Popular Culture
The failed plot has been represented in historical dramatic films. Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Jackboot Mutiny (Austria, 1955), Anatole Litvak's The Night of the Generals (Britain, 1967), Lawrence Schiller's The Plot to Kill Hitler (U.S., 1990), the German television production Stauffenberg and Bryan Singer's full length movie Valkyrie (U.S., 2008) have addressed the plot. In the Soviet Union, it was depicted in the third part of the film series Liberation. It was also depicted in an episode of Highlander: The Series, titled "The Valkyrie".
A spoof on Operation Valkyrie under optimum conditions (with the setting relocated to Italy) is depicted in the Jerry Lewis war comedy Which Way to the Front?.
Operation Valkyrie is mentioned in the video game Medal of Honor: Frontline and in the comicbook I Am Legion.
Operation Valkyrie is the name of a Mythbusters episode that examined the effect of an explosive in enclosed and open-space rooms in an attempt to determine if the last minute change of meeting venue permitted Hitler to survive. In all circumstances there was the potential for survival.
The event is referenced in the UK television sitcom Red Dwarf. The character Lister inadvertently foils the plot by stealing von Stauffenberg's briefcase in the episode Timeslides.
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