All involved in the 20th july plot. - Statistics

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What are they known for Name Date of death Fate Rank/role % Correct
Went to the Bendlerstraße, which the coup leaders intended to use as the centre of their operations in Berlin, arrested at Bendlerstraße the same night Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg 10 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Judge
83%
Lead/ Head of the plot Claus von Stauffenberg 21 July 1944 Executed (Firing squad) Colonel
83%
The desert Fox Erwin Rommel 14 October 1944 Suicide (Forced) Field Marshall
83%
Chief of the General Staff of the German Army High Command Ludwig Beck 20 July 1944 Executed (Shot) Generaloberst
50%
He was responsible for the courier service between military posts in Berlin and the so-called Führerhauptquartier "Wolfsschanze" and arranged for the explosive that was to be used in the attempt on Hitler's life Albrecht von Hagen 8 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
33%
Assessed the chances of the coup attempt as "only ten percent", tried to draw Rommel into the plot Caersar von hofacker 20 December 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lieutenant Colonel
33%
Mayor of Leipzig Carl Friedrich Goerdeler 2 February 1945 Executed (Hanging) Mayor
33%
Commander-in-Chief OB West, command of the 1st Army Erwin von Witzleben 8 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Field Marshall
33%
By late 1943, his office was the centre of Resistance plotting, would have assumed the position of minister of war in a post-Nazi regime Friedrich Olbricht 21 July 1944 Executed (Firing squad) General of infantry
33%
Mayor of Kwidzyn Fritz Goerdeler 23 February 1945 Executed (Hanging) Mayor
33%
Kluge went on to command the 4th Army in Operation Barbarossa, battle of moscow Gunther von Kluge 19 August 1944 Suicide Field Marshall
33%
Interrogated and temporarily taken into custody on 6 September 1943 under charges of comparing Hitler and Göring with the two criminals crucified alongside Jesus Christ, he was temporarily released, local Nazi officials re-arrested him on 15 May 1944 Joseph Muller 11 September 1944 Executed (Guillotine) Priest
33%
Agreed to stand ready in Baden to take a leading role in Germany's reconstruction Reinhold Frank 23 January 1945 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
33%
his instructional concept, inspired by the Wandervogel movement and labour-school pedagogy Adolf Reichwein 20 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Economist
17%
Head of Staff of the 24th Army Corps at the Eastern Front, Chief of Staff at the Army's General Office in Berlin Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim 21 July 1944 Executed (Firing squad) Colonel
17%
Military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek, head of the military government of Belgium Alexander von Falkenhausen 31 July 1966 Survived General of infantry
17%
Chief of Kriminalpolizei Arthur Nebe 21 March 1945 Executed (Hanging) SS-Gruppenführer
17%
In view of the crimes he witnessed involuntarily, there were only three ways for an officer to protect his honor "by joining the group of victims" Axel von dem Bussche 26 January 1993 Survived Major
17%
Unsuccessful to commit suicide and was imprisoned in a concentration camp and tried for treason, The camp was liberated on April 22, 1945, a day before he was expected to be sentenced to death and executed Carl-Hans von Hardenberg October 24, 1958 Survived Major
17%
Commander of the 17th Army, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel 30 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) General of the Infantry
17%
Key founding member of the Confessing Church, accused of being associated with the 20 July plot Dietrich Bonhoeffer 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Theologian
17%
First served in Poland and on the Eastern Front as quartermaster of the 6th Army and in 1943 for Army Group South. Eberhard Finckh 30 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Colonel
17%
Early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, commanded the 4th Panzer Group on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa, spearheaded the advance on Moscow in Operation Typhoon Erich Hoepner 8 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Generaloberst
17%
Drafted a Provisional Constitution, on the assumption that the forthcoming attack on the Western Front would lead to the overthrow Hitler's regime Erwin Planck 23 January 1945 Executed (Hanging) Diplomat
17%
Belonged to the Potsdam Infantry Regiment 9 only one to escape the firefight at the Bendlerblock Friedrich Klausing 8 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Captain
17%
Communications chief of the German Army during Fritz Thiele 4 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lieutenant General
17%
Led the Nazi security warfare operations in the Army Group Centre Rear Area on the Eastern Front Georg von Boeselager 27 August 1944 KIA Colonel
17%
Arrested in August 1944 on plotting charges, and was severely mistreated in jail Hans John 23 April 1945 Executed (Firing squad) Lawyer
17%
Led his battalion to the gates of Kiev, task to control the messages which were to mobilize Operation Valkyrie in favour of the coup. As his name was at the top of the duty roster, he was the first to be identified as a conspirator Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal 13 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major
17%
Leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943, deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau Hans Oster 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Major General
17%
1939 with 15th infantry division and 1940 with the 10th army corps, in 1941 with the 9th army corps in Russia. In April 1944, he was dispatched to Paris, France, as Chief of Staff Hans Otfried von Linstow 30 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Colonel
17%
