I find inspiration in this story. An extraordinary man, in extraordinary times, attempting an extraordinary operation, codename Valkyrie. This coup to eliminate Adolf Hitler and install a new government is not exactly well known in popular culture until this movie portrays an adaptation of this historic plot.

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a rather well decorated officer of the German army believed in a greater world without Hitler. Having lost an arm, two fingers and an eye to war, Stauffenberg just wanted to avoid more deaths in a pointless war against the Allied forces. He believed fervently in his principles for common good, even if it meant he would risk his life to commit high treason. And so, along with some other allies within the government and army, a remarkable plan was hatched to seize power and destroy the tyrannical regime of Hitler, in the process seeking truce with the Allied forces.

July 20, 1944, a most impressive German Resistance Movement kicked into gear… Stauffenberg personally planted a bomb in a briefing which included Hitler, then initiated phase 2 of the movement, Operation Valkyrie. Valkyrie involves mobilising the reserve troops in the event that all communications was severed with the army high command to assume control in Berlin and all the important German headquarters in Europe. Interestingly, Valkyrie was a pre-agreed operation by Hitler to retain power in the events of internal strife, and it is now used as a weapon to stage a coup against the man himself.

While history has shown that the attempt failed to destroy Hitler and his regime (the show suggested that it almost came close to a success, much much closer than history was), I believed Stauffenberg remains a pillar of motivation and inspiration to many people. This is an unsung (could-be) hero that we all ought to respect. Hail Stauffenberg!