“We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.”- Claus Von Stauffenberg
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Claus von Stauffenberg’s Quote
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One of the German Resistance against Nazism Hero, Claus
Von Stauffenberg was executed on this date, July 21, 1944. We, the comrades of
Unit 1012: The VFFDP, respects and honor him as a War Hero and we will remember
him every year on July 21 and also November 15
Let us remember him. We hope his story can be an
inspiration for us to stand up against evil. Do see his quotes:
"Is there no officer over there in the Führer's headquarters capable of shooting that beast!" he says to a fellow officer in August 1942.
"The point is ... to kill him, and I am prepared to do that," von Stauffenberg says to another fellow officer later the same year.
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Benito Mussolini visits Hitler's headquarter Wolfsschanze
near Rastenburg (Ketrzyn) in East Prussia in the day of 20 july attenat. The
view of destroyed corridor of barrack (There is Dr Paul Schmidt - Mussolini's
interpreter in the background).
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“We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.”
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A German stamp of Stauffenberg and Helmuth James Graf von Moltke in
commemoration of their 100th birthdays.
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“It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not do it, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience.”
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Death certificate of Claus Schenk Graf von
Stauffenberg, shot on July 20, 1944; certificate from the city of Bamberg,
written in 1951
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“Can the Church grant absolution to a murderer who has taken the life of a tyrant?”
- Claus Von Stauffenberg, after praying at a Catholic Chapel.
"Fate has offered us this opportunity, and I would not refuse it for anything in the world," von Stauffenberg says, continuing, "I have examined myself before God and my conscience. It must be done because this man (Hitler) is evil personified."
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| Claus von Stauffenberg |
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf
von Stauffenberg,
commonly referred to as Claus Schenk
Graf von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊs ˈʃɛŋk ˈɡʁaːf fɔn ˈʃtaʊfənbɛɐ̯k]),
Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (15
November 1907 – 21 July 1944), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was
one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf
Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power. 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 executed by firing squad shortly
after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie.
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