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Stauffenberg came within a hair’s breadth of accomplishing his goal when the bomb exploded at approximately 12:40 p.m., demolishing the room and killing three officers and a secretary. But Hitler was merely wounded—and it was the Stauffenberg family instead that was torn apart in the aftermath of the attempted coup.

Claus von Stauffenberg was born in Jettingen, Germany on November 15, 1907. In his youth, he belonged to Stefan George's circle and remained a disciple of the great poet for the rest of his life. He would quote George's The Anti-Christ when recruiting friends and trusted colleagues into the conspiracy. A bright student, at nineteen he became an ...

1. Almost all of the conspirators had a conservative, nationalist perspective and an aristocratic background. 2. The primary military conspirators were General Friedrich Olbricht, Major General Henning von Tresckow, and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, along with Claus-Heinrich Stülpnagel, the military commander in France.

Colonel von Stauffenberg worked in the German Army headquarters in Berlin. He was one of the main conspirators in an attempt to kill Hitler and take control of the government in order to end World War II. Von Stauffenberg planted a bomb in a conference room at Hitler's headquarters on July 20, 1944.

The most remarkable tool to make this military coup d'état succeed was an attempt to assassinate the German dictator Adolf Hitler - personally executed by the leader of the conspiracy, colonel Claus von Stauffenberg - by detonating an explosive, hidden in a briefcase. However, it only slightly injured him.