Two tales of the July 20 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler

Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise condescended to do a version of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944, "Valkyrie", in 2008. I enjoyed it, and, it is very entertaining indeed. And, you see, that is the problem, precisely! Because, I'm afraid, events like the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler, in 1944, were certainly not entertaining at all. Although the film sticks fairly closely to the actual historical events that occurred in this incident, in a superficial sort of way, the entire psychology of the film is 180 degrees off from the psychology at the time. You see, everybody seems to be rather nice, even the senior Nazis, and everybody seems to be having a fair amount of fun. No one seems very stressed out, at all. And, that certainly is not the way people felt at the time. Quite the opposite, actually. Everyone was frightened, desperate, paranoid as Hell, and, with good reason. What Tom Cruise is doing, is creating a "feel good" film about the asssassination. Like "wouldn't it be fun, and great, if we could kill Hitler? Then, everything would be great again in Germany, right?" This is consistent with traditional American optimism, that all we have to do, is get along, and work hard, and everything will be fine. This is the Any Rand objectivist philosophy "Blue skies, smiling at me, nothing but blue skies, do I see." This message of absolute social conformity is certainly NOT what motivated the conspirators, at the time. Quite the opposite, actually, as we can immediately, and readily see in the extremely realistic portrayal of these same events in the film July 20, 1944, produced in Germany in 1956, just twelve years after the events in question, by people who would all have been well aware of exactly the situation, at the time. People are terrified, they don't know what to do, so, they think they try a desperate "roll of the dice", to see if it helps. They don't think they'll succeed, they don't even particuarly think it would help, if it did succeed, but, they know they have to try something, because the current situation is intolerable. And, in human history, that is usually how real progress actually occurs. Desperation, fear, uncertainty. No blue skys before, or after. Just darkness, occasionally shot through with blinding light.