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This 5 page paper profiles Claus Von Stauffenberg and details his plot to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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explains the plot in detail. Discussion Claus Philip Schenk Von Stauffenberg was born in 1907, the "youngest of three sons of the oldest and most distinguished South German families" (Swanson).
He was handsome, intelligent and excelled in both sports and academics; he was such an expert equestrian that he won a place on the German Olympic team (Swanson). He considered
a career in music and was interested in architecture, but joined the army in 1926, when he was 19 (Swanson). Von Stauffenberg apparently remained apolitical as Hitler and the Nazis
climbed to power, but he began to have doubts about the regime in 1938, as the campaigns to exterminate the Jews went into full operation (Swanson). Despite his doubts
about Nazism, he performed his military duties with "energy and talent, earning a solid reputation as an officer in the Sixth Panzer Divisions campaigns in both Poland and France" (Swanson).
In 1940, he was "transferred to the army high command" and spent 18 months in Russia with Operation Barbarossa, where he "witnessed firsthand the brutality of the SS. His
Russian service disillusioned him with the Third Reich" (Swanson). Thoroughly disgusted by the debacle at Stalingrad, he request a transfer and joined the Tenth Panzer Division, stationed in Tunisia, just
in time to fight in the battle of the Kasserine Pass, a major battle in North Africa (Swanson). In April, 1943, Von Stauffenberg "drove his car into a mine field"
and suffered serious injuries: he "lost his left eye" and his right hand, and "suffered injuries to his left ear and knee" (Swanson). It took him months to recover from
his injuries and as he convalesced, he began to contact the others who would help him in his plot to kill Hitler. Von Stauffenberg told his wife that "he felt
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