Saturday, June 10, 2017

Pencil sketch of an anti Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

BERTHOLD SCHNEK GRAF VON STAAUFFENBURG

He was the elder brother of. Colonel Carl Bon stauffenburg of Wehrmacht I.e Gevrman army in WW II and was a lawyer.He was associated with 20 July plot and he was arrested after the failure of the plot. He was tried by people's court and was sentenced to death.He was strangulated and hanged, resuscitated several times in the prison before he was killed by hanging. his younger brother was earlier executed by a firing squad after a summary court martial by General Fromm the commander of reserve forces. Carl. Was the key conspirator who placed brief case bomb under conference table of Hitler in wolfs lair. Hitler escaped the blast with injuries although. Some were killed.

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