- Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager was born on September 6, 1917 in Burg Heimerzheim, Germany. He was married to Rosa Maria Graefin von Westphalen zu Fuerstenberg. He died on May 1, 2008 in Burg Kreuzberg, Altenahr, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- SpouseRosa Maria Graefin von Westphalen zu Fuerstenberg(1948 - ?) (4 children)
- German military officer. Beleived to be the last surviving member of a group that carried out an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944.
- Thought to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb.
- After the war, he studied law and economics. He frequently spoke at schools about German resistance to the Third Reich.
- He carried a cyanide capsule for the duration of WWII, in case his role in the plot was revealed.
- Had the 1944 plot succeeded in killing Hitler, von Boeselager was to have led 1,200 men to Berlin for an uprising against the Nazi regime. The uprising was code-named "Operation Valkyrie".
- [from his last interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, three weeks before his death] Even now, everything concerning July 20, 1944 still feels not remote to me at all. But I generally don't talk about it. I later told my wife about the Resistance, because it was over, just like the war. But there also wasn't anybody else who one could talk to, all of them were dead, and talking about it with anybody who hadn't been involved would have been showing off.
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