Stauffenberg Leads Hitler Assassination Attempt

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On July 20, 1944, Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg successfully detonated a bomb in a meeting between Hitler and other top Nazi leaders. The plot, featured in the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie, was the culmination of efforts by officers who felt Germany was being led to disaster and that Hitler had to be removed from power.

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