Claus stauffenberg biography
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German Resistance Memorial Center Biographie
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Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
November 15, - July 20,
Raised a Catholic, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg displayed a sense of responsibility based on social and ethical principles from an early age. He and his brother Berthold, who was also part of the inner circle of conspirators, discussed fundamental political principles. The poet Stefan George was very influential in the Stauffenberg brothers’ intellectual and moral development.
It was only during the war that Stauffenberg recognized the criminal nature of National Socialist policy. Gradually and more slowly than his fellow conspirators, he extricated himself from the fascination that Hitler’s military successes in particular exerted over him. After a severe injury, he was appointed chief of s
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The German officer who tried to kill Hitler
Stauffenberg was an aristocratic, Catholic, career army officer. "Everyone says my father was extremely good looking - dark hair, blue eyes, slightly wavy hair, tall. He was a very cheerful man, he used to laugh a lot and we thought he was absolutely wonderful," says his son, Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who's now 80 years old.
In , Stauffenberg was badly injured while serving in Tunisia - he'd lost an eye, his right hand, and two fingers from his left hand.
"You know wounds were so commonplace at the time and having lost an arm, having lost an eye, was quite normal. It was really a relief that he was alive," says Berthold.
Though not overtly political, Stauffenberg was a conservative and a nationalist. At times, he had supported Nazi policies, but as the war progressed, his opposition to the regime grew - he was horrified by German atrocities in the east and the realisation that Germany was lo
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The most famous assassination attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler took place on July 20th at the Wolfsschanze or Wolf’s Lair headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was codenamed Operation Valkyrie and was led by the German aristocrat and army officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in conjunction with General Friedrich Olbricht and General Ludwig Beck of the German general staff. The plot was the culmination of a more widespread anti-Nazi German resistance movement to overthrow Hitler and the Third Reich. This feature will commemorate the 70th anniversary of Operation Valkyrie and explore how the story of Stauffenberg and the July assassination plot fryst vatten represented in the UL’s German collections.
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (source)
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was born in into the German aristocracy and began his military career in the s before Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Although he was never a member of the Nazi party, he did support H