Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel war ein deutscher General, der in Paris am 20. Juli 1944 die Umsturzpläne in die Tat umsetzte und dort die Funktionäre von SS und Gestapo festnehmen ließ.
Nach dem Scheitern des Attentats wurde er nach Berlin einbestellt. Unterwegs versuchte er, sich das Leben zu nehmen, indem er sich eine Kugel in den Kopf schoß. Sein Adjutant rettete den Schwerverletzten und brachte ihn in ein Lazarett, wo er kurz darauf von der Gestapo verhaftet wurde.
Von Freisler zum Tode verurteilt, wurde er am 30. August 1944 in Plötzensee hingerichtet. Carl-Heinrich Stülpnagel war 58 Jahre alt. R.I.P.
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Julius Caesar surrounded 80,000 men at Alesia in 52 BC.
Then he learned he was the one surrounded.
Vercingetorix retreated into the hilltop town with his army.
Caesar didn't storm it.
He starved it, cutting an 11-mile ring of trenches and stakes around the base so nothing could get in or out.
Then scouts reported a Gallic relief force marching to break the siege.
Some estimates put it near 250,000 men.
So Caesar built a second wall. Thirteen miles, facing outward, trapping his own legions between two enemy armies at once.
That's the detail that blew me away....the man doing the surrounding was also the one surrounded.
Caesar held both fronts, broke the relief force with a cavalry charge he led himself, and won.
Vercingetorix surrendered. Gaul stayed Roman for 500 years.
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