German royal family lawsuit could backfire and reveal nobles‘ support for Nazis – While the aristocracy is often lauded for the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler, evidence in a compensation claim sought by the Hohenzollern house may expose a closet full of skeletons | Timesofisrael

LONDON — No moment in the story of the German resistance to Nazism has received greater attention — or been more mythologized — than the 1944 “July Plot” when Count Claus von Stauffenberg’s bomb came close to assassinating Adolf Hitler. The plotters, former German chancellor Helmut Kohl proclaimed in 1994, were “the most noble and greatest” individuals “that have ever been produced in the history of mankind.”