By Selwyn Duke

On a sultry July day in 1944, a man walks into the "Wolf's Lair"
carrying a briefcase. He is initiating a bold plot, one that aims to
assassinate one of the world's most ruthless and powerful men, Adolf
Hitler, and topple the whole of his Nazi government. Integral to this
ambitious coup is what lies in his briefcase, a bomb.  It is set to
detonate … the wheels are in motion. It is only a matter of time now.

The man was Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the
driving force behind what became known as the July 20 plot and the main
character in Valkyrie, the recently released movie about the
event. The film seeks to acquaint the audience with this hero and the
conspiracy of which he was part, yet it depicts the machinations better
than the man. And this is a shame, because quite a man he was.

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