Claus von Stauffenberg took a briefcase of explosives into a meeting with Hitler. Then everything went wrong - ABC News
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Portrait of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (by Michael McNaughton, Portraitmaler, Hamburg) Painting by Michael McNaughton | Saatchi Art
DW Culture - On July 20th, 1944, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg led an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler by placing a bomb in his briefcase. However, the attempt failed and von
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