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I would like to receive Newsletter from MICHELIN Guide Save lists of your favorite restaurants & hotels HistoryNet at their rambling country house in the village of Lautlingen in the rolling Swabian Alps of southern Germany With the war in its fifth year and taking an increasingly ominous turn for Germany most of the adult male members of the aristocratic Catholic clan—twins Alexander and Berthold and their brilliant younger brother Claus—were absent Presiding over the household of six boisterous children were Claus’s wife and their great-aunt Alexandrine; and their great-uncle Nikolaus Üxküll known to all as “Uncle Nux.” Only he knew that their lives were about to be shattered “By then the war was getting uncomfortably close,” Claus’s eldest son recalled in a recent interview—which made the escape from their house in Bamberg “Even in that provincial backwater there were constant air raids and raid alarms and I had to sit my school exams in an underground shelter The continual memorial services for those who had fallen at the front—at which I often served as a Catholic altar boy—were another grim reminder of the war We were fed a constant diet of propaganda promising us Endsieg or ‘final victory,’ in the state-controlled press and radio So keen a young Nazi was the then-10-year-old boy that he was bitterly disappointed to be just three days too young to join that year’s intake of the Jungvolk “My dearest wish was to march through Bamberg carrying a Nazi banner at the head of a youth parade,” said Berthold Count von Stauffenberg—a religious man with a philosophic bent and a lover of poetry—was about to become infamous for those anti-Nazi views At about the same time his family was sitting down to lunch at Lautlingen on that sweltering July day under a conference table at Wolfschanze (“Wolf’s Lair”) in an attempt to assassinate the führer and overthrow his regime Stauffenberg came within a hair’s breadth of accomplishing his goal when the bomb exploded at approximately 12:40 p.m. demolishing the room and killing three officers and a secretary But Hitler was merely wounded—and it was the Stauffenberg family instead that was torn apart in the aftermath of the attempted coup Young Berthold had not seen much of his father since the war began Thirty-six-year-old Colonel von Stauffenberg was a popular and able career soldier singled out by his superiors for a glittering future He had served as a staff officer in the conquest of Poland in 1939 Initially Stauffenberg gave the prewar Hitler regime the benefit of the doubt Nauseated by the mass murder of Jews and the treatment of civilian populations on the eastern front and by Hitler’s insatiable appetite for war and his reckless military incompetence Stauffenberg joined fellow officers in actively conspiring against Nazi rule Stauffenberg was posted to Tunisia as senior staff officer to the 10th Panzer Division for the last days of the North African campaign Rommel’s once-vaunted Afrika Korps was now penned in against the sea trapped by the Americans advancing from the west and the British from the east and in April Stauffenberg was seriously wounded when an American aircraft strafed his Horch staff car One officer in the back seat was killed and Stauffenberg he astonished doctors with the speed of his recovery Within weeks he had learned to dress himself using his teeth and his three remaining fingers His performance was so dexterous that he joked he didn’t know what he had ever used his other seven fingers for Stauffenberg joined his family at Lautlingen for a prolonged convalescence the conspiracy took on momentum as his fellow plotters got him assigned to a staff position with the Ersatzheer he directed revisions to Replacement Army mobilization orders code-named “Valkyrie,” as cover for a military putsch that would use its troops to overthrow the regime in the confusion following a successful assassination of Hitler The decision to topple Hitler weighed heavily on Stauffenberg to sacrifice the salvation of one’s own soul if one might thereby save thousands of lives a Replacement Army secretary who typed the orders he drafted that he was consciously “committing high treason.” He added that he had had to choose between action and inaction and as an active Christian there could only be one decision Stauffenberg was named Replacement Army chief of staff giving him regular access to Hitler at the führer’s military conferences As Germany’s military situation steadily worsened Stauffenberg worked to perfect the plot and overturn the regime in time to prevent a Soviet invasion of Germany Berthold saw his father just three times after he joined the Replacement Army: for two days at Christmas; in January at the funeral of Berthold’s maternal grandfather; and for a week’s leave in June 1944 which coincided with the Allied invasion of Normandy Despite Germany’s increasingly precarious position Berthold maintained his boyish belief in final victory—placing his faith in the