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Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, the Glossary

Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal (23 February 1907 – 13 October 1944) was a German aristocrat and Army officer in the Second World War who was executed by the Nazi régime for his role in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.^[1]

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Black Reichswehr personnel
Executed monarchists in the German Resistance
Military personnel from Potsdam
People from Brandenburg executed at Plötzensee Prison
Stahlhelm members

Abwehr

The Abwehr (German for resistance or defence, though the word usually means counterintelligence in a military context) was the German military-intelligence service for the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim

Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (25 March 1905 – 21 July 1944) was a German Army colonel and a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany involved in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim are Executed members of the 20 July plot and German Army officers of World War II.

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Albrecht von Blumenthal

Albrecht von Blumenthal (10 August 1889 – 28 March 1945) was a Classicist professor and soldier.

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Alsace

Alsace (Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: Elsàss ˈɛlsɑs; German: Elsass (German spelling before 1996: Elsaß.) ˈɛlzas ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Appeasement

Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict.

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Arrondissement of Neufchâteau, Belgium

The Arrondissement of Neufchâteau (Arrondissement de Neufchâteau; Arrondissement Neufchâteau) is one of the five administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Luxembourg, Belgium.

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Battalion

A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into a number of companies, each typically commanded by a major or a captain.

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Bendlerblock

The Bendlerblock is a building complex in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany, located on Stauffenbergstraße (formerly named Bendlerstraße).

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Blumenthal family

The Blumenthal family is a Lutheran and Roman Catholic German noble family, originally from Brandenburg-Prussia.

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Borsig

Borsig is a surname.

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Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Claus von Stauffenberg are counts in Germany, Executed members of the 20 July plot and German Army officers of World War II.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Confessing Church

The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.

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Coup d'état

A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten

Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (German: 'The Steel Helmet, League of Front-Line Soldiers'), commonly known as Der Stahlhelm ('The Steel Helmet'), was a German First World War veteran's organisation existing from 1918 to 1935.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Dietrich Bonhoeffer are Executed members of the 20 July plot.

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Edda Mussolini

Edda Ciano, Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari (née Mussolini; 1 September 1910 – 9 April 1995) was the daughter of Benito Mussolini, fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943.

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Erwin von Witzleben

Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Erwin von Witzleben are Executed members of the 20 July plot and people executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison.

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Fabian von Schlabrendorff

Fabian Ludwig Georg Adolf Kurt von Schlabrendorff (1 July 1907 – 3 September 1980) was a German jurist, soldier, and member of the German resistance against Adolf Hitler. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Fabian von Schlabrendorff are German Army officers of World War II.

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Federal Europe

A federal Europe, also referred to as the United States of Europe (USE), European State, or a European federation, is a hypothetical scenario of European integration leading to the formation of a sovereign superstate (similar to the United States of America), organised as a federation of the member countries of the European Union (EU), as contemplated by political scientists, politicians, geographers, historians, futurologists and fiction writers.

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German Army (1935–1945)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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German National People's Party

The German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative and monarchist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic.

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German nobility

The German nobility (deutscher Adel) and royalty were status groups of the medieval society in Central Europe, which enjoyed certain privileges relative to other people under the laws and customs in the German-speaking area, until the beginning of the 20th century.

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German Resistance Memorial Center

The German Resistance Memorial Center (Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) is a memorial and museum in Berlin, capital of Germany.

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German resistance to Nazism

Many individuals and groups in Germany that were opposed to the Nazi regime engaged in resistance, including attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler or to overthrow his regime.

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Gestapo

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

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Gymnasium (school)

Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Hans Oster

Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Hans Oster are Executed members of the 20 July plot.

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Hans von Dohnanyi

Hans von Dohnanyi (originally Johann von Dohnányi; 1 January 1902 – 8 or 9 April 1945) was a German jurist. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Hans von Dohnanyi are Executed members of the 20 July plot.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal.

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House of Hohenzollern

The House of Hohenzollern (Haus Hohenzollern,; Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania.

