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| | Guardian | Carl Szokoll |
 | | Colonel Claus Count von Stauffenberg, who was on the staff of the German reserve army, led the coup attempt, carrying the bomb intended to kill Hitler in his briefcase into the war room in the Führer's headquarters at Rastenburg, east Prussia - the "Wolf's Lair". |
 | | The conspirators, mainly from the German upper class and officer-corps, planned to hijack Operation Valkyrie - the Wehrmacht plan for dealing with civil insurrection - for their own purposes, enabling them openly to deploy troops as if to restore order. |
 | | His colonel issued the order to implement Valkyrie in Vienna, not knowing he was acting on orders from the plotters in Berlin. |
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