Claus von Stauffenberg
German aristocrat, army officer and resistance fighter (1907-1944)
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He walked a briefcase bomb into Hitler's bunker and walked out. The blast failed, the plot collapsed, and by the next sunrise Stauffenberg was dead in a courtyard — shot for the one assassination attempt that came closest.
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Born into Bavarian nobility on 15 November 1907, Stauffenberg served through Poland, the Soviet invasion in Operation Barbarossa, and Tunisia, where he lost his left eye, right hand, and two fingers. The wounds didn't end his career — they sharpened his resolve. Alongside Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he became central to the Wehrmacht's resistance circle and the architect of Operation Valkyrie, a scheme to kill Hitler and arrest the Nazi leadership in one stroke. On 20 July 1944, he placed the bomb himself at the Wolf's Lair; it detonated but left Hitler only lightly injured. The consp…
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