In the closing scene of the film Valkyrie, Hitler’s would-be assassin Count Stauffenberg, played by Tom Cruise, is about to be shot by a firing squad when his adjutant, Werner von Haeften, suddenly throws himself in front of him. The adjutant takes the bullets and Stauffenberg utters his last words, ‘Long live the secret Germany!’
Stephan Malinowski evokes this scene in the introduction of Nazis and Nobles, but it quickly becomes apparent that he has no time for hero worship. He quotes the oath of the resistance group: ‘We want a New Order that makes all Germans supporters of the state and guarantees them law and justice, but we scorn the lie of equality and bow before the hierarchies established by nature.’
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