On this day, July 21, 1944 Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators were executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
While Stauffenberg never joined the Nazi party he did support the invasion of Poland and admired much of Hitler’s views in the early days.
He took part in the invasion of Poland and Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Stauffenberg is a respected figure in post war Germany. There are no ifs and buts in history but had the Red Army not defeated the Germans at Stalingrad would Stauffenberg have attempted to assassinate Hitler?
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