Risky Business

Village Voice, The › September 02, 2009

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Several stories have Stauffenberg, himself never a member of the party, plotting to kill Hitler as early as 1942, after he'd witnessed the mass murders committed by the Nazis during the invasion of the Soviet Union; others suggest he wasn't on his way to becoming a committed coconspirator until April 1943, when, during a stint in Africa, his regiment was attacked by British bombers, whose machine guns robbed the good soldier of his left eye, his right hand, and two fingers on his left.

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Risky Business

Valkyrie

Directed by Bryan Singer

United Artists

Opens December 25

Risky Business

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission

BY ROBERT WILONSKY

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg-a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into arist...

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