A Group of German Leaders Tried to Kill Hitler in 1944. Here’s Why They Failed
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler and senior Nazi military officers met at the Wolf’s Lair in Rastenburg, Eastern Prussia. As the Nazi military leaders took their seats to discuss troop movements on the Eastern Front, an explosion ripped through the humid conference room — and, through the thick black smoke, Hitler’s body was seen strewn across the table. The Führer was dead, and Europe was potentially freed from the Nazi scourge. Or so it initially seemed. For a brief moment in history, Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators thought ...
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