V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets designed by Wernher von Braun and raining down on Britain even as the Allied armies closed in on the Reich “I had absolutely no idea what my father was planning and preparing nor did I realize how much my mother knew of his views.” For reasons of security save Uncle Nux and Claus’s brother Berthold—a fellow participant in the plot—were aware of Stauffenberg’s precise plans to kill Hitler But she knew of and shared her husband’s disgust with the increasingly criminal Nazi regime “The papers were full of the dire fate of those who listened to foreign radio stations or spread defeatist rumors,” said Berthold “Such cases usually ended in a death sentence.” In mid-1944 the situation looked increasingly grim and by mid-July In his briefcase he carried a bomb composed of plastic high explosive which he had decided—despite his crippling injuries—to prime and detonate himself at the earliest opportunity Only his closest confederates in the conspiracy knew this He had asked Nina to delay her departure to Lautlingen so that he might first speak with her and she had already made travel arrangements she and the children left Bamberg for Lautlingen There was quite a gathering that summer at the old family seat where Claus and his brothers had spent idyllic childhood vacations before the First World War Claus’s four children—Berthold and his three younger siblings: brothers Heimaren and Franz-Ludwig the five- and six-year-old children of their uncle Berthold Claus’s eldest son recalled with precise clarity how he learned of the event that shattered his family’s lives “On 21st July I heard a radio report of a ‘criminal attack on the führer,’” Berthold said and the adults tried to keep me and my next youngest brother Heimaren away from the radio we children were taken for a long country walk by our great-uncle Nux—a former general staff officer in the Austrian Imperial Army—who kept us entertained with stories of his youthful adventures as a big-game hunter in Africa,” said Berthold was a member of the anti-Hitler conspiracy I still ask myself what thoughts were going through his head during that walk.” Uncle Nux would be tried and hanged a few weeks later for his part in the plot Nina took her two eldest sons aside and gently told them that it was their father who had attempted to assassinate Hitler She also revealed that he had been executed by firing squad late that same day after the failure of his desperate attempts to launch the Valkyrie putsch in the wake of the bombing she told the boys that she was expecting her fifth child “Our world split apart at a stroke,” Berthold said “When I asked in perplexity why my father had wanted to kill the Führer my mother answered that he had believed that he had to do it for Germany’s sake “The news of the bomb attack came as a thunderbolt Not only did we love our always-cheerful father above all things; he was also the absolute authority over our lives—even if he was often absent soldiering The shock was so profound that I believe I was unable to think clearly about anything from that moment until the end of the war there was no time for thinking at all because from then on the blows started to fall on us thick and fast.” the Gestapo arrested Nina and Uncle Nux and took them to Berlin even Claus’s aging mother and aunt Alexandrine The Nazis were carrying out the brutal Sippenhaft (“kin detention”) decree under which not only the conspirators but their entire family remained at Lautlingen under the care of a nanny and their grandmother’s housekeeper—and under the watchful eyes of two Gestapo officials billeted at the house “Isolated as we were—even from our playmates in the village—we felt like outcasts from society,” recalled Berthold The only person we were allowed to see was the village priest and warned us that hard times might be coming for us he told us above all never to forget for what our father had died Only today do I realize how brave it was of him to say that.” Claus von Stauffenberg’s four children and his brother Berthold’s two were taken from their home and put on a train set amid the Harz Mountains of central Germany Here they were separated according to their age and gender and housed in chalets Over the next few weeks the children of other conspirators joined them Berthold was held in a chalet with around nine other boys roughly his age was a strict and authoritarian Nazi who proudly sported her party badge and the other staff treated the children of the “traitors” kindly Unlike many other Germans in the closing days of the war with a secular Nazi “grace” before meals replacing the religious prayers of their family “Our biggest deprivation was having no news from the outside world,” Berthold said and until Christmas 1944 we had no idea whether our mother was alive or dead.” Christmas brought a surprise gift they had not dared to hope for: an unexpected visit from their aunt Melitta who—partly because he was posted to occupied Greece and partly because of his dreamy unworldly