Ben,

To finish up the Valkyrie epic let me add the following:

As I had previously mentioned, “Valkyrie” is now observed on July 20th, as a German National Holiday. The day relates to a number of attempts over the years to dispose or kill Adolph Hitler. Valkyrie identifies several hundred of senior military officers and German citizens who were subsequently killed by Hitler and his Gestapo in an attempt to identify the planners. 

A museum, “German Resistance Memorial,” is located on an active military post, in the center of Berlin, near the Tiergarten. It is the courtyard identified in the Cruise movie Valkyrie, and it is the site where the conspirators conducted the planning. It was generally thought the Museum, and yesterdays memorial, was for the leaders of the Valkyrie attempt against Hitler, Generals, Olbrich, Beck, and Colonel Claus Graf Staufenberg. They were identified for years as “traitors” for their act and only recently known as “heroes.”  In fact, the ceremony and the museum is in honor of the thousands killed, as far back as the 1930’s.

The ceremony, was attended by several hundred, representing family and friends of those all those lost in opposition to Hitler. Plaques of the Valkyrie leadership “heroes” are posted in the museum courtyard. In keeping with european protocol massive floral wreaths covered the brass plate in the courtyard identifying the occasion. The street in front of the Military Post is named appropriately, Saufenbergstrasse.

I recommend Helena Schrader's publication "The Valkyrie Conspiracy." and her web site. She is an American Foreign Service Officer. <valkyrie=plot.com/index.html>

       Gene Frice F co