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Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg Claus, Graf (count) Schenk von Stauffenberg.

Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg

German military officer
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Born:
November 15, 1907, Jettingen, Germany
Died:
July 21, 1944, Berlin (aged 36)

Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (born November 15, 1907, Jettingen, Germany—died July 21, 1944, Berlin) was a German army officer who, as the chief conspirator of the July Plot, carried out an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, entered the German army in 1926 and won distinction as a staff officer with a panzer (armoured) division in the campaigns in Poland and northern France (1939–40). After he was transferred to the front in the Soviet Union, however, he became disillusioned with the German occupation’s brutal policies toward Slavs and Jews. At his own request, he ...(100 of 275 words)

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