Kurt von Plettenberg
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Kurt Freiherr von Plettenberg was a German forester, cavalry officer and a member of the German Resistance. He was involved in the preparations for the 20 July plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hi
Kurt von Plettenberg (1930)
Claus von Stauffenberg
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Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of Op
Kurt von Plettenberg
…the 20 July plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich. Plettenberg belonged to the circle of close friends which included Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Johannes Popitz, Ludwig Beck, Ulrich von Hassell, Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg and Fabian von Schlabrendorff. Kurt was born as a member of an old…
1934 portrait
Stauffenberg with the 17th Cavalry Regiment in Bamberg
Graf von Stauffenberg, left, with Hitler (centre) and Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, right, in an aborted assassination attempt at Rastenburg on 15 July 1944
1951 death certificate