20 July Plot
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(Trying out a new lay out, feedback is appreciated) Executive Summary On 20 July 1944, German Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg placed a bomb in Hitler’s Eastern Front headquarters (Wolfsschanze / Wolf’s Lair) in East Prussia. The explosion injured but did not kill Hitler. The conspirators—an underground network of senior officers, diplomats, clergy, and
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On July 21, 1944, Adolf Hitler took to the airwaves to announce that the attempt on his life, code-named Operation Valkyrie, failed and “…accounts will be settled.” Hitler addressed the nation to reassure the German public of his safety and consolidate his power by framing the conspirators as a small, treacherous group acting against the
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The July 20 Plot, also known as Operation Valkyrie, represents one of the most significant assassination attempts against Adolf Hitler during World War II. This bold initiative was led by a group of senior German officers who, driven by a mix of moral indignation and practical considerations, aimed to eliminate the Führer and put an
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Many people assume there was no resistance in Germany against the Nazi regime, and to be honest, there wasn’t much. Nevertheless, some were relentless in trying to end that regime. There were dozens of assassination attempts on the life of Hitler. The most famous was the 20 July plot. Some of those involved in that
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