This turned out to be an optimal position from which to foment a coup. This Replacement Army was tasked with providing replacement troops to frontline units attritted in action.
He later joked with friends he never really knew what to do with so many fingers when he still had them.Īfter months-long recovery, von Stauffenberg was posted to the Ersatzheer in Berlin. Severely injured in the attack, the young Wehrmacht officer lost his left eye, right hand and two fingers from his left hand. In April 1943 von Stauffenberg’s column was strafed by Australian P40 Kittyhawks. By 1942 he was serving in Tunisia with Rommel’s Afrika Korps. He invaded Russia in 1941 as part of Operation Barbarossa. Von Stauffenberg fought with the Wehrmacht during the invasion of Poland as well as in France, earning an Iron Cross First Class for his trouble. The Night of the Long Knives and Kristallnacht along with the systemic oppression of the Jews, gradually turned von Stauffenberg against the Nazis and the deranged Austrian Corporal who led them. A devout Catholic who gravitated toward National Socialism when he thought it was the vehicle to lift post-World War I Germany out of its economic and political mire, he soon became disillusioned. The Stauffenberg bloodline was one of the most storied in Germany. Von Stauffenberg was born in the Stauffenberg Castle, the third of four sons. His hereditary titles included “Graf” (Count) and “Schenk” (Cupbearer). Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was old German aristocracy.
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