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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.
Jul 19, 2014 · 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...
Jul 20, 2022 · Berthold’s father, Claus Schenk, Count von Stauffenberg—a religious man with a philosophic bent, an accomplished horseman, and a lover of poetry—was about to become infamous for those anti-Nazi views.
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. [3]
Jan 31, 2019 · Claus von Stauffenberg used his access to Hitler as a German army officer to plot the failed 1944 assassination attempt, Operation Valkyrie. It's alleged that as he was executed by firing squad, von Stauffenberg shouted "long live free Germany."
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (* 15. November 1907 auf Schloss Jettingen, Jettingen, Königreich Bayern; † 20. Juli 1944 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Berufsoffizier der Wehrmacht und Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
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STAUFFENBERG, CLAUS VON (1907–1944) German soldier and conspirator in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The leading figure in the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, Stauffenberg was then a thirty-six-year-old career officer who had risen to the rank of colonel.
Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg [1] (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat in the Wehrmacht. Stauffenberg was a leader of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 during World War 2 that aimed to kill the German Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler , and to remove the Nazi Party ...
Jul 20, 1998 · July Plot: A failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler Learn about the July Plot of 1944, in which Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, and others tried to assassinate Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime.
