20 Anniversary of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944

Stamp block for 20 Anniversary of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944

DEM DEUTSCHEN WIDERSTAND ZUM JAHRESTAG DES 20, JULI 1944/1964

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and revolutionary, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

Generaloberst Ludwig August Theodor Beck was a German general and Chief of the German General Staff during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi and founding member of the Confessing Church.

Alfred Delp was a German Jesuit priest who was executed for his resistance to the Nazi régime in Germany.

Karl Friedrich Goerdeler was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant, and opponent of the Nazi regime

Wilhelm Leuschner was a social-democratic politician who opposed the Third Reich. Wilhelm Leuschner, a stove fitter's son, was born in 1890. His father's name was also Wilhelm Leuschner, and his mother's name was Marie. Leuschner grew up in poverty.

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, was a German army officer.

On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The apparent purpose of the assassination attempt was to seize political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi Party (including the SS) in order to obtain peace as soon as possible. The underlying desire of many of the involved high ranking Wehrmacht officers was apparently to show to the world that all Germans were not like Hitler and the NSDAP. However, no details of intended peace initiatives to be proposed by the conspirators have been identified