Early in the summer of 1944, Adolf Hitler commended the author of a military plan presented to him.
"Finally, a general staff officer with imagination and intelligence!" he said.
Germany's Fuhrer, who regarded most of his army's senior officers with contempt, was delighted to meet one who seemed to know what he was doing.
And so indeed 37-year-old Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg did.
This brilliant staff officer spent every moment of his spare time planning to kill his employer.
He had gone to a lot of trouble to secure a posting as chief of staff to Germany's Reserve Army, which gave him personal access to Hitler.
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