Last Updated: 12:01am BST 17/08/2008
On 20 July 1944, a German colonel left a bomb in the Führer's office. It exploded, just missing its target, and the following day the officer was shot. With the daring plot now being made into a film - starring Tom Cruise - Berthold von Stauffenberg, son of the would-be assassin, tells Nigel Jones how his father's 'moral sacrifice' shattered his and his family's lives
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/08/17/sv_hitler.xml
An 'overpowering personality': Claus von Stauffenberg, left and Tom Cruise, who plays him in 'Valkyrie'
On 20 July 1944, a German colonel left a bomb in the Führer's office. It exploded, just missing its target, and the following day the officer was shot. With the daring plot now being made into a film - starring Tom Cruise - Berthold von Stauffenberg, son of the would-be assassin, tells Nigel Jones how his father's 'moral sacrifice' shattered his and his family's lives
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/08/17/sv_hitler.xml
An 'overpowering personality': Claus von Stauffenberg, left and Tom Cruise, who plays him in 'Valkyrie'