nature—had not been made privy to the plot by his two brothers Melitta von Stauffenberg had forged a successful career as an aircraft designer and test pilot in the Luftwaffe reaching the rank of Flugkapitän and receiving the Iron Cross Her talents were so extraordinary—she specialized in dive-bombers and had made more than 2,000 test flights—that the Nazis willingly overlooked both her gender and her Jewish heritage Although she had been arrested along with Alexander under the Sippenhaft decree not only persuaded the Nazis to release her as the price of her continuing work as a test pilot she blew into Bad Sachsa at Christmas with an armful of presents and the news that Nina “That was the best Christmas present we could have wished for,” Berthold recalled the sympathetic Fraulein Verch told the children that their mother had given birth to a daughter that the Red Army occupied both Auschwitz and Hitler’s Wolfschanze headquarters—the scene of Stauffenberg’s abortive bombing the outlook for the children was darkening Hitler had insisted that the very name “Stauffenberg” be wiped from history The decision was made to rename the children “Meister” and to have them adopted by a loyal Nazi—even possibly SS—family and brought up accordingly The first step was to remove them from their relatively comfortable quarters at Bad Sachsa and send them to the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp Only a miraculous twist of fate prevented this The Stauffenberg children departed for Buchenwald on Easter traveling in an army truck to the Nordhausen railway station to board a train for the camp They were on the outskirts of Nordhausen when an Allied air raid hit the town “It destroyed the whole quarter around the station including the station itself,” Berthold remembered “The Nazis had no option but to take us back to Bad Sachsa the American 104th “Timberwolf” Infantry Division arrived in Nordhausen But German resistance in the hills and woods around the town was stubborn Army had to threaten to level those parts of the town still standing before its residents surrendered Mustangs and Lightnings roaring overhead,” Berthold recalled “Once the war got too close for comfort when the strawberry patch in the chalet’s garden got shot up.” American soldiers searched the chalet and the mayor of Nordhausen arrived to tell its occupants they were free Although two nurses remained behind to look after the children they were largely left to their own devices and spent the time roaming the local woods in search of spent ammunition and other war booty the children’s great-aunt Alexandrine arrived in a Red Cross bus She had come to take them home to Lautlingen where their world had fallen apart almost a year before Berthold and his siblings mourned the deaths of their father and their great-uncle Nux—all executed by the Nazis—and of their maternal grandmother Their brave aunt Melitta had also perished the plane she’d been flying to visit her husband had been strafed by an American fighter Although she had managed to land the plane miraculously arrived at Lautlingen—cradling her new daughter Konstanze She filled in the story of the missing months: after her arrest she had been brought to Gestapo headquarters in Berlin and intensively interrogated about her husband From there she was moved to the women’s concentration camp at Ravensbrück and to a maternity home to give birth; then mother and baby were hastily evacuated by train ahead of the advancing Red Army They picked up an infection on the overcrowded train and were treated in a hospital at Potsdam before being entrusted to a single policeman “He was supposed to take them to Schonberg where other Sippenhaft captives were held but the war was almost over and his only wish was to go home,” said Berthold “Before abandoning them to their fate he got my mother to write him a certificate saying that he had done his duty as far as he could—so very German!” Left near the town of Hof Nina and baby Konstanze had become the first Sippenhaft captives to be freed by the U.S “Not that anyone felt very free in the devastated state that was Germany,” Berthold said The home at Lautlingen became a sanctuary for frightened villagers after French Moroccan troops occupying the village ran amok The refugees at the house also briefly included the families of the Gestapo officials who had been billeted there Berthold watched the luckless remnants of the Vlasov Army—a force of Russian renegades who had fought with the Germans against their Communist countrymen and who his father had helped raise and equip—being herded onto trains for forced repatriation to Stalin’s tender mercies the surviving Stauffenbergs began to pick up the pieces of their lives for instance—which had been used by the U.S Intelligence Corps and was badly damaged—was not restored to them until 1953 and they had to wage a long legal battle to win back much of their family property Berthold eventually chose to follow in his father’s footsteps becoming a soldier in the West German Bundeswehr