King& Country’s latest “Strictly Limited” set is being released to mark the 65th. Anniversary of what might have been the most momentous day of the Second World War.
We have chosen to portray the moment when Col. Claus von Stauffenberg placed his bomb-laden briefcase close to Hitler as he studied the operational maps at his headquarters in the “Wolf’s Lair” in East Prussia on July 20, 1944.
Among the figures gathered around Hitler are General Gunther Korten , Luftwaffe chief of staff, Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel and a senior Waffen SS officer. In front of the group is large table spread over with two printed Eastern Front maps. Colonel von Stauffenberg completes this historic “SL” set.
Just 888 are being produced.
On July 20, 1944, in the midst of the fighting in France and Russia a group of brave German officers attempted to kill Hitler…