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Claus von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊ̯s ˈfɔn ˈʃtaʊ̯fn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair.
Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (born November 15, 1907, Jettingen, Germany—died July 21, 1944, Berlin) was a German army officer who, as the chief conspirator of the July Plot, carried out an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
On 20 July 1944, a 36-year-old German army officer, Col Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, arrived at a heavily guarded complex hidden in a forest in East Prussia. His mission was to kill...
Claus von Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt on Hitler was the basis for the movie Valkyrie. Read a review of the film and an interview with its screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie.
In August 1943, Tresckow met, for the first time, a young staff officer named Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. Severely wounded in North Africa, Claus von Stauffenberg was a political conservative and zealous German nationalist.
Seventy years ago this July 20, a dashing colonel, Claus von Stauffenberg, blind in one eye and missing fingers on one hand, placed a bomb under a conference table in East Prussia.
Claus von Stauffenberg: the true story behind the film Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise On 20 July 1944, a German colonel left a bomb in the Führer's office. It exploded, just missing its target...
NARRATOR: July 20, 1944 - assassination attempt on Hitler. He planted the bomb - Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Germany is in the fifth year of war. Doubt is growing in the heavily bombed cities. The defeat at Stalingrad has weakened belief in Hitler's propaganda of victory.
On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 Claus von Stauffenberg and his regiment took part in the attack on Poland. He became concerned about the way the Poles were treated and began associating with Peter von Wartenburg who urged him to join the resistance against Hitler.
General Olricht, Colonel von Stauffenberg, and two other conspirators were captured at the Bendlerblock, site of many offices of the Supreme High Command of the German Army, tried by an impromptu court martial, and executed by firing squad in the courtyard.