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He was executed by a firing squad, the day after the attempt on Hitler's life. July 21 1944 The worst part is about nine months later the allies stepped in. Stauffenberg married Nina Freiin von Lerchenfeld on 26 September, 1933 in Bamberg. They had five children: Berthold, Heimeran, Franz-Ludwig, Valerie, and Konstanze, who was born in Frankfurt on the Oder after Stauffenberg's execution. Berthold, Heimeran, Franz-Ludwig and Valerie, who were not told of their father's deed,[23] were placed in foster home for the remainder of the war and were forced to use new surnames, as Stauffenberg was now considered taboo. Nina died aged 92 on 2 April, 2006 at Kirchlauter near Bamberg, and was buried there on 8 April. Berthold went on to become a general in West Germany's post-war Bundeswehr, and Franz-Ludwig became a member of both the German and European parliaments. In 2008, Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg wrote a best-selling book about her mother, Nina Schenk Graefin von Stauffenberg. Describing her late husband, Nina von Stauffenberg said: He let things come to him, and then he made up his mind ... one of his characteristics was that he really enjoyed playing the devil's advocate. Conservatives were convinced that he was a ferocious Nazi, and ferocious Nazis were convinced he was an unreconstructed conservative. He was neither.[24]

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