The 20 July Plot: Inside Operation Valkyrie and the Attempt to Kill Hitler

Stauffenberg, Hitler, and the Ever-Forgotten Anniversary - Catholic Insight

“With particular seriousness he added that it was questionable whether the coup would succeed, but even worse than failure would be the shame of submitting tamely to oppression and allowing oneself to be paralyzed by it. Freedom, both internal and external, could only be won by action.” – A German officer’s description of his conversation with Claus von Stauffenberg.[1] 2024 marked eighty years since the so-called “July plot” or “July 20 plot”, …

The 20 July Plot: Inside Operation Valkyrie and the Attempt to Kill Hitler

(Trying out a new lay out, feedback is appreciated) Executive Summary On 20 July 1944, German Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg placed a bomb in Hitler’s Eastern Front headquarters (Wolfsschanze / Wolf’s Lair) in East Prussia. The explosion injured but did not kill Hitler. The conspirators—an underground network of senior officers, diplomats, clergy, and […]