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Claus Von Stauffenberg

11/15/1907 - 7/20/1944
Scorpio

Last Words

"Es lebe das heilige Deutschland!"

Death & Legacy

Count Claus von Stauffenberg, the 37-year-old leader of the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, was executed by a firing squad in the courtyard of the War Ministry in Berlin. The count, a colonel in the general staff, was one of the last members of the German nobility to hold a high post in the Nazi regime.

Read full obituary from The New York Times

Details

Cause of Death
Execution by firing squad
Age at Death
36 years
Funeral Location
Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Cemetery, Berlin, Germany
Final Resting Place
Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Cemetery, Berlin, Germany