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  2. www.bbc.com › news › magazine-28330605The German officer who tried to kill Hitler - BBC News

    Jul 19, 2014 · On 20 July 1944, a 36-year-old German army officer, Col Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, arrived at a heavily guarded complex hidden in a forest in East Prussia. His mission was to kill...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Claus_von_StauffenbergClaus von Stauffenberg - Wikipedia

    Stauffenberg, left, with Hitler (centre) and Wilhelm Keitel, right, in an aborted assassination attempt at Rastenburg on 15 July 1944. As early as September 1942, Stauffenberg was considering Hans Georg Schmidt von Altenstadt, author of Unser Weg zum Meer, as a replacement for Hitler.

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 20_July_plot20 July plot - Wikipedia

    [1] [2] The leader of the conspiracy, Claus von Stauffenberg, tried to kill Hitler by detonating an explosive hidden in a briefcase. However, due to the location of the bomb at the time of detonation, the blast only dealt Hitler minor injuries.

  6. www.historynet.com › claus-von-stauffenberg-theClaus von Stauffenberg: The Man Who Tried to Kill Hitler

    Jul 20, 2022 · Nauseated by the mass murder of Jews and the treatment of civilian populations on the eastern front, and by Hitler’s insatiable appetite for war and his reckless military incompetence, Stauffenberg joined fellow officers in actively conspiring against Nazi rule.

  7. encyclopedia.ushmm.org › content › enThe July 20, 1944, Plot to Assassinate Adolf Hitler

    Jul 16, 2021 · General Olricht, Colonel von Stauffenberg, and two other conspirators were captured at the Bendlerblock, site of many offices of the Supreme High Command of the German Army, tried by an impromptu court martial, and executed by firing squad in the courtyard.

  8. www.britannica.com › event › July-PlotJuly Plot | History, Leaders, Executions, & Facts | Britannica

    Jul 20, 1998 · Stauffenberg slipped from the room, witnessed the explosion at 12:42 pm, and, convinced that Hitler had been killed, flew to Berlin to join the other plotters, who were to have seized the Supreme Command Headquarters there. Bad luck and indecisiveness thwarted the plans.

  9. encyclopedia.ushmm.org › content › enAttempt to Assassinate Hitler | Holocaust Encyclopedia

    Sep 20, 2013 · German military officers attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his East Prussian headquarters at Rastenburg. Colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg left a bomb in a briefcase near Hitler during a military briefing on the deteriorating military situation on the eastern front.