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 ...

Claus von Stauffenberg took a briefcase of explosives into a meeting with Hitler. Then everything went wrong. By Sarah Percy, Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Edwina Stott for An Object in Time.

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 ...

It's been 75 years since Adolph Hitler was nearly killed by his aide, Claus von Stauffenberg, using a suitcase bomb in an attempt to end World War II.

On 20 July 1944, a German colonel left a bomb in the Führer's office. It exploded, just missing its target, and the following day the officer was shot. With the daring plot now being made into a ...

Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944. By Peter Hoffmann (1992). 1. This biography of Col. Claus von Stauffenberg asserts that the programmatic extermination of the Jews stood paramount in his ...

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last known surviving member of the German resistance group that tried unsuccessfully to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II, has died. He was 90. He died ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has paid tribute to the group of army officers who hatched the plot, including Claus von Stauffenberg, who placed the bomb inside the Fuhrer's bunker in July 1944.

During his convalescence, he was approached in January 1944 by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, another officer from an aristocratic family, and presented with a plan to kill Hitler.