An "oath" written by Stauffenberg as a statement to future generations, in the event of his death:

We believe in the future of the Germans.

We know that the German has powers which designate him to lead the community of the occidental nations towards a more beautiful life.

We acknowledge in spirit and in deed the great traditions of our nation which, through the amalgamation of Hellenic and Christian origins in the Germanic character, created western man.

We want a New Order which makes all Germans supporters of the state and guarantees them law and justice, but we scorn the lie of equality and we bow before the hierarchies established by nature.

We want a nation which will remain rooted in the soil of the homeland close to the powers of nature, which will find its happiness and its satisfaction in its given surroundings and, free and proud, will overcome the low passions of envy and jealous resentment.

We want leaders who, coming from all classes of the nation, in harmony with the divine powers, high-minded, lead others high-mindedly, with discipline and sacrifice.

We unite in an inseparable community which through its bearing and actions serves the New Order and forms for the leaders of the future the fighters whom they will need.

We pledge to live blamelessly, to serve in obedience, to keep silent unswervingly, and to stand for each other.

Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944By Peter HoffmannPages 293-294