In August 1940 became Chief of Staff of the military commander in France, served as Chief of Staff of the 5th Army Corps, and as Chief of Staff of 8th Army in 1943 Hans Speidel 28 November 1984 Survived Lieutenant General
17%
Member of the OKH, Hellmuth Stieff 8 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major General
17%
Protested the mass persecution of Jews by offering his resignation, which was refused Johannes Popitz 2 February 1945 Executed (Hanging) Minister of Finance of Prussia
17%
Member of the Reichstag, betrayed by an informer among an underground communist group Julius Leber 5 January 1945 Executed (Hanging) Politician
17%
he had contacts with the church resistance, he had many contacts in the military resistance, he was connected to the social-democratic resistance Klaus Bonhoeffer 23 April 1945 Executed (Shot) Lawyer
17%
Was the secretary in the Bendlerblock headquarters of the Defense Ministry Margarethe von Oven 5 February 1991 Survived Secretary
17%
Chief of staff of the III Military District which covered Berlin and Brandenburg Otto Herfurth 29 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major General
17%
Worked as a lawyer at the Deutsche Lufthansa legal office in Madrid and used contacts he had made with British intelligence to escape to England and avoid certain execution Otto John 26 March 1997 Survived Lawyer
17%
Chief of the Reich Press Office Otto Kiep 26 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Diplomat
17%
Member of the Reichstag, floated the idea for a European market Paul Lejeune-Jung 8 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Politician
17%
Ordered the Guard Battalion to seal off the government quarter in Berlin during the subsequent coup d'état attempt Paul Von Hase 8 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lieutenant General
17%
He initiated and led the discussions of the Kreisau Circle, which met very often at his home, he remained in the innermost circle of the conspirators until the very end Peter Yorck von Wartenburg 8 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
17%
Informed in time to turn his unexplained cavalry retreat around and return to the front before suspicions could be aroused his involvement the operation went undetected, and he was not executed, unlike the majority of the conspirators. Philipp von Boeselager 1 May 2008 Survived Lieutenant Colonel
17%
Austrian resistance fighter, responsible for the order that set Operation Valkyrie in motion Robert Bernardis 8 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lieutenant Colonel
17%
He was on the board of directors of the Leipziger Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr & Co. AG Walter Cramer 14 November 1944 Executed (Hanging) Businessman
17%
Head of the Abwehr Wilhelm Canaris 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Admiral
17%
Was one of the leaders of the 20th July plot Adam von Trott zu Solz 26 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Diplomat
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Involved in Hess' attempts to negotiate peace with the French and British, acting as an intermediary, speculated that he may have encouraged Hess's 1941 flight Albrecht Haushofer 23 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Diplomat
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Transferred to Lehrter Strasse prison, in Berlin's Moabit district, where the Gestapo interrogated him under torture. At the end of April 1945, he was assassinated by the SS Albrecht von Bernstorff 24 April 1945 Executed (Firing squad) Diplomat
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Referred to by modern historians as 'Hitler's favourite intelligence analyst, tasked with espionage on the Western Front, planted through Allied deception helped to save thousands of Allied lives by diverting Axis and Nazi forces Alexis von Roenne 12 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Colonel
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Secretly helped Jews who were escaping to Switzerland through the underground Alfred Delp 2 February 1945 Executed (Hanging) Priest
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Member of the Kriegsmarine he served on the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, worked in the Operations Department of the 1st Sea War Branch of the Naval High Command as liaison officer to the Foreign Ministry Alfred Kranzfelder 10 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lieutenant Commander
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His wife succeeded in delaying his execution until the Red Army occupied Berlin Andreas Hermes 4 January 1964 Survived Minister of Finance
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built up the biggest KPD resistance group, called the "Operative Leadership of the KPD", called on people to commit sabotage Anton Saefkow 8 September 1944 Executed (Guillotine) Lawyer
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He was earmarked to be the Reconstruction Minister Bernhard Letterhaus 14 November 1944 Executed (Hanging) Trade unionist
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Became a consultant on the staff of the General Army Office (AHA) Busso Thoma 23 January 1945 Executed (Hanging) Major
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He was aware that Himmler was interested in the idea of negotiating peace behind Adolf Hitler's bac. He suggested a coup d'état as the war was lost, but Himmler was not interested Carl Langbehn 12 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
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Succeeded in rounding up nearly all Nazi officials in Vienna he was able to convince the Gestapo that he was only following orders and thus he escaped punishment Carl Szokoll 25 August 2004 Survived Major
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Farmer and agricultural contractor Carl Wentzel 20 December 1944 Executed (Hanging) Landowner
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Established extensive links with the resistance fighters that took part in the 20 July Plot Eduard Brücklmeier 20 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Diplomat
