Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg Biography

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NAME: Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
OCCUPATION: Assassin, Military Leader
BIRTH DATE: November 15, 1907
DEATH DATE: c. July 20, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH: Jettingen, Germany
PLACE OF DEATH: Berlin, Germany
AKA: Claus von Stauffenberg
Originally: Claus Philipp Maria Justinian von Stauffenberg

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Claus von Stauffenberg was a German army officer who, as the chief conspirator of the July Plot, carried out an failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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Claus von Stauffenberg, entered the German army in 1926 and won distinction as a staff officer in the campaigns in Poland and northern France. 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. Stauffenberg decided that Hitler must be eliminated, however his assassination attempt failed.