Anti-Hitler conspirator von Kleist dies at 90
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Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last surviving member of the main plot to kill Adolf Hitler has died. He was 90.
As a young German lieutenant, von Kleist was tasked with carrying a briefcase packed with explosives to a planned meeting with the Fuehrer. In a change of plans, the leader of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt, Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, placed the bomb himself, howver, Hitler survived. In the wake of the attack, von Kleist was arrested and interrogated before being unexpectedly released while most other conspirators were executed, including his own father. (AP)
