Mungkin ramai tahu nama2 seperti Guderian, Mainstein, Rommel..tapi kenal tak sape Col. Stauffenburg nie?
Dia adalah antara perancang utama komplot 20th July utk membunuh Hitler.....
Count Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf[1] von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and Roman Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading officers of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power in World War II Germany. He was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement.
Now, the story is a major motion picture ...coming soon on the 25th of December 2008...
3 times Col Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler.....below the series of events....
THE BERGHOF
On July 11, 1944, Staff Officer Lt. Colonel Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, convinced that he and he alone could assassinate Hitler, attended another conference at the Berghof. Concealed inside his briefcase was a time bomb. Waiting outside in a gateaway car was his co-conspirator, Captain Friedrich Klausing. Inside the Berghof, Stauffenberg telephones his colleagues in Berlin to tell them that neither Goering nor Himmler is present. They insist that the attempt be aborted. Stauffenberg then returns to Berlin to plan his next assassination attempt.
RASTENBURG
Stauffenberg抯 second attempt occurs at Hitler抯 Wolf抯 Lair headquarters in East Prussia. On July 15, 1944, he attends a Fuhrers briefing and observes with dismay that Himmler is again absent. The attempt was once again aborted.
RASTENBURG
Thirty six year-old Stauffenberg抯 final attempt occured on July 20, 1944. Four days earlier, the attempt was decided upon during a meeting at his residence at No. 8 Tristanstrasse, Wansee. Himmler or no Himmler, the attempt must go ahead, come what may. At 12.00pm Stauffenberg and General Fromm report to Field Marshal Keitel抯 office for a briefing before entering the conference room. At 12.37pm, Stauffenberg places his briefcase containing the bomb under the map table, then leaves the room on the pretext of making a telephone call. The officer (Colonel Brandt, No.4) who took his place noticed the briefcase and with his foot pushed it further under the table. The heavy oak table support protected Hitler from the full force of the explosion. At 12.42pm, the bomb explodes. By this time Stauffenberg is on his way back to Berlin. At 6.28pm a radio broadcast from Wolf抯 Lair reports that Hitler is alive but only slightly wounded. Later that night, at 12.30am, Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators, Haeften, Olbricht and Mertz, are arrested and executed by firing squad in the inner courtyard of the Bendlerstrasse Headquarters.
(Immediately after Colonel Stauffenberg's assassination attempt, his wife and four children were arrested and imprisoned. Freed by the Allies at the end of the war and pregnant at the time of her arrest, she gave birth to her fifth child while in prison. One of her brothers, Berthold, was also arrested and executed after the failed plot)
Nie kedudukan bomb yg diletakan oleh orang yg terlibat dalam operation valkyrie dalam bilik mesyuarat Hitler di Wolfs Lair...
1Adolf Hitler
2General Heusinger
3Luftwaffe General Korten (Died of wounds)
4Colonel Brandt (Died of wounds)
5Luftwaffe General Bodenschatz (Severely wounded)
6General Schnunt (Died of wounds)
7Lt. Colonel Borgman (Severely wounded)
8Rear Admiral Von Puttkamer
9Stenographer Berger (Killed on the spot)
10Naval Captain Assmann
11General Scherff
12General Buhle
13Rear Admiral Voss
14SS Group Leader Fegelein
15Colonel Von Bellow
16SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Gunsche
17Stenographer Hagen
18Lt. Colonel Von John (Adjutant to Keitel)
19Major Buchs (Adjutant to Jodl)
20Lt. Colonel Weizenegger
21Min. Counsellor Von Sonnleithner
22General Warlimont (Concussion)
23General Jodl (Lightly wounded)
24Field Marshal Keitel
Rumah Stauffenberg sekarang
Tempat execution
[ Last edited by matmin77 at 11-12-2008 11:56 PM ]
Memang nasib tak baik sebab beg bom tu dialihkan jadi kuasa letupan tu kebanyakannya diserap kaki meja. Kalau tak salah bom tu sama kuat dengan peluru artileri 150mm.
Yang lebih ngok ialah konspirator lain yang sepatutnya pputuskan hubungan telefon antara Rastenburg dengan Jerman.