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Persönliche Daten Philipp von Böselager Baron 

• Er wurde geboren am 6. September 1917 in Heimerzheim.
• (Christened) .

  Philipp Leopold Michael Hubertus Antonius Maria

• Er ist verstorben am 1. Mai 2008, er war 90 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von Albert Freiherr von Böselager und Maria-Theresia Freiin von Salis-Soglio
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 4. Dezember 2022.

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Laatste deelnemer aanslag op Hitler overleden.

Informatie:
Duitsland .

De enig overgebleven deelnemer aan de mislukte aanslag op Adolf Hitler in juli 1944, baron Philipp von Boeselager, is in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag op 90-jarige leeftijd overleden.
Dat hebben vrienden van de voormalige Wehrmachtofficier vrijdag bekendgemaakt.

Von Boeselager werd bij de samenzwering betrokken via Henning von Tresckow, met graaf Claus Schenk von Schauffenberg de drijvende kracht achter het plan.
Hij leverde de explosieven die Von Stauffenberg liet afgaan in de Wolfsschanze, Hitlers hoofdkwartier bij Rastenburg, nu het Poolse Ketrzyn.
Hitler overleefde de explosie en Von Stauffenberg en andere samenzweerders werden terechtgesteld en hun familie door de Gestapo gearresteerd.
Dat Von Boeselager overleefde had hij te danken aan zijn kameraden, die ondanks martelingen zijn naam verzwegen.

Von Boeselager heeft altijd gezegd dat de Holocaust zijn primaire motief was om Hitler te willen doden.
Hij zei er zijn hele leven spijt van te hebben gehad dat hij hem niet al in 1943 had doodgeschoten.
Toen was hij de beoogde uitvoerder van een andere samenzwering tegen de Führer, die echter op het laatste moment werd afgeblazen.

De afgelopen jaren hield Von Boeselager, die getrouwd was met gravin Maria von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg, regelmatig lezingen over het nationaal-socialisme, vooral op scholen.

Bron : FOK.nl.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3872335.ece

From The Times
May 5, 2008
Philipp von Boeselager
German cavalry officer who supplied explosives for the unsuccessful attempt on Hitler's life in July 1944
Philipp von Boeselager

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When the German cavalry officer Philipp von Boeselager received a brief message from his brother in July 1944, he believed that his life would soon be over. "Everyone back in the old holes" read the message, a code signalling that the plot to murder Hitler, in which both brothers had been involved, had failed.

Von Boeselager, who had supplied the British-made explosives planted in a briefcase by Claus von Stauffenberg in Hitler's East Prussian military headquarters, now turned his cavalry units round from their journey towards Warsaw and a flight on to Berlin, where he had been hoping to lead them in a coup against the Schutzstaffel (SS) and other forces loyal to the Führer. They rode back swiftly towards the Eastern Front to try to escape detection, but von Boeselager expected the Gestapo or the SS, thirsty for revenge, to catch up with him within days as the scale of the revolt and the names of the conspirators were discovered. He believed his troops would try to defend him but knew they could not do so permanently, and kept a dose of cyanide ready to enable him to commit suicide rather than surrender.

However, he and his brother were among the few to escape. Their names were not revealed as other conspirators either committed suicide before capture or said little even when subjected to horrific Gestapo torture. His brother was later killed in military action against Soviet forces. But Philipp survived the war, lived on into his nineties, and has now become the last of the 1944 plotters to die.

In recent decades, as the conspiracy against Hitler became less of a taboo subject in Germany, von Boeselager's memories were much sought after, and he used interviews and appearances in schools to encourage his fellow Germans to show more "civil courage, which we always lack". He reflected too on the failure to remove Hitler, not only in 1944 but in earlier attempts in which he had been involved. In a meeting on the Russian front in 1943 the Führer had stood close to him, but a plan agreed by several officers to open fire was abandoned at the last minute when Himmler, due to accompany Hitler, failed to turn up. The conspirators' leader, Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, feared that the killing of Hitler alone would prompt civil war between the army and the SS. Von Boeselager was haunted by this moment for the rest of his life. "I see Hitler passing in front of me," he recalled, "and I think, if only you'd shot him after all."

