Hitler plotter's widow dies

BERLIN - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, the widow of the man who tried to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb, has died at the age of 92.

Born as Baroness von Lerchenfeld, Nina von Stauffenberg married fellow aristocrat Count Claus von Stauffenberg in 1933.

After her husband tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944, she was arrested by the Gestapo and her four children sent to a children's home with new names. The family was not reunited until after the war.

Her husband planted a briefcase packed with explosives under the table next to Hitler at the "Wolf's Lair", Hitler's command post for the Eastern Front. He then fled, and heard the bomb explode. Hitler survived with minor injuries.

The colonel was arrested and shot on the same day. Several of his conspirators were hanged with piano wire from meat-hooks, and were filmed as they died.

- REUTERS