In a change of plans, however, von Stauffenberg decided to plant the bomb himself.
Claus von Stauffenberg, another officer from an aristocratic family, and presented with a plan to kill Hitler.
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), newly mutilated in the North African campaign, returns to Berlin and finds common cause with other disenchanted Nazis.
Moreover, a resistance movement existed within the army before Stauffenberg's attempt.
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Col Von Stauffenberg, along with von Kleist's father - a known opponent of Hitler - and others involved in the plot were arrested and later executed.
Some of these men later joined the Stauffenberg group and around 200 people who were involved in the plot of July 20th 1944 were killed in its aftermath.
But when news spread that Hitler had survived, the plot crumbled and von Stauffenberg, von Kleist's father, and scores of others were arrested and executed in an orgy of revenge killings.
Col von Stauffenberg - played by Tom Cruise in the 2008 film of the plot, Valkyrie - placed the bomb in a conference room where Hitler was meeting his officials inside the "Wolf's Lair", Hitler's command post in East Prussia.
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