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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...
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  • Nina von Stauffenberg (German: Elisabeth Magdalena Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg; 27 August 1913 – 2 April 2006) was the wife of Colonel Claus Schenk...
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    leader Claus von Stauffenberg. Stauffenberg is the oldest of five children of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and a nephew of Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg...
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    Hitler on 20 July 1944, alongside his younger brother, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. After the plot failed, Berthold was tried and executed by...
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  • leader Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), a member of the traditional German nobility, and his wife, Baroness "Nina" von Lerchenfeld...
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  • resistance leader Claus von Stauffenberg. Franz-Ludwig Gustav Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg is the third son of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Nina Schenk...
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    mainly composed of Wehrmacht officers. The leader of the conspiracy, Claus von Stauffenberg, planned to kill Hitler by detonating an explosive hidden in a briefcase...
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  • released by American studio United Artists and stars Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the key plotters. The supporting cast includes Kenneth Branagh...
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    von Stauffenberg family is a Roman Catholic Uradel German noble family from Swabia, Germany. The family's best-known recent member was Colonel Claus Schenk...
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    they could get close enough to kill him. Staff officer Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg volunteered to carry a bomb hidden in a briefcase into one of the...
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    assassinate Adolf Hitler in coordination with Claus von Stauffenberg in November 1943 at the Wolfsschanze. In 1942, von dem Bussche witnessed by chance an SS-organised...
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    satirical action comedy Tropic Thunder and played German army officer Claus von Stauffenberg in the historical thriller Valkyrie (both in 2008). In 2010, Cruise...
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    General Friedrich Olbricht, Major General Henning von Tresckow and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg modified the plan with the intention of using it to...
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    Hitler, which was led by Kortzfleisch's own distant cousin, Claus von Stauffenberg. Von Kortzfleisch was born into an aristocratic Westphalian family...
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  • Stauffenberg is a 2004 German–Austrian TV film by Das Erste (German TV ARD), about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate...
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    His twin brother Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and younger brother Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg were among the leaders of the 20 July Plot...
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  • (Widerstand) against Adolf Hitler. Loringhoven was a friend of Claus von Stauffenberg, who was the leader of the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler in...
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    in the room. This assassination attempt was the work of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an aristocrat who had been severely wounded while serving in the...
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  • Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (née Schiller; 3 January 1903 – 8 April 1945) was an aviator who served as a test pilot in the Luftwaffe before...
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  • Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who plants a bomb in the conference room of the Führer's headquarters in East Prussia. Led by Army Colonel Claus von...
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  • von Stauffenberg may refer to: Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905-1944), German lawyer, conspirator in the 20 July Plot and brother to Claus...
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  • Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise as Claus von Stauffenberg, she was portrayed by Dutch actress Halina Reijn. Meding, Dorothee von (June 1997). Courageous Hearts:...
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    the Brothers Grimm, Rudolf Virchow, Talaat Pasha, and Claus von Stauffenberg. As for Stauffenberg, his corpse was exhumed by the SS on 22 July 1944, the...
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    He was an uncle of Claus von Stauffenberg. In autumn of 1939, Üxküll and Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg contacted Stauffenberg and tried to win him...
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    late 1943, his office was the centre of Resistance plotting, under Claus von Stauffenberg. Had the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler been successful...
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    Abitur, Quirnheim joined the Reichswehr in 1923. His friendship with Claus von Stauffenberg, who would become the key conspirator in the 20 July plot, began...
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    Hitler's life, at the cost of his own, by moving the bomb planted by Claus von Stauffenberg during the 20 July plot. Brandt, the son of later General der Kavallerie...
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  • of July 20, 1944 and moves back to earlier phases in the life of Claus von Stauffenberg, as well as to key earlier events in German history". It was further...
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    nobleman Claus von Stauffenberg, initially favoured the Nazis but later opposed their persecution of the Jews and oppression of the church. Stauffenberg led...
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    resistance against Nazism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg. Hoffmann lived in Canada and in Germany. Hoffmann was born in Dresden...
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