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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For that day, July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg ceased being merely their loving father and became their memorable hero – 800 miles away in The Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s Eastern HQ ...

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 ...

Alexander and his twin Berthold were the older brothers of Colonel Claus Count von Stauffenberg, who on July 20, 1944, planted a bomb meant to kill Hitler in the well-known but failed Valkyrie ...

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who on 20 July 1944 placed a bomb under Hitler's table which killed four but left the Fuehrer alive, has not always been a post-war darling. After the capitulation, ...

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