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Claus von Stauffenberg
Claus von Stauffenberg, an unlikely hero. After losing his right hand, left eye, and two fingers of his left hand to a strafing run in Tunisia, 1943, Lieutenant-Colonel Stauffenberg was sent back to Germany, and from there became a leading conspirator in the clandestine resistance against Nazi rule within the Wehrmacht, orchestrating the unsuccessful 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler: “Operation Valkyrie”. Stauffenberg attended a meeting with Hitler and others on July 20, 1944, carrying a briefcase containing two bombs. However, several complications arose; The meeting was originally supposed to take place in the Führerbunker, but was moved to the Wolfsschanze. Stauffenberg, possessing only 3 fingers, had great difficulty arming the bombs and only armed one before being interrupted by a guard. After placing the briefcase in the room with Hitler, Stauffenberg left, and the briefcase was unwittingly moved farther away by a colonel in attendance. The bomb went off, killing several officers, but Hitler was shielded by a solid oak table leg and was barely scathed. Stauffenberg fled, convinced nobody could have survived the explosion. He was executed for treason the next day. *almost all photos of him post-injury show him wearing a glass eye. Tom Cruise portrays him in “Valkyrie”(2008) with the eyepatch he often wore when not in the presence of senior officers.*
Claus von Stauffenberg
Claus von Stauffenberg, an unlikely hero. After losing his right hand, left eye, and two fingers of his left hand to a strafing run in Tunisia, 1943, Lieutenant-Colonel Stauffenberg was sent back to Germany, and from there became a leading conspirator in the clandestine resistance against Nazi rule within the Wehrmacht, orchestrating the unsuccessful 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler: “Operation Valkyrie”. Stauffenberg attended a meeting with Hitler and others on July 20, 1944, carrying a briefcase containing two bombs. However, several complications arose; The meeting was originally supposed to take place in the Führerbunker, but was moved to the Wolfsschanze. Stauffenberg, possessing only 3 fingers, had great difficulty arming the bombs and only armed one before being interrupted by a guard. After placing the briefcase in the room with Hitler, Stauffenberg left, and the briefcase was unwittingly moved farther away by a colonel in attendance. The bomb went off, killing several officers, but Hitler was shielded by a solid oak table leg and was barely scathed. Stauffenberg fled, convinced nobody could have survived the explosion. He was executed for treason the next day. *almost all photos of him post-injury show him wearing a glass eye. Tom Cruise portrays him in “Valkyrie”(2008) with the eyepatch he often wore when not in the presence of senior officers.*