Chapter Fifteen - Chaos

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Chapter Fifteen
Chaos
20 July 1944
Berlin, Vienna

In this chapter, Claus and the Geheimes Deutschland enact Operation Valkyrie, and Claus sets off a pencil-timed bomb at Wolf's Headquarters on the Eastern Front. In Vienna, the girls are in lockdown at the Metropole, while Rudi and Oskar are likewise at the Maria Theresa Barracks, slated to be sent to the 6th Army Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. We meet members of the Wehrmacht who are in fact part of the Geheimes Deutschland, and Hilda mulls over her parents' experience while waiting to be processed. Dr. Ebner reveals his hand to Rudi. Meanwhile, Wolf is injured and very badly shaken and begins a downward spiral, trusting no one, Claus and four others are assasinated at the Bendlerblock in Berlin, and Dietrich is found to have connections with the Geheimes Deutschland.

 
Berthold von Stauffenberg and his house in Berlin:

 
The Wolf's Lair before and after the bomb:







 
 
The Italians Arrive:
 

Hetzendorf Palace Barracks,Vienna:


 The Conspirators:

The Hut:


Hilda's Ancestors: 

Composer Wilhelm Kienzl 


 Karl Windischmann, German Theologian

Nina Kienzl, her great grandmother
Triangle Classification System in Nazi Germany:

Colonel Heinrich Kodré: 

Captain Carl Szokoll:

Christlessee, Rudi's childhood home:

The Knight of Bamberg. Claus' ancestor whom he was said to strongly resemble. 12th Century:

Newspaper Item, 21 July 1944:

Beethoven: String Quartet no. 8 in E minor, op. 59 no. 2 - The 'Fire in the Night', a reference to the resistance aiding Allied bombers
The Communist Party of Austria - Before and after World War II, its contribution to the resitance against the Nazis
Hitler's Six-Minute Broadcast - from the Guardian (UK)
The Open Secrets of Stefan George - Link to a book about the homosexuality of Claus's mentor Stefan George. The von Stauffenbergs' parents were very concerned about this and their mother visited George to ascertain that nothing hinky was going on. 
Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg - a biographical page about the man who made the strange radio broadcast in the middle of the night, calling on the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS to desert and resist. 
 

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