These are the real German wartime heroes:
Dietrich Bonhoffer
Ludwig Beck
Claus von Stauffenberg
Henning von Tresckow
Sophie Scholl
In case you are not aware of the Scholl's role in active resistance, they formed the White Rose group. Eventually, they were beheaded for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. She had this to say in court:
"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."And there were many more than faces shown above. You see, some went along with it all, survived and wrote successful books after the war. Others lost their lives in active resistance.
The Wehrmacht had a tradition, and for the most upheld that tradition through out WW2, that officers were not to be active members of political parties.
A distortion of the truth. Any national army is a political entity, until it gives up that quality. You should perhaps pay attention to the spirit of that tradition rather than the so-called 'prohibitions' to party membership that you mention. The German High Command sold out any kind of autonomy - they betrayed the German people as much as the Nazis did. They could have stopped Hitler in '38, '39 etc etc.
