Philipp von Boeselager has not had a proper night's sleep for 60 years, not since the day his brother Georg sent him a coded message saying: "All back to the holes. " It meant, quite simply, that an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler had failed.Boeselager, as a member of the team involved in the now legendary Stauffenberg plot of July 20, 1944, had to flee.He had two roles. He was the man who provided a suitcase full of English-made explosives for the bombs. He also commanded 1,000 men whose role was to round up senior Nazis in the German capital. Instead, the 25-year-old fled eastwards out of Berlin, forced to abandon the plan when Hitler survived.These are the hours that still haunt the dreams of the 86-year-old - the last of the estimated 200 plotters to survive."My dreams are stressful affairs in which I have conversations with my former friends and plotters, in which we discuss how to get rid of Hitler or in which I think, should I have shot him when I met him?" he said at a friend's home in Munster.Six decades on, the noble but failed attempt by Count Claus von Stauffenberg and his fellow collaborators to assassinate Hitler still resonates in the popular memory. Tomorrow's anniversary is being marked by a series of ceremonies, television documentaries, book publications and reunions of plotters' families, who are now spread around the world.

Feature films have reconstructed the events surrounding the moment when Stauffenberg, a colonel in the German army and fierce opponent of Hitler, planted a bomb in a suitcase under a table in Hitler's Wolf's Lair in what is now Poland. The bomb exploded, but Hitler escaped with little more than a burst eardrum.Stauffenberg and about 5,000 other people - only a tiny fraction of whom were involved in the plot - were executed in the following days.It was not until the 1950s that Germany first commemorated the event but the process accelerated and 300 streets across the country are now named after Stauffenberg.

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