We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

World War II


Conquest of Poland 1939
Following the outbreak of war in 1939 Stauffenberg and his regiment took part in the attack on Poland. " After this titles of nobility were incorporated as part of a surname. Only an immediate armistice could avoid more unnecessary bloodClaus von Stauffenbergd and further damage to Germany its people and other European nations.

Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster he was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the movement he was shot shortly after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie.