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For Von Stauffenberg, the end came rapidly. He was dragged at midnight into a Berlin courtyard and shot. Seconds before the bullets hit into him, he cried out: “Long live our sacred Germany!”

Now a new book, Count­down To Valkyrie by Nigel Jones, reveals more of the plot to kill Hitler and what became of the heroic Von Stauffenberg’s family. A controversial film version of the drama, Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, is also due out next year.

But that grim summer’s afternoon in , Countess Nina Von Stauffenberg was faced with a terrible situation – telling her children that their much-adored father was dead and why.

It took her two days to work up the courage. On July 22, Countess Nina called her two eldest sons into her study and, hands trembling, told them that their heroic father had carried out the attack on the Führer.

In a recent interview, the eldest son Berthold said: “Our world broke apart in an instant.” He was utterly devoted