![]() In Tunisia the year before the assassination attempt, Stauffenberg's jeep had been strafed by an American plane, leaving him with one eye and one hand - with just three fingers left on it. When I meet his steady gaze, I think I understand how Claus persuaded so many co-conspirators to join his crusade and risk their lives.Įven so, Stauffenberg was an unlikely assassin. He has the natural authority and discipline of a military man and bears the burden of being his famous father's son with dignity and grace. Looming opposite me in a high-backed chair, Berthold, over 6ft and himself a retired major-general, seems to possess many of the same qualities. An extraordinarily brave soldier and a charismatic leader, his attempt to kill Hitler on 20 July at the Nazi leader's eastern HQ - known as the 'Wolf's Lair' - will receive the Hollywood treatment in a new film, Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise and Kenneth Branagh, being released next year. 'He did what he did, and sacrificed his life, through sheer moral duty.'Ĭlaus von Stauffenberg was a 'good German' amid a nation of demonised villains. 'It was the closest anyone came to killing him,' says Berthold, now 74 and a fierce guardian of his father's legacy. A colonel and a trusted member of the Führer's inner circle, he was, at that precise moment, trying to kill Hitler with a briefcase full of explosives. But, 800 miles away, his father, Claus, had other plans. An earnest young man, and the heir to one of Germany's most noble families, Berthold von Stauffenberg was in awe of the Nazi regime and talked excitedly about joining the Hitler Youth. Just before 1pm on a boiling hot day in 1944, a 10-year-old boy sat down to lunch at a grand country house in the hills near Stuttgart. With the daring plot now being made into a film - starring Tom Cruise - Berthold von Stauffenberg, son of the would-be assassin, tells Nigel Jones how his father's 'moral sacrifice' shattered his and his family's lives ![]() It exploded, just missing its target, and the following day the officer was shot. Pre-signal keeping an intersection clear.On 20 July 1944, a German colonel left a bomb in the Führer's office. The bottom train will be able to pass through the intersection with the help of the pre-signal on the right track.Ī train will pass a pre-signal if every block in the train's desired path up to and including the next regular signal is free. This is usually used for keeping intersections free and distributing trains among platforms. The pre-signal will be green if all possible paths are free, yellow if there is at least one blocked and at least one open, and red if all paths are blocked. If a train does not need to pass completely through a sequence of pre-signals (i.e. when it wants to go to a station in the middle), but there is no eventual exit after the train's path, the train will not go through. Trains can pass an initial pre-signal, only to be blocked at another pre-signal by another train. This way, the pre-signal grouping cannot be blocked forever as long as there is enough space after the exiting regular signals to fit each train.Ĭomparison with other games Factorio If this train needed to pass a pre-signal to enter the offending block, then it must be able to leave the block, thus freeing the original train. The chain and block signals in Voxel Tycoon are almost exactly the same as the chain and rail signals in Factorio. In particular, the way two-way tracks are designated is exactly the same. In Factorio, trains reserve blocks ahead of them so that if their momentum carries them into another block, that block is guaranteed to be free. In Voxel Tycoon, momentum takes second priority trains will stop immediately if the block they were approaching gets taken. In addition, trains in Factorio also reserve all chain blocks they plan to traverse through in a sequence of chain blocks, up to and including the next normal block. Voxel Tycoon trains, on the other hand, can and will enter blocks that other trains may have already looked at when deciding whether to pass a chain signal. ![]() This creates a sort of dependency tree, where first entered trains may have to wait for later trains to exit the intersection before continuing. ![]() ![]() However, since trains will stop at the next signal if any part of their path becomes occupied, and new trains will only enter when their path is completely free, this behavior does not cause gridlock.įactorio trains will conclude their pathfinding at a station, and will pass chain signals with no real exit if the station is within the chain sequence. In fact, adding a station inside a chain sequence will turn the chain signals from red to blue. ![]()
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