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What would happen to the world if Hitler was killed in 39 years? November 12, 1939: George Ersser attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
The West has studied that Hitler suffered 60 assassinations in his lifetime, of which more than 20 had been carried out, and the rest were premeditated and not carried out for various reasons.
One of Hitler's earliest assassinations took place in 1921.
At that time, Hitler was still creating the Nazi Party and did not have a big reputation.
Even so, his ultra-nationalist and anti-Semitic rhetoric has provoked the anger of many.
During the public speech, an angry audience fired a shot at Hitler on the stage.
As he raised his gun, the rest of the crowd around him hurriedly stopped him, causing the bullets to fly, and Hitler was lucky.
This was Hitler's first assassination.
Over the next 20 years, Hitler was assassinated more than 20 times, several times very dangerous, but he was always fine.
For this reason, Hitler had a certain belief that he was God's chosen man to turn the whole world into National Socialism. No one can kill Hitler until this goal is achieved.
Today, we talk about an experience in which Hitler was nearly killed.
In September 1939, the Germans invaded Poland, and the European theater of World War II was full-fledged.
It seems that war is no longer inevitable.
At such times, some anti-Nazis decided to go ahead and wipe out this demon once and for all.
Among them was George Georg Airser.
Elser was a German who was born in 1903 at the age of 36.
When World War I broke out, Elsai was a teenager, but he also suffered the pain of war. He witnessed the death or injury of countless relatives or fell into great grief, and also experienced the tragic situation of Germany for a decade after the defeat of the war.
Elsai was a very intelligent man, but he was not born at the right time. At that time, Germany was in war, and his family was in a difficult situation, unable to study with peace of mind, resulting in a low level of education.
As an adult, he became a carpenter with a high level of skill and local fame. At the same time, he also has a great interest in chemistry and mechanics, and has learned a high level of self-learning.
Witnessing the possibility of World War II breaking out at any moment, Else believes that everything is over. He was sensitive to the fact that Germany at this time was completely indistinguishable from Germany before the outbreak of the war. As a teenager, Else has experienced terrible wars and would rather die than come back again.
Elser was a taciturn man who believed that it was better to say ten thousand words than to do one thing.
So he made a decision: Germans, especially those who had experienced the First World War, must not be allowed to suffer the same for the second time.
The best way, then, is to kill Hitler. Elsay often heard that if someone had killed Kaiser Wilhelm II at the outbreak of the First World War, Germany would not have fallen into the terrible situation that followed.
So Elsai began to prepare. He was working in a quarry and managed to steal more than 100 kilograms of explosives, as well as detonators.
However, Elsee did not find a reliable method of detonation and began to study the timing detonator.
He was a master mechanical man and spent several months designing the detonator. After all, Elsai is not a professional, however, and the timer can only last for 24 hours. Once this time is exceeded, the timer will not operate accurately and there will be a large error.
After everything was ready, Elser left his hometown with the bomb and came to Munich.
Every year Hitler came to the Berg brasserie in Munich to commemorate the beer hall coup of that year.
It is generally believed that the beer hall coup d'état allowed the Nazi Party and Hitler to truly enter the German political arena for the first time.
This was the number one congress of the Nazi Party, and it would be carried out without moving.
Hitler, on the other hand, would certainly give a public speech at a beer hall around 9 p.m., lasting at least 30 minutes.
Most importantly, the beer hall is not a government agency, anyone can enter and exit in peacetime, and there is no military police standing guard, which is more suitable for Elsai to place bombs.
After arriving in Munich, Elser went to the beer hall to observe the situation and was pleased to find that carpenters were being recruited for repairs and decorations, preparing for the congress in three months.
Else immediately applied for the job and was quickly accepted.
His carpentry skills were skilled, his resume was very innocent, he was an ordinary German carpenter, there was nothing suspicious about it.
After going to work, Elsai took a closer look at the situation in the beer hall.
He found himself repairing a wooden pillar just a few meters behind the podium. If you plant a bomb here, you will definitely kill the speaker.
Immediately, Elsai began to prepare.
To Elsay's surprise, the Polish Campaign broke out in less than a month, with Britain and France declaring war on Germany.
Elser was anxious, believing that war had already broken out and that it would be too late to kill Hitler.
Despite his anxiety, Elsé maintained the patience characteristic of a German.
He spent 30 days, cleverly avoiding the gaze of others, and chiseled a large hole in the wooden pillar.
