| rdfs:comment | - Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the movement he was shot shortly after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie.
- Claus von Stauffenberg (s. 15. marraskuuta 1907 - k. 21. heinäkuuta 1944). Toteutti 20. heinäkuuta 1944 (Operaatio Valkyria), Sudenpesässä epäonnistuneen pommiattentaatin Adolf Hitleriä vastaan.
- Stauffenberg was born in 1907. In his youth, he and his brothers were members of the Neupfadfinder, a German Scout association. Following the outbreak of war in 1939, Stauffenberg and his regiment took part in the attack on Poland. Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was launched in 1941. The mass executions of Russians, Ukrainians, Jews and others, as well as what he believed was an already apparent deficiency in military leadership finally convinced Stauffenberg in 1942 to join with resistance groups within the Wehrmacht, the only force that had a chance to overcome Hitler's Gestapo, SD, and SS.
- Stauffenberg was born the third of three sons (the others being Berthold, and Alexander) in Jettingen in Swabia near Ulm, in the state of Württemberg to one of the oldest and most distinguished aristocratic South German Catholic families. His parents were the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Caroline née von Üxküll-Gyllenbrand. Among his ancestors were several famous Prussians, including most notably August von Gneisenau. His name points to the imperial Stauffen Berg mountain and castle. Stauffenberg was very well educated and was inclined to literature but eventually took up a military career. In 1926, he joined the family regiment in BambergBamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the Regnitz Ri
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| abstract | - Stauffenberg was born in 1907. In his youth, he and his brothers were members of the Neupfadfinder, a German Scout association. Following the outbreak of war in 1939, Stauffenberg and his regiment took part in the attack on Poland. Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was launched in 1941. The mass executions of Russians, Ukrainians, Jews and others, as well as what he believed was an already apparent deficiency in military leadership finally convinced Stauffenberg in 1942 to join with resistance groups within the Wehrmacht, the only force that had a chance to overcome Hitler's Gestapo, SD, and SS. After his arrest in July 1944, Stauffenberg’s older brother Berthold told the Gestapo that: “He and his brother had basically approved of the racial principle of National Socialism, but considered it to be exaggerated and excessive”. In November 1942, the Allies landed in French North Africa, and the 10th Panzer Division occupied Vichy France (Case Anton) before being transferred to the Tunisian Campaign, as part of the Afrika Korps. While he was driving from unit to unit, directing them, his vehicle was strafed on 7 April 1943 by British fighter-bombers and he was severely wounded. He spent three months in a hospital in Munich, where he was treated by Ferdinand Sauerbruch. Stauffenberg lost his left eye, his right hand, and two fingers on his left hand. He jokingly remarked to friends never to have really known what to do with so many fingers when he still had all of them. For his injuries, Stauffenberg was awarded the Wound Badge in Gold on 14 April and for his courage the German Cross in Gold on 8 May. Although Stauffenberg agreed with some of the Nazi Party's nationalistic aspects, he found many aspects of its ideology repugnant and never became a member of the party.
- Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the movement he was shot shortly after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie.
- Stauffenberg was born the third of three sons (the others being Berthold, and Alexander) in Jettingen in Swabia near Ulm, in the state of Württemberg to one of the oldest and most distinguished aristocratic South German Catholic families. His parents were the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Caroline née von Üxküll-Gyllenbrand. Among his ancestors were several famous Prussians, including most notably August von Gneisenau. His name points to the imperial Stauffen Berg mountain and castle. Stauffenberg was very well educated and was inclined to literature but eventually took up a military career. In 1926, he joined the family regiment in BambergBamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the Regnitz River, close to its confluence with the Main River. Population: 69,200 (2001). History The town was first mentioned in 902. Henry II of Germany made Bamberg the seat of, the Reiter- und Kavallerieregiment 17 (17th Cavalry Regiment). In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power and while some aspects of the party were repugnant to him, Stauffenberg, a conservative German patriot; Patriotism is a feeling of love and devotion to one's own homeland patria the land of one's fathers). This article surveys the concept of patriotism from the viewpoints of history, politics, ethics, and biology. Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 1814 Patriotic, was not initially in complete opposition to their ideas, especially in the area of nationalism. However after KristallnachtKristallnacht also known as Reichskristallnacht Pogromnacht and in English as The Night of Broken Glass was a massive nation-wide pogrom in Germany on the night of November 9, 1938 (including early hours of the following day). It was directed at Jewish ci in November 1938 he felt that great shame had been brought upon Germany and it had deeply offended his sense of morality and justice. The treatment of the Jews and the suppression of religion in Germany made the Catholic Stauffenberg more and more an opponent of the Nazis. In the military, he had worked his way through the grades and he was promoted to Hauptmann (captain) on 1 January, 1937Events January January 1 Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua January 11 The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States. January 19 Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours,, a rank he would hold for the next six years. His regiment became part of the Sixth Panzer Division and was involved in the occupation of the SudetenlandSudetenland was the name used before 1918 and in 1938 45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans ( German: Sudetendeutsche in the various places of Bohemia. The region was only partly confined to the mountains of Sudeten). In 1918 38 and after and, once war broke out, in the Polish, French and Russian campaigns. Towards the end of the French campaign ( 31 May, 1940), he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class. On 1 January, 1943, he was promoted to Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) and was soon transferred to the North African campaign. There, while he was scouting out a new command area, his vehicle was strafed by marauding Allied fighter-bombers and he was severely wounded. He spent three months in hospital and ended up losing his left eye, his right hand and the fourth and fifth fingers of his left hand, although he later joked that he hardly knew what he had done with all ten fingers when he had them. While his uncle, Graf Nikolaus von Üxküll, approached him to join the resistance movement after the Polish campaign in 1939, it was Stauffenberg's individual conscience and his religious convictions that urged him to act. Initially, he felt powerless as he was in no position of authority to help organise a coup, but finally in 1943 after recuperating from his wounds he was posted as a staff officer to the Replacement Army located in an office on the Bendlerstrasse in Berlin. Here, one of his superiors was General Friedrich Olbricht , a committed member of the resistance movement. In the Replacement Army they had a unique opportunity to launch a coup as one of its functions was to have "Operation Valkyrie" in place—a contingency measure to which would let the Replacement Army assume control of the Reich in the event of internal disturbances where communications with the military high command were blocked. Ironically, this plan had been agreed to by Hitler and was now secretly to become the means of sweeping him from power.
- Claus von Stauffenberg (s. 15. marraskuuta 1907 - k. 21. heinäkuuta 1944). Toteutti 20. heinäkuuta 1944 (Operaatio Valkyria), Sudenpesässä epäonnistuneen pommiattentaatin Adolf Hitleriä vastaan.
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