Melitta von Stauffenberg was an engineer who insisted on flying her own tests of aircraft modifications she had designed, including more than 2,500 flights to assess the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive ...

No other act of resistance against Adolf Hitler had such a long-term impact as the assassination attempt by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Nevertheless, his plans remain controversial to this day ...

Julian Gavaghan Fri 18 July 2014 at 4:39 pm UTC JULY 20, 1944: Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped with his life after one of his senior army officers detonated a bomb in his Wolf’s Lair military ...

It's been 75 years since Adolph Hitler was nearly killed by his aide, Claus von Stauffenberg, using a suitcase bomb in an attempt to end World War II.

On July 20, 1944, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg attempted to topple the Nazi regime by planting a bomb in Hitler's military headquarters on the eastern front.

Von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944, during a meeting at his headquarters in what was then East Prussia. Hitler escaped the full force of the blast when ...

The memory of von Stauffenberg is close to German hearts. His plot to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944, while unsuccessful, has come to symbolize German resistance to the Nazis.

The last attempt on his life, on July 20. 1944, when Graf von Stauffenberg’s “bomb in the brief ease” exploded at a military staff conference, was almost successful.

Thomas’s interest in the project, Lewis says, was sparked by his German-born wife, Edith, a relative of an early Nazi opponent, Herbert von Bose, who was assassinated on Hitler’s orders in 1934.