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July 20, 1944, found the Stauffenberg family gathered, as they had so many summers before, at their rambling country house in the village of Lautlingen, in the rolling Swabian Alps of southern Germany. With the war in its fifth year and taking an increasingly ominous turn for Germany, most of the adult male members of the aristocratic Catholic clan—twins Alexander and Berthold, and their brilliant younger brother Claus—were absent. Presiding over the household of six boisterous children were Claus’s wife, Nina; the children’s grandmother, Caroline, and their great-aunt Alexandrine; and their great-uncle Nikolaus Üxküll, known to all as “Uncle Nux.” Only he knew that their lives were about to be shattered.
“By then the war was getting uncomfortably close,” Claus’s eldest son, Berthold, recalled in a recent interview—which made the escape from their house in Bamberg, some 130 miles to the northeast, especially welcome. “Even in that provincial backwater there were constant air raids
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Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944 [Third edition] 9780773575295
Table of contents :
Contents
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Prologue
1 Childhood, a World War, and a new beginning
2 Secret Germany
3 Reichswehr
4 Sea change
5 In the Third Reich
6 Crisis and war
7 On the General Staff
8 Stauffenberg turns against Hitler
9 In the front line
10 Conspiracy
11 Planning the coup: internal preparations
12 Contacts abroad
13 Assassination plans
14 Launching the insurrection
15 Uprising
Epilogue
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Stauffenberg A Family History, 1905-1944
PETER HOFFMANN
Third Edition
McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca
© McGill-Queen's University Press 2008 ISBN 978-0-7735-3544-2
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Schenk von Stauffenberg-Lerchenfeld, Magdalena “Nina”, born Lerchenfeld, on 27-08-1913 in Kaunas, Lithuania,to General Consul Gustav Freiherr von Lerchenfeld (1871–1944) and a Baltic-German noblewoman, Anna Freiin von Stackelberg (1880–1945). She married Oberst Claus von Stauffenberg, an officer in the German army and a key player in the internal conspiracy to assassinate Hitler during World War II. Nina and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg first met around 1930 and were married on 26-09-1933 in Bamberg. General Paul von Hindenburg is buried in Bamberg In accordance with von Stauffenberg’s father’s tradition, the couple’s children were raised as Catholics, although Nina and Stauffenberg’s own mother were Protestant. The marriage produced five children: Berthold Maria Schenk Graf ov Stauffenberg in 1934. Heimeran Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , born in Bamberg 09-07-1936, unmarried and without issue. Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg