If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

World War II


Conquest of Poland 1939
Following the outbreak of war in 1939 Stauffenberg and his regiment took part in the attack on Poland. " After this titles of nobility were incorporated as part of a surname. Only an immediate armistice could avoid more unnecessary bloodClaus von Stauffenbergd and further damage to Germany its people and other European nations.

Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster he was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the movement he was shot shortly after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie.