On 20 July 1944, a bomb ripped through a meeting room in Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair.
This episode tells how Operation Valkyrie *almost* managed to kill Adolf Hitler, and the vicious crackdown that came afterwards.
- The Wolf’s Lair meeting on 20 July 1944
- Claus von Stauffenberg’s injuries and role in the plot
- Setting one bomb; briefcase placed near Hitler
- Explosion at Wolf’s Lair; Hitler survives due to briefcase moved
- Operation Valkyrie: reserve army plan blaming SS
- A mixed group’s reasons to remove Hitler
- Coup starts; Goebbels phones Hitler; Remer switches sides
- Bendlerblock firefight, arrests, executions of plotters
- Brutal crackdown: show trials, thousands arrested, many executed
- Haunting “what if”: ways the plot almost succeeded
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