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Claus Von Stauffenberg

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Military Personnel

The Resume

    (November 15, 1907-July 20, 1944)
    Hauptmann (captain) in the Sixth Panzer Division (1937-1943)
    Awarded the Iron Cross (May 31, 1940)
    Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) in the German military (January 1943-1944)
    Chief of Staff of the Reserve Army (1943-1944)
    Main conspirator in the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (July 20, 1944)
    Captured and executed by firing squad (1944)

Why he might be annoying:

    His full name was Claus Philip Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg.
    He was described as cranky and obstinate.
    He joined the Nazi Party because he agreed with some of its ideals (1933).
    He participated in the German campaigns in Poland, France, Russia, and Africa.
    His plot to kill Hitler was unsuccessful.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He joined the Nazis mainly out of a sense of love for his homeland.
    He was appalled by the atrocities of the SS killing squads.
    He lost his left eye and right hand in an Allied aerial attack (1943).
    Determining that Hitler was leading Germany to ruin, he decided to kill him (1944).
    He left a briefcase filled with explosives in a briefing room Hitler was in. The bomb went off, killing four but leaving Hitler alive.
    His last words before being executed for treason were, 'Long live our sacred Germany.'
    He once said that Hitler was 'evil personified.'
    He is considered a hero of the resistance against the Nazi regime.

Credit: Ratman


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 24 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 74 Votes: 55.41% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 21 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 11 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 30 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 100 Votes: 48.00% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 27 Votes: 48.15% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 25 Votes: 48.00% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 79 Votes: 49.37% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 46 Votes: 69.57% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 80 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 75 Votes: 37.33% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 110 Votes: 31.82% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 115 Votes: 48.70% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 202 Votes: 51.49% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 652 Votes: 49.69% Annoying