    
Title: Klaus Schenk von Stauffenberg Description: Klaus Schenk von Stauffenberg (Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg; November 15, 1907-July 21, 1944), a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading members of a plot to kill Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889-April 30, 1945) that failed on July 20, 1944 during World War II; von Stauffenberg and the others were afterward and summarily executed by firing squads; before he died, von Stauffenberg cried out, "Long live our sacred Germany!;" Stauffenberg was profiled by Eduard Franz in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel; and by Tom Cruise in the 2008 film Valkyrie, the latter movie focusing upon the attempted assassination of Hitler in July 1944; Category: World War II Topic: Germany Keywords: assassination attempts, assassinations, autocrats, capital punishments, conspiracies, conspirators, dictators, executions, films, firing squads, military offenses, motion pictures, movies, movie stars, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, plots, Second World War, shootings, Third Reich, tyrant, wars of aggression, World War II, WWII, 1940s. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 890 x 1318 (1.17 MPixels) (1.48) Print Size: 7.5 x 11.2 cm; 3.0 x 4.4 inches File Size: 3.39 MB (3,551,336 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000011360 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