But circumstances dictated a very different military career from his father’s spent most of his years of service in the cold war preparing for another war with Russia that never came he has lived out his life under his father’s long shadow when there were many senior officers who had known my father Claus von Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt on Hitler was the basis for the movie Valkyrie. Read a review of the film and an interview with its screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie   Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance how Wild Bill Donovan shaped the American intelligence community During the 1835–42 Second Seminole War and as Army scouts out West these warriors from the South proved formidable “History is 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My father demanded an explanation from his mother about what she did during the Holocaust It is housed inside a former Jewish girls’ school The architecture has been painstakingly preserved from the tiled floors and cement walls to the institutionally prescribed bathrooms updated only by new stall doors and fancy towelettes The restaurant is in the former gymnasium: a simple square room that has been transformed with green velvet banquettes and an enormous red rocket above the open kitchen The food is a modern take on traditional German dishes: hearty and delicious I walked slowly past the placards explaining the history of the building It was designed in the late 19th century by a Jewish architect who died in the Theresienstadt ghetto The Nazis closed the Jewish girls’ school in 1933 and the vast majority of the students met their ends in death camps in Poland In 1996 it was finally returned to the Jewish Community of Berlin by the Claims Conference The German Jewish Council rents it out to entrepreneurs But he also rejected her – and his sister (who took his mother’s side) He left the country and excluded both from his wedding my aunt and grandmother called my father’s decision a “Trennungstrauma” (separation trauma) and felt bitter that in rejecting the country of his birth he had also rejected them; he seemed to hold them personally responsible for Germany’s crimes This made visits to Germany with my parents tense and sad The country felt like home to me: I remember looking forward to the smell of my grandmother’s house (a combination of marzipan cooking lard and her perfume) and the sound of her voice my father brought his mother books about the Holocaust which she leafed through but probably never read He had little sympathy for her protests: that she wasn’t political (“to be apolitical is a political position!” he would scold her); that she was too busy hiding her family in the bomb cellar; or coping with the grief of her husband’s death on the Russian front in 1942 a concentration camp close to where she lived she became very depressed and my aunt berated my father for exposing her to such a terrible place couldn’t abide his mother’s sensitivity – as if she herself was being victimized as the Jews had been I do not imagine my family to be so very different from other German families coping with the burden of crimes committed in their names How do successive generations cope with the past under these conditions in which those who committed the crime – a whole generation – refused to take responsibility Almost every German I know has questions and stories about a relative’s mysterious actions during the Nazi period Yet the moral indignation expressed by my father and others of his generation was certainly not the norm; the vast majority preferred to sweep the past under the rug Germany has done a very good job of confronting its past Who else builds a memorial to its own crimes the size of two football fields in the centre of its capital Where else do you have an almost daily discussion in the media of the atrocities of the past But many Germans greeted the process with resentment; they didn’t want an investigation into their parents’ past national level is very different from a personal admission of guilt My father demanded an explanation from his mother even after Germany had begun to acknowledge its crimes Why did she insist that “it wasn’t all bad back then” Why didn’t she object to the bust of Hitler in her friend’s living room This deduction was central to the lessons he taught me and is now very much part of what I teach students about the slippery slope of indifference When individuals refuse to accept responsibility for crimes that were committed with their tacit consent repeated.  