Claus Von Stauffenberg After The Night Of Broken Glass

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Claus Von Stauffenberg is a skilled equestrian and a part of the German Olympic team. He was also German military Lieutenant that had a distasteful opinion of Adolf Hitler when he came to power. At first Stauffenberg was enchanted by Hitler because he restored patriotism to the people of Germany. Not after long did Stauffenberg start to dislike how Hitler was anti-semitic and creating harsh limitations on them. After the Night of Broken Glass, Stauffenberg decides that he must kill Hitler. While being deployed Stauffenberg sustained heavy injuries such as losing a hand, fingers,and his left eye. He did not give up on his plan to kill Hitler and he started planning with others forming a resistance to Hitler. His plan was simple sounding but

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