claus von stauffenberg execution

A smiling Claus von Stauffenberg with fellow conspirator Albrecht Mertz von

Execution of women by the Nazis

Stars in "Valkyrie", a new feature film about Claus Von Stauffenberg

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim



Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.  ~Don Marquis



Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane



Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland



In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg's office within, and the memorial

We toured the museum dedicated to Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg and

There have had been other planned attempts on the Nazi leader's life too.

On 20th July 1944, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb in the

Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.  ~Author Unknown



A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.  ~Author Unknown



Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown



Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and others were shot right here.

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg/Tom Cruise in Bryan Singer's Valkyrie

In fact, he looks like the man he plays, Claus von Stauffenberg,

Col Claus Von Stauffenberg: of the execution of Col.

Claus von Staufenberg

You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown



Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.  ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990



Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown



Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw



The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~Lucille Ball

It is true what Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg said as he was about to face

Stauffenberg's execution site.

17. Execution courtyard

Enter Tom Cruise, otherwise known as Count Claus von Stauffenberg,

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836



Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter



Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year:  The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.  ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson

The arms of Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Count von Stauffenberg,

Claus von Staufenberg

Stefan George, Claus and Berthold von Stauffenberg in 1924, one year after

Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw



In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown



A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  ~Enid Bagnold