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Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who set off the bomb that nearly killed Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, was one of the most spectacularly odd figures to flash across the world stage.
George thought the Empire lingered in modern times as a "secret Germany"; the Stauffenberg brothers providentially appeared as a band of boy princes who could take command.
More problematically, Hoffmann presents Stauffenberg as one of the few Germans who came to the defense of the Jews.
The ambiguity of Stauffenberg's attitude toward Jews can be sensed in this inscrutable sentence from a resistance manifesto: "We want a New Order which makes all Germans supporters of the state and guarantees them law and justice, but we scorn the lie of equality and we bow before the hierarchies established by nature."
The Countess Stauffenberg moved in various artistic circles, befriending Rainer Maria Rilke, among others; it was through her connections that her sons met the poet Stefan George.