biography
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Stauffenberg, Claus, Graf von (Count of)
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pronunciation:
[shtowfnberg]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–44)
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| biography:
| German soldier, born in Jettingen, SC Germany. Initially welcoming the advent to power of Hitler, he quickly became alienated by Nazi brutality. He was a colonel on the German general staff in 1944, and placed the bomb in the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler at Rastenburg (20 Jul 1944). He was shot next day. |
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