Oscar-winning director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, left, has come out in support of Tom Cruise playing would-be Hitler assassin Col. Claus von Stauffenberg in Bryan Singer's "Valkyrie." (Getty ...

After months of debate and controversy, United Artists' "Valkyrie," which stars Tom Cruise as would-be Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, has been granted permission to shoot at a key ...

July, 1944. As WWII raged on, a group of conspirators, led by Claus von Stauffenberg, plotted to assassinate Hitler and end his reign of terror. Watch history unfold ...

Tom Cruise said Tuesday he felt a huge burden of responsibility to history in bringing the story of one of Germany's few anti-Nazi heroes to the screen. In "Valkyrie," Cruise plays Col. Claus Graf ...

Germany’s Underground (207 pp.)—Allen Welsh Dulles—Macmillan ($3). Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg had fought with Rommel in Africa, lost his left arm and two fingers of his right hand there. But ...

After all the Sturm und Drang that has accompanied the production and release of “Valkyrie,” a Tom Cruise vehicle depicting the most famous of the failed plots to assassinate Hitler, it seems rather ...

Alexander and his twin Berthold were the older brothers of Colonel Claus Count von Stauffenberg, who on July 20, 1944, planted a bomb meant to kill Hitler in the well-known but failed Valkyrie coup ...

The German government may loathe Scientology, but it also loathes transatlantic tension. Berlin appears now to be moving to defuse the row caused by the German Defense Ministry denying access to a ...

He was a shining light in the German resistance movement and the bomb he placed at Hitler's headquarters could have put an end to war and genocide. Yet like most German army officers, Claus Schenk, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Eighty-one years ago today, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ...