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Witness History

The man who tried to kill Hitler

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg put a bomb under Adolf Hitler's desk. Although the bomb exploded, it failed to kill the German Nazi leader. Alex Last spoke to Berthold von Stauffenberg, son of the WW2 army officer, in 2014.

Photo:Claus von Stauffenberg. Credit: Gedenkstaette Deutscher Widersta/AFP/Getty Images

Transcript

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Hello and Today another chance to hear a remarkable story from 2014 when I spoke to the son of Colonel

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Klaus von Stauffenberg, the German Army officer who in July 1944 attempted to kill Adolf Hitler.

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It's the 20th of July, 1944, and a 36-year-old German Army officer, Colonel Klaus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, has arrived at the Fuerer's

1:12.3

headquarters, the Wolf's lair, hidden in a forest in East Prussia.

1:17.0

His secret mission is to kill Hitler.

1:21.0

I think that they were not sure that they would succeed, but Henning von Tresco

1:27.0

said this, the attack on Hitler must go on, if only to prove that not all Germans were his followers.

1:37.0

Colonel Klaus von Stauffenberg was an aristocratic Catholic career army officer.

1:46.0

A conservative and a nationalist he had supported the Nazi regime at times,

1:51.0

but as the war progressed, his doubts grew, troubled by German atrocities in the east

1:56.8

and the realization that Germany was losing the war. But on the surface, he appeared to be a model soldier.

2:04.0

Everybody says my father was extremely good looking.

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The dark hairs, blue eyes, slightly wavy hair, tall.

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It was a very cheerful man. He laughed a lot and well we thought he was

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