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Remembering Stauffenberg's plot to kill Hitler

Michael Marek / Gabriel BorrudJuly 11, 2019

On July 20, 1944, a German army officer named Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The bomb he planted went off, but the Führer survived. Stauffenberg and his accomplices were executed immediately afterwards. But what ended up happening to their families? And, 75 years on, what do eyewitnesses still remember of that day?

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