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Member of the executive board of the German Industry and Commerce Day and Minister for Trade, Industry and Commerce in the governments of the Free State of Bavaria Eduard Hamm 2 September 1944 Suicide Minister of the Economy
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Served as quartermaster-general, created policies against Soviet POWs Eduard Wagner 23 July 1944 Suicide General of the Artillery
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Took on the foreseen logistical connections between City Commandant and Police President Egbert Hayessen 15 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major
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Family shelter one of the plotters Elizabeth Gloeden 30 November 1944 Executed (Guillotine) Teacher
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Head of the cipher bureau of the Ministry of the Reichswehr, later the OKW/Chi Erich Fellgielbel 4 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) General of the Communications Troops
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Worked for the Organisation Todt as an architect, family shelter one of the plotters Erich Gloeden 30 November 1944 Executed (Guillotine) Architect
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Member of the Bavarian parliament from 1912 to 1920, in 1918 he became leader of the general command of the III Royal Bavarian Corps Ernst Schneppenhorst 24 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Ministers of War of Bavaria
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Member of the Reichstag Ernst Von Harnack 5 March 1945 Executed (Hanging) Politician
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Member of the Reichstag Eugen Bolz 23 January 1945 Executed (guilliten) Politician
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Was at his assigned place at the Bendlerblock in Berlin to support the attempted assassination and coup d'état, Roland Freisler gave a unusually lenient sentence of 7 years of labor Eugen Gerstenmaier 13 March 1986 Survived Theologian
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He was in the group that was to stage the coup in Berlin, he managed to cover up his resistance activities, and proceedings against him were dropped in December 1944 for lack of evidence Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin 8 March 2013 Survived Lieutenant
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Convincing Roland Freisler that he was suffering from memory loss. Avoiding conviction he was committed to a sanatorium and survived the war Ewald Loeser 23 December 1970 Survived Lawyer
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Found his way into the plot's inner circle and advocated a number of violent acts to get rid of Hitler Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Diplomat
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Acted as a secret liaison between Tresckow in Russia and the plotters, failed 13 March 1943 plot Fabian von Schlabrendorff 4 September 1980 Survived Adjutant General
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Member of the Reichstag and Oberpräsident of the Province of Westphalia Ferdinand von Lüninck 14 November 1944 Executed (Hanging) Politician
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He agreed to be ready to take over the position of Ober-Präsident of Silesia in the democratic new beginning which the lotters hoped would follow a successful revolution Franz Leuninger 1 March 1945 Executed (Hanging) Trade unionist
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Brought together a small group of Bavarian monarchists such as ministers and bankers and businessmen, he organized himself with the resistance groups in Switzerland and in Bavaria Franz Sperr 23 January 1945 Executed (Hanging) Major
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Was meant to arrest Joseph Goebbels and occupy the radio station in Masurenallee, commander of the Panzer reserve troops in defence districts II (Stettin) and XXI (Kalisch) Friedrich Gustav Jaeger 21 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Colonel
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Christian beliefs led him to join the opposition to Nazism early, was relieved of his office, transferred to the Führerreserve in 19 42 Friedrich Von Rabenau 15 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) General of Artillery
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Ambassador of Germany to the Soviet Union Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg 10 November 1944 Executed (Hanging) Ambassador
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In 1939, he was appointed as acting Oberpräsident of Upper and Lower Silesia. Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg 10 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Oberpräsident of the Province of Silesia
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Would read the conspirators' proclamation to the German people over the radio Fritz Lindemann 22 September 1944 Died of injuries in custody General of the Artillery
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organised the use of cars and airplanes as well as the protection of the co-conspirators, his house in Rangsdorf often served as the meeting place for the conspirators Georg Hansen 8 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Colonel
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Leading participant in planning and carrying out economic exploitation of the Soviet Union, most notably the Hunger Plan Georg Thomas 29 December 1946 Survived General of infantry
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Was a carrier of secret dispatches, captured by the British Army following the Battle of Monte Cassino, Pope Pius XII saved him from execution from the french Gereon Goldmann 26 July 2003 Survived Priest