The motto for International Holocaust Remembrance Day is “never forget.” For my father this must be more than a slogan remembered on one day a year It must be a collective reckoning not only by governments but by the individuals who supported allowed or simply turned away from the brutality and tyranny of oppression and mass murder This personal reckoning has not taken place in Germany The divide between the official government position – welcoming more than 1.5 million refugees since 2016 – and the growing populace of resentful right-wing nationalists attest to a great chasm between official German atonement for Nazi crimes and personal unwillingness to recognize that individual Germans made those crimes possible was uneasy when I told him about my dinner at Pauly Saal For Germans of my generation living in Berlin the discomfort also lingers: recounting my dinner to a friend she worried that the Holocaust would become nothing but bittersweet folklore she recognized that more people might learn something by eating at this fancy restaurant than if it had been turned into yet another museum This process of confronting the past is complicated and uncomfortable and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" We should all feel the discomfort and shame of not confronting the reality of what happens before our eyes We need to remember "never again." I pray for peace I can’t help but to think of the plight of Canada’s Indigenous peoples Many generations of Canadians have turned a blind eye to our government’s devastating policies and disparaging relationship with First Nations My body is covered in shivers as I read this article I was born in 1943 and arrived in Canada in 1952 I remember bombed-out buildings in Germany and discrimination in Canada How we confront the past is also very important This is a very well written article with a unique perspective Looking at past atrocities through your father’s lens is critical to avoid the ‘slippery slope’ that you spoke of so clearly It is my wish that Canadians make intelligent decisions when it comes to our struggles regarding immigration policies Being the child of parents who lived in Germany during the Second World War -- their war not my war -- I'm disturbed by your statement that confronting the past "must continue." You need to visualize what it was like to live in Germany during the war If you refused to be conscripted into the army The secret police had informers everywhere Speak out and you got visitors in leather coats My dad saw Polish workers who dated German women hung on lamp posts I disagree with Rebecca Wittmann's statement that today’s Germans are not as remorseful as the German government I was born in 1939 and came to Canada in 1961 I have been going back to Germany almost yearly I am always pleasantly surprised by how today’s Germans are still ashamed and remorseful They are definitely not forgetting the horrors of their war and are acutely aware of possible future danger The reason that the right-wing party is growing is because of the inequalities in the Western world We all have to guard against populism regardless of where you live a Catholic priest who hid and saved 2,000 Jewish people during the Second World War was captured and eventually sent to Auschwitz Maximilian Kolbe calmly led them in prayers the soldiers gave him a lethal injection of carbolic acid He once said: “the most deadly poison of our time is indifference.” The question really becomes: How can we as a society not speak up against abortion (the killing of an innocent life) and euthanasia (lethal injections given to the weak and vulnerable or the deliberate withholding of fluids and nutrition) We must all speak for those who cannot stand up for themselves Implicit in this article is the failure of most European and some Asian countries to acknowledge and atone for centuries of colonial meddling Nationalism and aggressive colonial adventurism leading to wholesale "warfare" against subjugated Indigenous populations and to two "world wars," are glorified by many historians as discovery trade expansion and accumulation of wealth ethics or moral system can guard against the human will to survive even if it means destroying others We can never make ourselves "great again" until we acknowledge how evil and "ungreat" our past has been I think the way the author's father treated his mother was overly harsh Causing her depression decades after the end of the war will not change history or the future I was working in the Karlsruhe area of Germany in the summer of 1972 when I received tickets to attend the Munich Olympics West Germany wanted to put the Berlin ("Hitler") Olympics of 1936 behind it and show that it was part of the new democratic world the terrorist incident involving Israeli athletes occurred What I remember most about that was how my German colleagues (who were born during the Second World War or shortly after) were concerned about the incident reviving memories of the war and about being blamed for its atrocities I did notice much greater recognition and awareness of the war and its atrocities Germany and Germans should feel remorseful for the evil of the Holocaust It’s admirable that they have taken steps to remember and to make financial restitution It's good for those who have hurt others to ask for forgiveness; it's also good for those who have been wronged to forgive Let’s also remember that it’s easy to apologize for others’ sins and much harder to recognize that each of