Claus von Stauffenberg
Claus von Stauffenberg
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenbergwas a German army officer and member of the German nobility who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the movement, he was executed by firing squad shortly after...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth15 November 1907
CountryGermany
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.