Post by Rob Caprio on Jan 31, 2019 21:27:26 GMT -5
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On July 20, 1944, the Fuehrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler, was a victim of an assassination attempt at his Eastern Front HQ - Wolfschanze (Wolf's Lair) - in Rastenburg, East Prussia. A bomb was left under the table during the mid-day war conference, but he would survive the attempt with only minor damage to his ears and right arm. He called it "Providence" looking out for him.
In fact it was just bad luck as usually they held the conference in a concrete bunker, but due to the heat they moved it to a hut with many open windows. The man who left the bomb, Colonel Count Claus Von Stauffenberg, will decide to use TNT which would have been devastating in a closed in bunker, but loses too much force in a wooden hut with many open windows and a weak roof. For this environment either nitro glycerin, a hand grenade or plastic explosives (what we call C4 now) would have been much better, but he did not know they would switch locations. Some wonder why he simply did not just shoot him up close, but I think he wanted to live and get away.
Von Stauffenberg represented a large group of dissaffected politicians and military leaders who had become disenchanted with Adolf Hitler's war and policies. This was by no means the first attempt on Hitler, as the first attempt dated back to 1938 when a group of Generals planned on removing him due to his war aims, but unfortunately for them, the Allies caved in at Munich and ceded away the Sudetenland (a part of Czechoslovakia that had 1.5 million Germans) to Germany. After this they dare not move against him.
Other attempts would come and go with no result, but this was the closest the conspirators would come to success. Many big names would be linked to the crime (some real and some not so real in terms of actual guilt as the Nazis used this as an excuse to kill off many political enemies) such as Generals Fromm, Beck, Rommel, Von Kluge and Admiral Canaris (Intelligence – he wouldn't die until shortly before Hitler did). Many more would be charged and shuffled to the "Peoples' Court" where they were quickly ruled to be guilty. Erwin Rommel of course was given the opportunity to commit suicide to protect his family and he did do this as did Gunther Von Kluge (panzer leader in all early victories).
Many of the old enemies of Hitler would be hung by meat hooks or tortured in barbaric ways with it filmed so Hitler could watch it later after his dinner.
Did Von Stauffenberg represent himself or many others? I guess the WC endorsers would say he was a "lone nut", but this is not the case. They planned on a takeover of the government in Berlin when news came of Hitler's death, but for many crucial hours they did not know for sure if he was dead or not. A similar thing was the telephone lines going down immediately after the attempt and this would happen in Washington D.C. after President John F. Kennedy (JFK) assassination as well. In any case, this is a good example of how one man does not plan alone for the overthrow of a leader of a country.
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On July 20, 1944, the Fuehrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler, was a victim of an assassination attempt at his Eastern Front HQ - Wolfschanze (Wolf's Lair) - in Rastenburg, East Prussia. A bomb was left under the table during the mid-day war conference, but he would survive the attempt with only minor damage to his ears and right arm. He called it "Providence" looking out for him.
In fact it was just bad luck as usually they held the conference in a concrete bunker, but due to the heat they moved it to a hut with many open windows. The man who left the bomb, Colonel Count Claus Von Stauffenberg, will decide to use TNT which would have been devastating in a closed in bunker, but loses too much force in a wooden hut with many open windows and a weak roof. For this environment either nitro glycerin, a hand grenade or plastic explosives (what we call C4 now) would have been much better, but he did not know they would switch locations. Some wonder why he simply did not just shoot him up close, but I think he wanted to live and get away.
Von Stauffenberg represented a large group of dissaffected politicians and military leaders who had become disenchanted with Adolf Hitler's war and policies. This was by no means the first attempt on Hitler, as the first attempt dated back to 1938 when a group of Generals planned on removing him due to his war aims, but unfortunately for them, the Allies caved in at Munich and ceded away the Sudetenland (a part of Czechoslovakia that had 1.5 million Germans) to Germany. After this they dare not move against him.
Other attempts would come and go with no result, but this was the closest the conspirators would come to success. Many big names would be linked to the crime (some real and some not so real in terms of actual guilt as the Nazis used this as an excuse to kill off many political enemies) such as Generals Fromm, Beck, Rommel, Von Kluge and Admiral Canaris (Intelligence – he wouldn't die until shortly before Hitler did). Many more would be charged and shuffled to the "Peoples' Court" where they were quickly ruled to be guilty. Erwin Rommel of course was given the opportunity to commit suicide to protect his family and he did do this as did Gunther Von Kluge (panzer leader in all early victories).
Many of the old enemies of Hitler would be hung by meat hooks or tortured in barbaric ways with it filmed so Hitler could watch it later after his dinner.
Did Von Stauffenberg represent himself or many others? I guess the WC endorsers would say he was a "lone nut", but this is not the case. They planned on a takeover of the government in Berlin when news came of Hitler's death, but for many crucial hours they did not know for sure if he was dead or not. A similar thing was the telephone lines going down immediately after the attempt and this would happen in Washington D.C. after President John F. Kennedy (JFK) assassination as well. In any case, this is a good example of how one man does not plan alone for the overthrow of a leader of a country.