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Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus von Stauffenberg carried out an unsuccessful attack on Hitler.

Person

  • Claus Philipp Maria Schenk, Graf von Stauffenberg
  • Born on: Nov. 15, 1907
  • Born in: Jettingen, Duitsland
  • Died on: July 21, 1944
  • Died in: Berlijn, Duitsland

Stauffenberg (1907-1944)  joined the Reichswehr in 1926 and became a lieutenant in 1930. In 1939 he took part in the campaign against Poland.

On 20 July 1944, Stauffenberg carried out an attack on Hitler. This should have been accompanied by a coup d'état. The plan failed and Stauffenberg was killed the next day. About two hundred others were accused of complicity and executed, with or without justification.[1] Anne Frank wrote about this in her diary.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg.
  2. ^ Anne refers to Von Stauffenberg as the head of the conspiracy. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 21 July 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.