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Hoepner was a member of the established conspiracy network even before the war. He was supposed to use his command at the time (the 1st Light Division) to block off Berlin from loyalist troops if the meetings between Hitler and Chamberlain in Munich led to war with Great Britain and France. His late...

I only have information on the Grafen v. der Decken and other non-titled members of that particular line of the family. No Klaus v. der Decken listed there, I'm afraid. If it's of any interest, however, here's some information of another family member serving in the Heer: Georg Ernst v. der Decken ,...

Col. Graf Stauffenberg and Capt. Klausing were involved in a fire fight with some officers of the Replacement Army and General Army Office staff, if I remember correctly Lt.Col. von der Heyde , Lt.Col. Herber and Maj. Fliessbach . Apparently Klausing was the first one to fire. The fire fight ended w...

For your information: After the executions took place the bodies of the five conspirators - Gen. Olbricht , Col. Graf Stauffenberg , Col. Mertz , Lieut. von Haeften and Col.Gen. (Ret.) Beck - is delivered by truck to the nearby Matthäikirche, where the bodies are buried so quickly that not even thei...

The conspirators were not demoted, they were thrown out of the Armed Forces all together. This was the purpouse of the Court of Honor, to transform the conspirators into civilians by declaring them "unworthy to bear arms" and then to hand them over to the People's Court, which only had jur...

You're making the critical error in assuming, like most others do, that killing Hitler was the final goal of the conspirators. It was not. The final goal was to take Germany out of the war, save lives and put an end to the crimes committed in the name of the German people. Killing Hitler was not the...

max painless: 1. Graf Stauffenberg did in no way act badly. Circumstances outside his control is what made the assassination unsuccesful, by example I could mention these things: 1a. When arming the bomb charges they - Graf Stauffenberg and Lieutenant (Res.) von Haeften - got interrupted by a specia...

1. I probably would not mention him if it wasn't for his attempt to blow up Hitler , even though he showed bravery on every front he fought at, particularly in Tunisia. But I consider his bravery of a higher level than most else, because in battle, if someone tries to kill you or yours, it's natural...

I agree on Colonel (GS) Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg . I would also nominate Major Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst , who apart from volunteering to kill Hitler by the means of suicide, was shot through the chest on three separate occasions and finally lost his left leg to a mortar sh...

Clemens-Heinich Graf von Kageneck
(17.10.1913-18.03.2005)

Leutnant: ?
Oberleutnant: ?
Hauptmann: ?
Major: ?

EK II: 26.09.1939
EK I: 03.07.1941
DKiG: 28.11.1942
RK: 04.08.1943
RKmEL: 26.06.1944 (513th)

While Speidel has allegedly changed his statements concerning the conspiracy several times, no one have ever said the same of von Tresckow . My knowledge about the conspiracy is, however, centered around Graf Stauffenberg , and therefore I'm not going into any details here. Claiming that Rommel supp...

The question regarding Rommel's interactions with the anti-Hitler conspiracy seems endless. This might provide you with some interesting reading:

Did von Rundstedt encourage Rommel to act against Hitler

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Alecci

The second one might be Air Captain Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, 09.01.1903-08.04.1945, daughter of Michael Schiller and Margarete Eberstein, wife of Professor Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and sister-in-law of Colonel (GS) Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.

My reply is sadly lacking of clarity then. But never fear...

Lieutenant-Colonel Henning von Tresckow is almost for certain a relative of Fieldmarshal Erwin von Witzleben, but the question is how they are related.

Hope I made a better point this time, and forgive me for my clumsy previous reply.

He was most probably a relative of Fieldmarshal von Witzleben, since they bear the same name of a German noble family, and noble names were more often than not considered to be subject of patents. Their family relationship, however, might date several generations back if the family 'von Witzleben' i...