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On July 20, 1944, Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him.
High-ranking German officials had made up their minds that Hitler must die. He was leading Germany in a suicidal war on two fronts, and assassination was the only way to stop him. A coup d’etat would follow, and a new government in Berlin would save Germany from complete destruction at the hands of the Allies.
That was the plan. This was the reality: Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, chief of the army reserve, had been given the task of planting a bomb during a conference that was to be held at Berchtesgaden, but was later moved to Hitler’s “Wolf’s Lair, a command post at Rastenburg, Prussia. Stauffenberg planted the explosive in a briefcase, which he placed under a table, then left quickly. Hitler was studying a map of the Eastern front as Colonel Heinz Brandt, trying to get a better look at the map, moved the briefcase out of place, farther away from where the Fuhrer was standing.
On July 20, 1944, Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him.
High-ranking German officials had made up their minds that Hitler must die. He was leading Germany in a suicidal war on two fronts, and assassination was the only way to stop him. A coup d’etat would follow, and a new government in Berlin would save Germany from complete destruction at the hands of the Allies.
That was the plan. This was the reality: Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, chief of the army reserve, had been given the task of planting a bomb during a conference that was to be held at Berchtesgaden, but was later moved to Hitler’s “Wolf’s Lair, a command post at Rastenburg, Prussia. Stauffenberg planted the explosive in a briefcase, which he placed under a table, then left quickly. Hitler was studying a map of the Eastern front as Colonel Heinz Brandt, trying to get a better look at the map, moved the briefcase out of place, farther away from where the Fuhrer was standing.
Assassination plot against Hitler fails
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I met von Stauffenberg's son in Heidelberg. He was a colonel in the German Army and assigned to Central Army Group HQ. He retired as a major general.
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It's sounds grim... but the way I see it, the only sound strategy the conspirators could've followed would've been based on placing someone in very close proximity (i.e., Stauffenberg) who would then detonate a shrapnel-creating incendiary point blank... accepting their own life being sacrificed in the effort. I think like anyone, the colonel was hoping to not only succeed... but survive.
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Myth busters did a show on it. Just not enough explosive was used. As anal as MI-6 were, they didn’t replicate the room.
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