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(June 2010 - Penultimate Report)
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg shouted "Long live holy Germany!" seconds before the bullets from guns of ten non-commissioned officers of the Guard Battalion shattered his body. He died on a sand pile in a courtyard in the early moments of July 21, 1944. He and three of his fellow officers executed with him had been arrested only hours earlier that night in the Bendlerstrasse building — housing the office of the German Home Army Command and General Army in Berlin. As a leader of the attempt (known as Valkyrie) to assassinate the German Furher and bring World War II to an end, earlier the previous morning Stauffenberg had planted a bomb near Adolf Hitler in the bunker at Wolfschanze.
A fellow collaborator, General Beck, had asked for a pistol to kill himself. He failed with two shots and was later given the coup de grace by a member of the firing squad. Stauffenberg, Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim, Lieutenant-General Olbricht, and Lientenant von Haeften had walked slowly, but bravely to their fate. Taken from the sand pile, the five bodies were first buried in a cemetery, but later in the day exhumed, cremated, and scattered in an open area. The subsequent Nazi round-up of identifiable participants in the plot, including Claus' brother Berthold, resulted in even more horrendous torture and executions.
Since that bloody night of totalitarian butchery, millions have wondered what Stauffenberg thought as he faced the firing squad as a martyr for his vision of a New Germany. It is doubtful many would have speculated that Claus expected to be born again and to continue working for a vision that had been nurtured by a few early 20th-century philosophers and poets. As a formal Catholic he should have been expected to join his Christian God in a heavenly realm.
However, the poet Stefan George and his devotees, including Claus and his two brothers, who promoted a new Germany also believed in reincarnation.* If neuroscience research into survival of human consciousness after death and emerging empirical evidence for a form of reincarnation stand the test of further scientific examination, one may reasonably imagine a different scenario for the soul leaving the smashed body falling backward on that sand pile. *(George claimed past-lives for himself and others and wrote poems about them.)
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