Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

April 21st, 1918. A day of dogfights, death and controversy. Particularly the death of Manfred von Richthofen, Also known as “The Red Baron”. The death of the famous World War 1 pilot has sparked controversy from the days after his death to even present day. It is not known for sure who shot down Richthofen. The man credited with the kill was Roy Brown of the 209th squadron. Who chased the Baron in a dogfight which ended in the death of the Baron Based on where the Baron was shot and the angle, The time frame from the shot to his death, and that the bullet was found intact. It was not Roy Brown who shot down the Red Baron. But it was in fact the Australian machine gunner, Sgt. Cedric Popkin. After the body of Richthofen was recovered and autopsy was performed. The conclusion of this autopsy showed that “the round that killed von Richthofen had entered the right side of his chest “about the level of the ninth rib...just in front of the posterior axillary line. The bullet appears to have passed obliquely backwards through the chest, striking the spinal column, from which it glanced in a forward direction and issued on the left side of the chest at a level about two inches…

A mystery that has lasted almost a century, who killed Manfred Von Richthofen, also known as the dangerous WW1 threat, The Red Baron? With information being pulled up from every angle and the conclusion has finally been drawn. Countless pieces of evidence have been narrowed down to three vital points. The rounds, the range of the shot taken to kill the Red Baron, and the Angle from which he was shot at, all prove that Sergeant Cedric Popkin shot down the German legend. To begin, The rounds…

Chapter 1: Introduction On July 20, 1944, a group of high ranking German military officials attempted to carry out one of the most daring assassination plots in history, which, had it been successful, would have changed the course of WWII and the world. On that fateful day, a young staff officer, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf Von Stauffenberg planted a bomb in the Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s lair), the Prussian field headquarters of Third Reich Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, who was meeting with his generals, in…