Word: stauffenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some years a Prussian civil servant, later vice consul in Zurich, Author Gisevius claims to have been a member of an eager, unstable and heterogeneous group which schemed against Hitler from the Reichstag fire (1933) down through World War II. He regards Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg (the man who nearly killed Hitler on July 20, 1944) as a Johnny-come-lately with half-Nazi ideas of his own. It was Stauffenberg who lugged a bomb-laden briefcase into field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler...
Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg had fought with Rommel in Africa, lost his left arm and two fingers of his right hand there. But he could still do staff work. Above all, he could still carry a briefcase. On July 20, 1944, he carried a briefcase into a conference at the Führer's field headquarters in East Prussia. He put it down close to the Führer-with a powerful little bomb inside...
...Stauffenberg, the man chosen to do the dirty work, had tried at least twice before to kill Hitler. Other plotters had also tried. In March 1943, one almost succeeded by wrapping up a bomb and planting it in Hitler's airplane. The plane took off with Hitler aboard, but arrived at its destination safely. Reason: the bomb's firing pin had tripped, but the percussion...
...telltale clockwork but by the action of acid on a taut wire). Also as planned, Hitler was in the room. At the moment of the explosion he was leaning on the map table under which the bomb had been planted. A few seconds before, however, someone had slightly shifted Stauffenberg's briefcase, so that, instead of lying practically at Hitler's feet, it lay behind a table leg. The day, moreover, was hot, and the open conference-room windows dissipated the force of the explosion. Even so, four of the 24 men at the conference were killed...
...Stauffenberg's bomb was no time bomb, but it dinned into Adolf Hitler's ears what time it was on history's relentless clock. The Junker felt that opportunism, the chief bond between them and Naziism now bound them to depose Hitler. For the time being Hitler restored the bond by a number of judicious hangings...