Instead, he was a conservative nationalist, forged in the crucible of traditional military values, Swabian aristocratic heritage, and devout Catholicism. Where the Nazi barbarian saw law as an immediate extension of the Leader’s will—arbitrary, terroristic, unbound by precedent or ethics—the conservative saw law as the embodiment of organic order, personal honor, and moral responsibility. Thus, Stauffenberg’s moral awakening accelerated with the regime’s escalating state terror, the perversion of the military ethos into blind obedience to atrocity, and the desecration of Christian foundations. Comparing Stauffenberg’s moral activism to the purely intellectual resistance to barbarism provided by Edgar Julius Jung—the intellectual spearhead of the Conservative Revolution—gives food for thought. Stauffenberg’s bomb was a flash of conservative lightning in gathering darkness—a passionate, if quixotic, assertion that true order demands ethical limits, even unto death.