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Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz was a Colonel of the Wehrmacht, member of the German Resistance in Nazi Germany and the 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia.
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Valkyrie is a 2008 thriller film directed by Bryan Singer, written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, starring Tom Cruise. The film is set in Nazi Germany during World War II and depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country. The film was released by American studio United Artists and stars Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the key plotters. The supporting cast includes Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp, and Tom Wilkinson.
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Count Franz-Ludwig Schenk von Stauffenberg is a German lawyer and politician from the CSU. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1976 to 1987 and of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1992. He is the son of World War II colonel and resistance leader Claus von Stauffenberg.
Burghart Klaußner is a German film actor. He received acting training at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel in Berlin.
Margarethe von Oven was a secretary in the Bendlerblock and an accomplice in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Game of Aces is a 2016 World War I action film written and directed by Damien Lay, in his debut in helming a fiction feature. The film stars Chris Klein, Victoria Summer and Werner Daehn whose role is as a German double-agent with all of his dialogue in German with English subtitles; Summer also speaks German for most of the film.
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