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.
The location include the so-called Bendlerblock where Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were shot after the attempt to kill Hitler failed.
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Von Stauffenberg placed the bomb in a conference room where Hitler was meeting with his aides and military advisers at his East Prussian headquarters.
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.
While an infantry officer, he was approached by Col von Stauffenberg - who suggested he wear a suicide vest under a new uniform he was due to be modelling for Hitler.
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.
He was supposed to carry a briefcase packed with explosives to a meeting with the Nazi leader, but in a change of plan the bomb was planted by plot mastermind Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
Von Kleist had been chosen as the officer to model a new uniform for Hitler, and von Stauffenberg proposed that he wear a suicide vest underneath, and detonate it when he stood next to the dictator.
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.
Months later, however, von Kleist was approached again by von Stauffenberg to take part in what would become known as the July 20 plot for the day in 1944 that the assassination was attempted which was brought to the big screen in 2008 in "Valkyrie, " starring Tom Cruise as von Stauffenberg.
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