Claus Philipp Maria
Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg[1] (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German
army officer of rank colonel 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. He actually hid a powerful bomb timed in a brief case and kept it under
the conference table in Hitlers bunker called Wolfs liar. Unfortunately a staff
officer with his leg moved the brief case away and it went behind the leg of the
table. Thus when the bomb went up, four
were killed and Hitler was injured but escaped. Before being shot by firing squad after the lpot failed, he shouted
long live Germany. 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 a makeshift firing
squad shortly after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie. After WW II,
memorials were erected to him and others who took part in the plot and fought to
remove Nazi regime.
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