Nina von Stauffenberg

Magdalena Elisabeth Vera Lydia Herta von Lerchenfeld

Valkyrie

Valkyrie (2008)

Being a mother, wife and conspirator against Adolph Hitler

Officer's Wife

Nazi Germany

Nina Schenk Grafin von Stauffenberg was the wife of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an officer in the German army and a key player in the internal conspiracy to assassinate Hitler during World War II. Nina was a loving wife and mother of four, well aware and supportive of her husband's involvement in the plot to kill the Fuhrer. After "Operation Valkyrie" fails, Claus is executed and Nina is arrested by the Gestapo, accused of being a co-conspirator, with the four von Stauffenberg children sent to an orphanage under the false name of "Meister." Nina gave birth to her fifth child while being held prisoner at a Nazi maternity center and was reunited at the end of the war with her family. She lived to tell her husband's tale - and to be 92 years old.