Such thoughts and actions would have been hard to imagine for the young man born in 1917 who grew up secure and happy in a large and prosperous aristocratic Catholic family in the Rhineland. He was educated at a Jesuit school, and contemplated a career in the Third Reich's diplomatic service. There was some sympathy in his family for the Nazis, he recalled. Communism had been seen as the greater threat. However, his grandfather dissuaded him by saying: "As a diplomat under the Nazis, you'll have to tell lies. Become a soldier instead." So in 1936 the young von Boeselager, a keen horseman, joined a cavalry regiment in Paderborn.

The next years were spent in intense training and deployment in the early stages of the war, with little thought for wider political issues. He enjoyed rapid promotion, and once his unit was deployed on the Eastern Front he began to see at a more senior level what Hitler's war meant in practice. As well as a growing sense of inevitable defeat under the Führer's capricious military leadership, von Boeselager came to realise exactly what some German forces were doing as they marched east. In July 1942 he noticed a reference in a report to five Romany Gypsies being given "special treatment". When he asked what this euphemism meant he was told of the policy of murdering all the Gypsies and Jews found in particular areas.

Around that time he came under the influence of his commanding officer, Field Marshal Günter von Kluge, who was hostile to Hitler. He also got to know Henning von Tresckow, a leading figure in anti-Nazi circles then serving on the Eastern Front. Later in 1942 von Tresckow asked von Boeselager directly whether he was prepared to kill Hitler. This was not an easy step for an army officer to take. "I had not become an officer to shoot a head of state," von Boeselager said later. As a German patriot he found it hard to accept "that your own state was now being run by murderers and criminals". But he no longer felt bound by his oaths of allegiance as Hitler was breaking his oaths to the German people "ten times a day". As he learnt more about the Holocaust, von Boeselager became convinced that every day Hitler survived condemned to death many thousands more of his victims.

He set about trying to make contact with other like-minded officers —   an extremely hazardous business, given the number of informers active. Direct contact was virtually impossible —   von Boeselager never spoke directly to von Stauffenberg, for example. Resistance, he recalled later, was always a lonely business.

But when the plotters decided to use a bomb to assassinate Hitler, von Boeselager was uniquely favourably positioned to help. His unit had been involved in testing different munitions and had supplies including British explosives and discreet fuses that were ideal for the plot. He delivered a suitcase full to an associate which finally became the bomb left by von Stauffenberg in a briefing room where Hitler was present in July 1944 in his "wolf's lair" military headquarters in East Prussia. The bomb killed several in the room but only injured the Führer, who was then able to authorise ruthless action against the conspirators and their families, save the lucky few, like von Boeselager, whose involvement remained undetected.

After the war von Boeselager studied law and became an expert in forestry. He also helped the Bundeswehr to recruit a new generation of German soldiers. However, the army and the West German state in general made no use of his wartime memories in the early post war decades. With the emphasis very much on reconstruction, few wanted to talk about the painful Nazi past. Gradually, however, newer generations broke the taboo and von Boeselager willingly shared with schools, historians and journalists his memories and belief in the importance of political participation and civil courage. He felt a specific duty towards his fellow plotters against Hitler, most of whom had paid such a terrible price. "I feel they are watching me," he said in an interview.

He recently gave his approval to the making of a film about the 1944 bomb plot starring Tom Cruise as von Stauffenberg, hoping that this would finally bring to attention the bravery of these "good Germans".

He is survived by his wife Rosa and four children.

Philipp von Boeselager, soldier and member of the anti-Hitler resistance, was born on September 6, 1917. He died on May 1, 2008, aged 90

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