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The Stauffenberg plot to kill Hitler failed — and a good thing too

The Stauffenberg plot to kill Hitler failed — and a good thing too

issue 24 July 2004
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If only the assassination attempted 60 years ago last Tuesday had succeeded, we have heard all this week. But what was the conspirators’ idea of success? In particular, what did the awesome man whose sonorous name we have heard this week really believe? Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg was of his time and his class, we are told.

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