Vitzthum Wolfgang Graf Der stille Stauffenberg

»The quiet Stauffenberg. The Conspirator Follower of Stefan George and International Lawyer Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg«: Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg has not found a permanent place in the German collective memory. Presenting him as a confidant of his brother Claus as an outstanding international lawyer and as a follower of the poet Stefan George this sketch gives shape and voice to the »quiet« Stauffenberg. Since his introduction to George he has lived under his spell. In the »Third Reich« the war crimes in particular led into active resistance by above all the crim inal war of annihilation. After the failed assassination attempt of July 20 1944 he was executed as one of the co-conspirators.