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Claus von Stauffenberg: German Patriot and Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin
Today, November 15, is the one-hundred and fourth birthday of Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a Catholic aristocrat and officer of the German Wehrmacht who led the anti-Nazi resistance within the German war machine. On the 21st of July, 1944, this man, along with two other German army officers, Henning von Treskow and…