In Norse mythology, the Valkyrie is the angelic being that transports warriors to Valhalla.
On Christmas day, I went with my brother-in-law to see the new film starring Tom Cruise, Valkyrie. The movie is about a plot, the central figure being Col. Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, to assassinate Hitler and put in place a new government in hopes of negotiating a peace during the Second World War.
The plot, as history tells us, failed. I didn't realize, until seeing the film, how close the plot came to succeeding and some of the intricacies that were put in place in order to bring about a succession of government.
According to information provided at the end of the movie, at least 15 attempts were made on Hitler's life by Germans, many of them German military members and loyal supported of Germany.
After the attempt detailed by Valkyrie, Hitler is on the radio assuring the people that Providence, the hand of God, saved him from an attempt on his life.
Knowing the details of Hitler's meteoric rise to power, his survival of several attempts on his life and the attempt shown in this movie, it does seem that God's hand was indeed watching over Adolph Hitler.
To me, this seems kind of bothersome.
God watching over evil men to keep them in power.
Allowing the atrocities of the holocaust to continue and the death and torture of millions of innocents because of the madness of the German leaders philosophy.
I have come to realize that God still does not consult me on his making of plans and doesn't always make clear to me his reasoning or the the results of what he does, allows for and doesn't do.
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Maybe the question should not be why God allowed Hitler to stay there, but why He kept a Hitler from rising to power in the U.S. during the same time. After watching the Ben Stein movie I'm embarassed to say I felt like the nosey neighbor that says, "I would never do that!" We had the potential at that time (and still do, frankly) to become a Nazi Germany.
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