Stieff was born on 6 June 1901 in German Eylau.

He became 1938 members of the armed forces and 1942 in the defense, a boss of the group of organizations, in which he could unfold its organizational talent. As a youngest and physically smallest general Hitler is to have called a small poisonous dwarf him. By Henning interested of Tresckow in the resistance, he wanted to participate at first personally in an assassination attempt. Later he withdrew the readiness opposite Stauffenberg.

Stieff was participant 20 of July 1944. As Christian intellectual regarded it the rescue of Hitler as God judgement. It arrested at the night of 20. abused on 21 July 1944 in in such a way specified wolf-dig and brutally, in order to press names out of it. It withstood these tortures. On 8 August followed the judgement of the people's court in such a way specified, which was executed on the same day in

Over its stay in Warsaw it writes on 21 November 1939:

"„It is a city and a population, which are geweiht the fall. It is so cruel that one is not glad an instant of its life, if one stays in this city. "… The war in this effect is something terrible, and also the last war did not entail such effects. "… One moves there not as a winner, but as debt-conscious. I am not alone in such a way - the gentlemen, who must live there, feel the same. In addition comes still all the unbelievable, which happens there at the edge, and where we must watch with arms! The most flowering fantasy of an atrocity propaganda is poor against the things, which commits a crime an organized murderer, robber and a under allegedly highest tolerance there"… this extermination of whole sexes with women and children is only from a Untermenschentum possible, which does not earn the name German any longer. I am ashamed to be, a German. "“

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