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Member of the Reichstag and grandson of the 19th century Chancellor Otto von Bismarck Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen 14 September 1949 Survived Politician
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Tried to get his superior Zeitzler to participate in the plot, but to no avail Gunther Smend 8 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lieutenant Colonel
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Member of the Reichstag, liberated from Brandenburg-Görden Prison by the Red Army in April 1945 Gustav Dahrendorf 30 October 1954 Survived Politician
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Commanded the 65th Infantry Division in Italy Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg 2 February 1945 Executed (Firing squad) Lieutenant General
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Arranged for appointment as Vice Consul in Switzerland, met with Allen Dulles in 1943 and agreed to serve as a liaison for the German opposition to Hitler Hans Bernd Gisevius 23 February 1974 Survived Diplomat
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Stood ready to take power at the Foreign Ministry for the plotters His brother had been summarily shot in the early hours of 21 July at the Bendlerblock along with 3 others Hans Bernd von Haeften 15 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
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Sentenced to death for keeping his knowledge of the plot to himself Hans Georg Klamroth 26 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major
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Was slated to become the presiding judge of the Reichsgericht Hans Knoch 24 April 1945 Extrajudicially shot Lawyer
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Served in Army Group Centre under one of the main leaders of the plot, was the liaison officer to the commander of the defense group III, and passed on the first Valkyrie orders Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen 21 July 1944 Suicide Major
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made records for himself of the régime's crimes, altogether, 13 people were able to leave Germany without hindrance, thanks to forgeries and operation known as U-7, Hans von Dohnanyi 8 or 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
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Liaison officer in the Wehrkreis XX Hasso von Boehmer 5 March 1945 Executed (Hanging) Lieutenant Colonel
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First lieutenant in the reserves, Lehndorff was deployed as liaison officer to Defence District I Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort 4 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Landowner
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Last post was as major general and Chief of the Acting General Command in Danzig, Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten 14 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major General
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Helped organize German resistance, drafted the Valkyrie plan for a coup against the German government. He was described by the Gestapo as the "prime mover" behind the 20 July 1944 plot Henning von Tresckow 21 July 1944 Suicide Major General
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sentenced to death on 14 September 1944 for his knowledge of the plot Hermann Josef Wehrle 14 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Priest
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organized resistance among former labor unionists, he was charged at the Volksgerichtshof for his involvement in the resistance movement Hermann Maab 20 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
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was not directly informed of the 20 July Plot, his knowledge of the plot to assassinate Hitler as well as his close ties to the resistance group forced him to go into hiding for the remainder of World War II Jakob Kaiser 7 May 1961 Survived Lawyer
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Became Chief of the Organization Department of the Armed Forces Command in 1943 Joachim Meichssner 29 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Colonel
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Responsible for the duplication and transmission of the "Valkyrie" orders in the Bendlerblock in Berlin Joachim Sadrozinski 29 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lieutenant Colonel
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Designated as a political commissioner in military district II (Stettin) after a successful coup Joachim von Willisen 5 April 1983 Survived Diplomat
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Brought the trade unionists and the Social Democrats, the church circles and the old noble élites in Josef Wirmer 8 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
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Member of the Reichstag, sentenced to penal servitude rather than execution. He was freed by American troops in April 1945 Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött 13 May 1981 Survived Politician
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Member of the Reichstag Joseph Ersing August 5, 1956 Survived Politician
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Served on the Eastern Front, in 1942 and 1943 with the 18th Panzer Division Karl Freiherr von Thüngen 24 October 1944 Executed (Firing squad) Lieutenant General
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Counterintelligence at the Foreign Affairs Office in Berlin Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg 23/24 April 1945 Murdered Colonel and journalist
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Been slated for the role of Justice Minister within a planned post-coup civilian government Karl Sack 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) General
