Example sentences for: tresckow

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  • Axel von dem Bussche reeled in shock from a mass execution of Jews in the Ukraine; Peter Yorck von Wartenburg stated at his treason trial in 1944 that the escalation of anti-Semitism into genocide was the single cause of his "inner break" with Nazism (a claim that gained him nothing before a Nazi court); and Tresckow understood the genocidal implications of the orders accompanying plans for the Russian invasion.

  • Later that month, one of Tresckow's associates had a bomb wired to his body, and followed Hitler through an exhibition of military trophies; Hitler mysteriously exited through a side door.

  • Hamerow quotes a moving statement by Tresckow: "If God once promised Abraham that he would destroy Sodom if only 10 righteous men lived there, then I hope that because of us God will also not destroy Germany."

  • In March of 1943, Henning von Tresckow concealed a bomb in two bottles of Cointreau and had them carried onto Hitler's plane.

  • Departing dramatically from the cautious analysis that guides the main body of his book, Hamerow names Yorck and Tresckow in just such a circle of the righteous, "for whose sake God would spare Germany."


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