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...Everything is about simplifying, paring down, making it easier, less work," says Lillian Von Stauffenberg, a fashion insider who recently moved from New York City to London. "I only wear black and white, so I simplified my wardrobe. I'm trying to buy a Prius, because I'm obsessed with emissions. For me, it is a huge change because I've never thought that way before, and now I do. I consider the amount of garbage I produce. And all the things I buy, I ask for the least packaging possible...
Phillip G. von Stauffenberg '87 of Germany said he found it helpful to have someone to talk to about little things, "even things like how you dress up for a party...
...hope of somehow reversing Germany's military fortunes. On June 23, the Soviets launched a gigantic midsummer offensive across a 300-mile front east of Minsk and demolished 28 German divisions within a month. On July 20, Hitler's own Wehrmacht officers turned against him. Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg planted under Hitler's conference table a bomb that was supposed to kill the Führer. A shaken and partly deafened Hitler survived to wreak vengeance on the conspirators (even Rommel, who was not directly involved, was forced to take poison) and to add a manic streak...
...Churchill and in the White House with Roosevelt. Wedemeyer felt Roosevelt's demand for unconditional surrender in 1943 was a grave error, compelling Germany, which might have turned against Hitler, to fight to the bitter end. Wedemeyer's closest friend from the Kriegsakademie was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who planted the bomb that nearly killed Hitler...
...dogged thoroughness: he trails each major Nazi to the bitter end, whether it be a cyanide capsule, the scaffold or a bunker in burning Berlin. There may even be some appeal in Toland's flat American tone, which spills over into quotes translated from the German ("Come on, Stauffenberg, the Chief is waiting"). But the principal appeal of the book must rest in an enduring American fascination with the country's last honest crusade and that monomaniacal figure against whom the crusade was waged. As Hitler himself realized, the contest was a stark, Wagnerian drama, and even Toland...