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Administered the property of the former royal house of Schaumburg-Lippe, battalion leader and commander of a subsidiary regiment of Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam, threw himself out of a third-floor window of the Gestapo’s "house prison" Kurt von Plettenberg 10 March 1945 Suicide Landowner
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Supposed to become a liaison officer in military district VII, he was a descendant of a noble family Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod 26 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major
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was by the Gestapo in march of 44 but was able to flee and disappeared was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp Ludwig Gehre 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Captain
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Member of the Reichstag Ludwig Schwamb 23 January 1945 Executed (Hanging) Politician
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Member of the Landtag of Prussia Michael von matushka 14 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) None
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Was being monitored at the time on 12 August 1944 he was arrested sometime towards noon in connection with the failed plot Nikolaus Gross 23 January 1945 Executed (Hanging) Journalist
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Was arrested on 26 February 1942 by the Gestapo and suffered torture through a number of prisons and concentration camps but did not reveal any of his fellow conspirators Nikolaus von Halem 9 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
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Supposed to become the liaison officer for the military district of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband 14 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Colonel
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Military intelligence-officer, head of the counter-intelligence station in Vienna since April 1944 Otto Armster 21 September 1957 Survived Colonel
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Member of the Reichstag Otto Gerig 3 October 1944 Executed (Concentration camp) Politician
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1933, he retired from politics, in World War II, he became a member of the resistance group Otto Gessler 24 March 1955 Survived Minister of Defence
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Member of the Reichstag and the president of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Paul Löbe 3 August 1967 Survived Politician
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Commander of Officer-Candidate Training Detachment 24 based at Insterburg, East Prussia Roland von Hoblin 13 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major
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He was the military attaché in Ankara, Turkey. In 1944, he was on the staff of the 363rd Volksgrenadier Division. Rolf Friedeman Pauls 4 May 2002 Survived Major
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was sentenced to death by the Roland Freisler, who was killed in a US air raid the very next day, was to be responsible for the reorganization of air travel after the plot to assassinate the Führer Rudiger Schleicher 23 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
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Army Group Center, where he served as intelligence liaison with the Abwehr Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff 27 January 1980 Survived Major General
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Scheduled as the plotter's liaison officer in Vienna Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz 12 October 1944 Executed (Hanging) Colonel
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Member of the Reichstag Theodor Haubach 23 January 1945 Executed (Hanging) Politician
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Captain in Germany's reserve forces, working in the Wehrmacht section of the Amt Ausland/Abwehr Theodor Strunck 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Captain
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He delivered information from the conspirators in Berlin to Hans Bernd Gisevius in Zürich who was in contact with Allen Dulles, the Swiss director of the Office of Strategic Services Theodor Strunck 9 April 1945 Executed (Hanging) Lawyer
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Ambassador of Germany to Italy Ulrich von Hassell 8 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Ambassador
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Appointed him to the Abwehr office at the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht in Berlin Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld 8 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Major
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Put together a secret archive complete with reports and photographs of SS atrocities in Poland Werner Schrader 28 July 1944 Suicide Lieutenant Colonel
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Rushed to Berlin and, not knowing that Hitler had survived the explosion, attempted to launch the coup, him an 3 others were shot after midnight by a ten-man firing squad Werner von Haeften 21 July 1944 Executed (Firing squad) Lieutenant
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Baltic German colonel in the (OKW) provided the detonator charge and explosives for the assassination attempt Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven 26 July 1944 Suicide Colonel
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Member of the Reichstag, most likely to become Germany's vice-chancellor post coup Wilhelm Leuschner 29 September 1944 Executed (Hanging) Politician
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Member of the Landtag of Prussia during the Weimar Republic and member of the Reichstag Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff 15 August 1944 Executed (Hanging) Politician
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