When everything was ready, Elsai brought the bomb into the beer hall many days in advance, hiding it inside a wooden pillar.
The night before Hitler's speech, German military police began entering beer halls and sealing off the place.
Elsai, a carpenter in a beer hall, was granted a pass, after all, there was still some carpentry to do before the convention began.
At 9:20 p.m., Elser activated the timing device.
Twenty-four hours later, at about 9:20 p.m. the next day, the bomb exploded.
According to tradition, Hitler would speak until 9:30 and would be killed.
It can be said that this assassination should be successful.
Hitler's guards cordoned off the venue and strictly inspected and searched those who had passes, but found nothing. Elsai had already hidden the bomb in its intended location, escaping a tight search.
At the same time, the guards also inspected everything suspicious in the beer hall, but did not find the bomb hidden inside the wooden pillar.
Early the next morning, Elser left Munich on an early bus to try to take refuge in Switzerland.
This plan was perfect, but it was really not as good as heaven.
On the day of the speech, the weather in Munich was quite harsh, with heavy rain and winds.
Late that night, Hitler was also in Berlin for a very important military conference.
Hitler was going to fly to Berlin after his speech in Munich and catch the meeting at around 12 o'clock in the evening.
The weather that night was so bad that the plane could not take off at all, and Hitler had to decide to take the train instead.
Trains are slower, and Munich is more than 500 km from Berlin.
At that time, the speed of the train was slower, and even Hitler's special train could not exceed 80 kilometers per hour, which was expected to take more than 6 hours.
In order to attend the meeting as soon as possible, Hitler decided to start the speech half an hour earlier and then leave before the congress was over.
At 8:40 p.m. on November 12, Hitler delivered an early speech.
At about 9:12, Hitler finished his speech and left the venue with his men.
Hitler had just left for 7 minutes when a bomb behind the podium exploded violently.
Wooden pillars were blown off on the spot, the podium was blown to pieces, 8 people were killed on the spot, 63 people were injured to varying degrees, but Hitler was unharmed. Upon learning of this news, Hitler at the train station immediately ordered the capture of the Assassins.
The owner of the beer hall is not a fool and thinks that Elsai, who repairs the wooden pillars, is a major suspect.
The Nazi security services were very efficient and immediately issued a wanted list to customs.
Here, Elsai is also quite unlucky. 35 minutes before the explosion, he tried to enter Switzerland through customs. Not a professional killer after all, Elsai was quite nervous when he crossed customs, arousing the suspicion of the border police. They searched Elsai and found fuses and design drawings of suspected bombs. They thought Elsai might be a foreign spy and held him in temporary custody.
A few hours later, The Assassin's identity was confirmed and handed over to German security.
Elser was arrested in 1939 and was not executed until April 1945, a month before Germany surrendered.
Why did he live so long?
The main Elser claimed to be a lone ranger, not an assassin sent by any enemy state, and he himself decided to assassinate Hitler.
Naturally, Hitler was completely unconvinced that "only a fool would believe such an absurd statement." He thinks that Else is just a carpenter, and he does not have the ability to make a time bomb, nor does he have the ability to sneak into the beer hall to prepare for more than a month.
Hitler suspected that Ersser was an agent sent by Britain, France or the Soviet Union, but more likely a subordinate of some opponents within the Nazi Party in Germany. These traitors, who came to power after attempting to assassinate Hitler, were worse enemies than anglo-American law.
After his arrest, Elsay suffered a lot of torture, and Germany later went to war with both Britain, France and the Soviet Union.
Since Britain, France, and the Soviet Union were openly at war with Germany, there was no need for Elsay to hide which country he had sent. He could have confessed in exchange for a quick death without being tortured to extract a confession.
Hitler believed that the black hand of the mastermind Elser might be at his side. Therefore, Hitler ordered that Elser should not be shot until the main messenger behind the scenes was found. After all, Else is just an assassin, a small character, and killing or not killing has nothing to do with the overall situation. Unfortunately, even If Himmler himself went out on the horse, he did not know who the main messenger behind Elsai was.
Therefore, Elsai miraculously lived in prison for more than 5 years, and he was not tortured again.
If Elser had not gone to assassinate, but joined the Wehrmacht, he would have died on the battlefield in 1945.
Interestingly, the Assassination of Elsay raises the famous historical question of what would world history do if Hitler had died just after the Polish campaign had begun?
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