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Xizorfalleen t1_iy7zdi5 wrote

Reply to comment by Rethious in TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly by alcapwnage0007

> Those with integrity died in July ‘44.

If they had integrity they wouldn't have fought the war in the first place. Stauffenberg and his buddies were perfectly fine with conquering Lebensraum in the east and enslaving the people living there or starving them to death. They only turned against Hitler when the war was irrecoverably lost.

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Rethious t1_iy8y9v2 wrote

I wasn’t going to get into that, but there were a variety of people involved in the conspiracy. Some were just dissatisfied with Hitler’s leadership, others felt it was a moral issue.

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