Berthold von Stauffenberg was in awe of the Nazi regime and talked excitedly about joining the Hitler Youth. But, 800 miles away, his father, Claus, had other plans. A colonel and a trusted member ...

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 ...

She was 92. Peter Kirchner, mayor of Kirchlauter in the southern state of Bavaria, where Mrs. von Stauffenberg lived, said the widow of Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg died in the morning ...

Those words were uttered by Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in July 1944, shortly before he embarked on the most audacious plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Eighty years ago ...

Claus Graf von Stauffenberg, who tried to kill Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944, is everywhere these days. But does he really deserve all the attention? Considering he's been ...

Or so it initially seemed. For a brief moment in history, Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators thought they had succeeded in turning the tide of World War II and potentially saving ...

The critics seem to have been almost unanimously unimpressed with Valkyrie, which stars Tom Cruise as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the key figure in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler on ...

Claus von Stauffenberg came up with an alternate plan. The AP explains: "Von Kleist was supposed to play a key role as the person who was to carry a briefcase packed with explosives to a meeting ...

Alexander and his twin Berthold were the older brothers of Colonel Claus Count von Stauffenberg, who on July 20, 1944, planted a bomb meant to kill Hitler in the well-known but failed Valkyrie ...