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Jul 20, 2022 · A month later, the sympathetic Fraulein Verch told the children that their mother had given birth to a daughter. She was born the same day, January 27, 1945, that the Red Army occupied both Auschwitz and Hitler’s Wolfschanze headquarters—the scene of Stauffenberg’s abortive bombing.
Apr 9, 2024 · Claus von Stauffenberg, German army officer who, as the chief conspirator of the July Plot, carried out an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Although Stauffenberg succeeded in placing a bomb in Hitler’s headquarters at Rastenburg (July 20, 1944), the explosion failed to kill Hitler.
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Stauffenberg was born in Stauffenberg Castle, Jettingen on 15 November 1907 and baptised as Claus Philipp Maria Justinian. He was the third of four sons of Count Alfred Schenk von Stauffenberg (1860–1936), the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Württemberg and his wife, Countess Caroline von Üxküll-Gyllenband (1875–1956), the daughter of Count Alfred Richard August von Üxküll ...
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Jul 19, 2014 · Children give things away." As he recovered from his injuries, Stauffenberg was approached by a group of conspirators led by Gen Henning von Tresckow, who wanted to kill Hitler and overthrow...
Jan 31, 2019 · The sufferings of the Stauffenberg family did not end with Claus’s death. The colonel’s pregnant wife, Nina, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. His children were seized and sent to a children’s home. The family was later reunited and Claus’s wife never did remarry.
Under the leadership of Stauffenberg, plotters tried to assassinate Hitler at least five different times in 1943 and 1944. With the Gestapo closing in on the plotters, a final attempt was organized in July 1944. Stauffenberg personally took a briefcase full of explosives to a conference in the Wolf's Lair.
Jul 20, 2014 · After the failed assassination attempt, the Nazi regime took vengeance on the "traitors" and their families. Gestapo secret police arrested Stauffenberg's wife Nina and took away their...
