On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg led a failed bid to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In the postwar years, the coup attempt was used to claim that Germans had never accepted Nazism ...

Berthold von Stauffenberg was in awe of the Nazi regime and talked excitedly about joining the Hitler Youth. But, 800 miles away, his father, Claus, had other plans. A colonel and a trusted member ...

But when Tresckow was deployed to the Eastern Front to fight the Soviets, the plotters turned to another man: Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. "Stauffenberg [wa]sn't afraid of danger," Erika ...

On 20 July 1944, a 36-year-old German army officer, Col Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, arrived at a heavily guarded complex hidden in a forest in East Prussia. His mission was to kill Adolf ...

Those words were uttered by Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in July 1944, shortly before he embarked on the most audacious plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Eighty years ago ...

He had no clue that Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of his most trusted aides, had brought along a suitcase containing a bomb that he hoped would blow the Nazi dictator and his acolytes to ...

She was 92. Peter Kirchner, mayor of Kirchlauter in the southern state of Bavaria, where Mrs. von Stauffenberg lived, said the widow of Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg died in the morning ...

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