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Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Paul Otto Schmidt stand amid broken beams and debris, inspecting bomb damage at the Wolf's Lair after the July 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler.
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Germany invades Poland, September 1, 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By September 20, only Warsaw held out, but final surrender came on September 29.
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Graf Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg German army officer Claus (count) Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg.

Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg

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Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (born November 15, 1907, Jettingen, Germany—died July 21, 1944, Berlin) was a German army officer who, as the chief conspirator of the July Plot, carried out an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, entered the German army in 1926 and won distinction as a staff officer with a panzer (armoured) division in the campaigns in Poland and northern France (1939–40). After he was transferred to...

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