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...East Prussia, was able to offer much encouragement. "Do you know where the Russian Panzer armies are?" demanded Hitler, and got no answer. "Again no information from aerial reconnaissance . . .?" As the dreary conference droned on that sweltering July 20, 1944, a trim, distinguished colonel named Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg strolled into the room and, after being greeted by Hitler, casually placed his thick briefcase under the table, as close to the Fuhrer as possible. A few minutes later, the colonel was called outside to the telephone. At 12:50 p.m., his briefcase exploded...
...Years After. The most charitable explanation of John's conduct was that he was laboring under some kind of perverted patriotism or pique. In 1944 John had been a member of the famous Von Stauffenberg conspiracy to kill Hitler. When the plot failed, John's brother was shot; John himself fled to England. Many Germans regarded John as a traitor for joining the British when Germany was fighting for her life. The U.S. and West German intelligence agencies did not trust him. Largely at British insistence, he got the secret-service...
...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...
...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...