Word: stauffenberg
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...extremely small clique of ambitious, unscrupulous and at the same time foolish, criminally stupid officers hatched a plot to remove me and . . . the staff of the German High Command. The bomb that was placed by Colonel Graf von Stauffenberg exploded two meters [about two yards] away from me on my right side. It wounded very seriously a number of my dear collaborators. One of them has died...
...Executed were: 1) bomb-tossing Colonel Graf Claus von Stauffenberg, member of Hitler's own personal staff since he lost his right arm and eye in Tunisia; 2) Colonel General Ludwig Beck, onetime Chief of Staff, who fought Hitler's intuition in 1938, had since been in retirement. D.N.B. reported: "He is no longer among living beings...