Chapter 5

The Dirge of the Black Orchestra

Adolf Hitler – Nazi War Lord

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg – Nazi War Hero, Anti-Nazi Hero, and Failed Assassin

Adolf Hitler was the target of over forty assassination attempts during his political career, but none were more dramatic than the one executed by the German aristocrat and Nazi war hero, Col. Claus von Stauffenberg. The ancestry, accomplishments, ambition, and final demise of Hitler and Stauffenberg are compared.

The lives of Hitler and the failed assassin Col. Stauffenberg are examined, as well as their relationship with the anti-Nazi groups of the Kreisau Circle and Black Orchestra. Other people and issues examined are Hitler’s peculiar ancestry, The German novelist who wrote of the American genocide of Indians that inspired Hitler, Hitler’s role as a German Army spy, the English novelist and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien, OSS Chief William Donovan, the Beer Hall Putsch, Landsberg prison, The Protocols of Zion, the anti-Semitic Scotsman Thomas Carlyle who was one of Hitler’s favorite German historians, the Philby-Saud-Dulles link that supported the Nazi regime with Middle East oil, the inspiration Henry Ford gave Hitler, the mystical poet Stefan George’s influence on Stauffenberg, the probable syphilitic infection of Hitler from a Jewish prostitute in Vienna, the Jewish clairvoyant for the Third Reich Jan Hanussen, the influential occultists (Rosenberg, Eckart, and Himmler), the Third Reich's hand in the Balkan Holocaust, Hitler’s boyhood relationship with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Wolfsshanze bombing with its horrible aftermath.