidden to put our hands in our pockets, but we somehow had to prevent the parts of the rifle from slipping out.

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