Send us a Text Message.Who was Claus von Stauffenberg? Scion of a great family, poet, cellist, soldier, husband, father – and the man who sought to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In this episode we trace Claus’s family background, his upbringing, and major influences in his early life – so different from what we might expect from a would-be revolutionary.He was a child during the First World War, and at the end of that war saw revolutionary action and other turmoil first hand. Claus and his b...