Plot That Failed
HE British talent for documentary is pethaps allied to the national preference for understatement, the willingness to let the facts speak for themselves without bothering to wring every available drop of emotional stimulus from ‘them. What makes The Plot Against Hitler (heard from 2ZB on a recent Sunday), such an impressive documentary is that there are so many facts, almost all of them new ones or at any rate recently discovered ones. Trevor Roper has taken these facts and arranged them skilfully to form a pattern of inevitability. He does not fall into the tempting error of ascribing\the failure of the plot to bad luck and bad strategy on the part of the conspirators at the actual time of the bomb placing, but agrees with a fel-low-countryman’s summing-up of von Stauffenberg as a revolutionary withcut the support of the people. My chief
regret was that the names were too unfamiliar for me to register accurately. I felt a certain nostalgia (which will vanish with television) for the days when history lessons presupposed a blackboard in the background.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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180Plot That Failed New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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