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Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

Hyperinflation affected the German Papiermark, the currency of the Weimar Republic, between 1921 and 1923, primarily in 1923.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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Ludwig Beck

Ludwig August Theodor Beck (29 June 1880 – 20 July 1944) was a German general and Chief of the German General Staff during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Ludwig Beck are Executed members of the 20 July plot and German Army officers of World War II.

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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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Major (Germany)

Major is the lowest staff officer rank in the German Army, German Air Force.

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Monarchism

Monarchism is the advocacy of the system of monarchy or monarchical rule.

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Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Neustrelitz

Neustrelitz (Niegenstrelitz) is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940.

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Night of the Long Knives

The Night of the Long Knives (Nacht der langen Messer), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (Unternehmen Kolibri), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934.

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Oberkommando des Heeres

The Oberkommando des Heeres (abbreviated OKH) was the high command of the Army of Nazi Germany.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.

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Operation Valkyrie

Operation Valkyrie (Unternehmen Walküre) was a German World War II emergency continuity-of-government operations plan issued to the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany to implement in the event of a general breakdown in national civil order due to Allied bombing of German cities, or an uprising of the millions of foreign forced labourers working in German factories.

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Oster

Oster (Остер,; Ostyor) is a city in Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964), popularly known as the Lion of Africa (Löwe von Afrika), was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign.

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People's Court (Germany)

The People's Court (Volksgerichtshof, acronymed to VGH) was a Sondergericht ("special court") of Nazi Germany, set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law.

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Phoney War

The Phoney War (Drôle de guerre; Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.

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Plötzensee Prison

Plötzensee Prison (Justizvollzugsanstalt Plötzensee, JVA Plötzensee) is a men's prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity for 577 prisoners, operated by the State of Berlin judicial administration.

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Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.

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Prignitz

Prignitz is a Kreis (district) in northwestern Brandenburg, Germany.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.

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Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940)

Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf of Prussia (4 July 1906 – 26 May 1940) was the eldest child of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940) are Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni, people from the Province of Brandenburg and university of Königsberg alumni.

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Prussian Army

The Royal Prussian Army (1701–1919, Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken (Saar Bridges; Rhenish Franconian: Sabrigge; Sarrebruck; Saarbrécken; Saravipons) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany.

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Schulenburg (surname)

The House of Schulenburg is the name of an old German noble family that goes back to 13th century.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.

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Siegfried Wagner

Siegfried Helferich Richard Wagner (6 June 18694 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stefan George

Stefan Anton George (12 July 18684 December 1933) was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire.

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Sturmabteilung

The Sturmabteilung (SA; literally "Storm Division" or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.

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Sturmbannführer

Sturmbannführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank equivalent to major that was used in several Nazi organizations, such as the SA, SS, and the NSFK.

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Szczecin

Szczecin (Stettin; Stettin; Sedinum or Stetinum) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland.

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Tomaszew, Masovian Voivodeship

Tomaszew is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiskitki, within Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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University of Königsberg

The University of Königsberg (Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Wilhelm Canaris

Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German admiral and the chief of the Abwehr (the German military-intelligence service) from 1935 to 1944. Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and Wilhelm Canaris are Executed members of the 20 July plot.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Jürgen_von_Blumenthal

Also known as Count Hans-Juergen von Blumenthal, Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, Hans-Juergen von Blumenthal.

, Oberkommando des Heeres, Officer (armed forces), Operation Valkyrie, Oster, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, People's Court (Germany), Phoney War, Plötzensee Prison, Potsdam, Prignitz, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940), Prussian Army, Saarbrücken, Schulenburg (surname), Schutzstaffel, Second lieutenant, Siegfried Wagner, Soviet Union, Stefan George, Sturmabteilung, Sturmbannführer, Szczecin, Tomaszew, Masovian Voivodeship, University of Königsberg, Warsaw, Wilhelm Canaris, World War I, World War II, 20 July plot.

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See also

Black Reichswehr personnel

Executed monarchists in the German Resistance

Military personnel from Potsdam

People from Brandenburg executed at Plötzensee Prison

Stahlhelm members

References