us is capable of being selfish and apathetic in the face of evil It’s difficult to recognize evil in our own lives we might be better served making sure we are not silent about anti-Semitism today it’s easy to talk about the Nazis’ so-called “master race” and ignore the fact that some parents choose to abort fetuses with Down Syndrome or other conditions Rather than feeling superior to Americans and Germans who want to accept refugees only after careful vetting and who want to accept fewer economic migrants perhaps we should remember that Canadians are being spared these decisions by the three oceans on our shores More personal soul-searching and less virtue signalling would be helpful I love the reminder that state apologies (such as Canada's apology about the residential schools) do not excuse or replace individual responsibility Canada has apologized but we continue to seize children for foster care rather than support families; we underfund indigenous schools; we fail to provide clean drinking water; we poison lakes and rivers; we fail to provide adequate health care Complicity and silence are deadly and pervasive What do you suppose would have happened to anyone who publicly objected to the Nazi government's policies Those who did were exceptionally brave people but I wouldn't have been able to do it @Caroline: People stop eating and drinking as part of the natural process of dying It is one way that we know that the end of a life is approaching if we want to say that we should not abort those fetuses that are less than perfect then we should be prepared to assist the parents in caring for them once they are born The big question for me is what proportion of the German population enthusiastically supported the actions taken against the Jews and other so-called “enemies” of the people These Germans (and Austrians) may not necessarily all have supported outright murder and extermination but the confiscation and plunder of Jewish assets institutions and professions and ghettoisation and deportation were certainly welcomed 99 per cent of Germans from that time are complicit whether or not they actually pulled a trigger to kill a civilian or released Zyklon B pellets into a gas chamber Self-flaggelation for crimes committed by previous generations is not healthy for any nation To compromise future generations is a bad course of action I look at your father's pursuit of the truth as an act of courage and personal strength particularly as the path essentially led him to reject his own family I very much appreciate and respect the path he took and also your commitment to continuing his legacy in your teaching and writing The MICHELIN Guide announces top honors for German hotels in 2024 Subscribe to our newsletter for more hotel and restaurant highlights. 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See more: The ins and outs of all our Three Key hotels in Germany See more: Inside Wilmina, Berlin's Former Prison Turned One Key Hotel We\u2019re constantly astounded at the ease and expertise with which German hoteliers handle Alpine hospitality although it may have something to do with the sheer amount of time they\u2019ve been practicing Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Today the Spanish newspaper El Pais published documents which proove connections between San Sebastian and Fuentes In these documentes you can find the abbreviation „R.Soc“ for Real Sociedad (San Sebastian) as well Inaki Baldiola has been president of San Sebastian from January until December 2008 He ordered auditors to investigate the accounts of the preceding years At these investigations the slush fund was found Some account movements can be matched to handwritten notices of Fuentes which are tagged with the name „Asti“ Former president denied the allegations but didn’t give further comment If San Sebastian really paid more than 300.000 Euro a year for doping substances there were more than 10.000 Euro a year for every player No one can say from the documents up to now if and how many players got doped But the teams of San Sebastian from 2001 to 2008 are at least suspicious now Even Germany played its role at San Sebastians doping a small role: On a document Fuentes noted „Choina“ as a source for meds Markus Choina had a doctor’s office in Bad Sachsa for years and was named several times as a source of Eufemiano Fuentes Among others the German cyclist Jörg Jaksche incriminated him: Choina gave him blood transfusions The public prosecutor of Göttingen abandoned the case against Choina 2010 and let him go with a sentence of 5000 Euro Fuentes allegedly named this med „the German med“ isn’t on the WADA list of illegal substances but WADA observes it carefully Yesterday the national coach of Spain, Vicente Del Bosque, said: „I have not seen [doping] before If you would like to securely leak information and documents to us, please visit this page Unsere Reporterinnen und Reporter senden Ihnen Recherchen was Journalismus für unsere Gesellschaft leisten kann – regelmäßig oder immer dann