Name: The Plans to Assassinate Hitler
Uploaded: 2024-07-26T02:59:18.000Z
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Adolf Hitler is giving a speech in a beer hall in Munich.

Right behind him in the column, a bomb has been hidden away.

The German carpenter and Nazi opponent Georg Elser has planned this moment for months.

He knew when exactly the Führer would give a speech.

Elser installed explosives with a time fuse.

At exactly 9.20pm his bomb is supposed to detonate.

The explosion causes the entire ceiling above the podium to collapse.

He left the beer hall earlier than expected at 9.07pm.

This was just one of many attempts to assassinate Hitler.

Today we take a look at some of the most spectacular plans to rid the world of the Nazi leader.

This is Henning von Tresckow, a first general staff officer in the Wehrmacht.

At first, he's a supporter of Hitler when he seizes power in 1933.

Tresckow's turning point comes in 1941, when Germany attacks the Soviet Union.

He thinks Hitler's invasion is military madness.

He knows about the mass murder of Jewish people.

He's convinced that this mad dictator must be stopped at all cost.

And in spring of 1943, Tresckow makes his move.

He manages to persuade his commander-in-chief Gunther von Kluge to invite Hitler to Smolensk in the Soviet Union.

On March 13, 1943, he makes a stopover in Smolensk on his flight from Vinnitsa to his headquarters in East Prussia.

At lunch, Tresckow asks Lieutenant Colonel Heinz Brandt, who is traveling with Hitler on the plane, for a favor.

Brandt is to deliver a package containing two bottles of Contreau cognac to a friend of Tresckow's in East Prussia.

Instead of two bottles of alcohol, however, the package contains a bomb with a detonator.

Tresckow wants to feign an airplane accident.

His co-conspirator Fabian von Schlabrendorf secretly activates the time pencil and then hands the package to Brandt.

On board are Hitler, Brandt, and the bomb.

The bomb is supposed to explode within an hour.

Schlabrendorf set the timer by crushing a glass vial filled with a corrosive liquid in the time pencil.

The airplane should crash at about the height of Minsk.

Hitler lands in his headquarters unscathed.

Brandt had packed the package in the cold cargo hold.

Tresckow immediately calls Heinz Brandt and tells him that he accidentally gave him the wrong package.

The next day, Schlabrendorf flies to East Prussia, exchanges the package with two bottles of cognac, and diffuses the bomb.

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Tresckow's assassination attempt failed, but he didn't get caught either.

In fact, he was part of a sworn circle of military resistance fighters determined to kill Hitler, and they were far from giving up.

A key figure in the group was Lieutenant Colonel Klauschenk Graf von Stauffenberg.

Over the years, he became the head of the military conspiracy.

Tresckow and Stauffenberg were close companions, and they were always looking for a new opportunity to eliminate the Führer.

He's an officer, almost 2 meters tall, blonde, and has blue eyes.

This appearance is supposed to provide him with the perfect opportunity to kill Hitler.

Von dem Busche and a group of other soldiers are to present the new Wehrmacht's uniform to Hitler at his headquarters.

Von dem Busche plans to use a hidden British hand grenade to blow himself up along with the dictator.

But then in Berlin, a railroad wagon is destroyed by an Allied bomb.

By then, von dem Busche isn't an option anymore.

Just one month earlier, he was seriously wounded.

Instead, Stauffenberg now wants the 21-year-old lieutenant Ewald Heinrich von Kleist to trade his life for Hitler's death.

The young lieutenant takes his time to think about it and agrees.

Von Kleist is ready to do the job and prepares.

But Hitler cancels the appointment on short notice.

On July 7th, 1944, the presentation of the new Wehrmacht uniforms finally takes place at a castle near Salzburg.

This time, Major General Helmut Stief is chosen as the assassin.

An explosion at that distance is nearly unsurvivable.

Then at the last minute, Stief hesitates and backs out.

Sure he wants to see Hitler dead, but he isn't willing to sacrifice his life for it.

But the group around Stauffenberg doesn't give up.

This time, Stauffenberg wants to do it himself.

He aims not only to kill Hitler, but also to bring down the entire Nazi regime in one coordinated strike.