Hitler, as the leader of the German fascists, was naturally hated by countless people, and the assassination against him would not be less, but there was an assassination operation against him, which came from within the German army, and it was also the closest to success and the most famous, and even many years later, this operation was put on the big screen by Hollywood. This is the 720 incident, also known as "Valkyrie Operation".
A Hollywood blockbuster based on the 720s
In the summer of 1944, first the Soviet army liberated Warsaw, followed by the Allied landings in Normandy, seeing that Nazi Germany was in danger, some Wehrmacht officers did not want Germany to accompany Hitler to the funeral, so they began to assassinate Hitler and thus make a separate peace with the United States and Britain.
After a series of careful planning, the assassination team drew up a plan for Hitler to hold an important meeting at the Wolf's Den, and Colonel Stauffenberg was favored by Hitler, who was favored by Hitler and could enter and exit the Wolf's Lair. He carried a time bomb in a briefcase and placed it in the bunker where Hitler was meeting, and detonated it when the meeting was held, and the operation was code-named "Valkyrie".
Famous movie star Tom Clancy's Stauffenberg
However, this plan took into account too few other factors, on the day of July 20, Colonel Stauffenberg arrived at the Wolf's Den and began to assemble bombs in his office, because he had blinded one eye and one hand had been blown off two fingers in the previous battle, so that Stauffenberg had a relatively slow pace of installing bombs, but then Hitler suddenly advanced the meeting time from 1:00 noon to 12:30, which made Stauffenberg not have enough time to install both bombs, only one in a hurry. Take it in a briefcase to the meeting place.
A second unexpected coincidence ensued, and Hitler felt that the bunker was too hot, so he changed the meeting place to an airy wooden house on the ground. Eventually, Stauffenberg placed the briefcase containing the explosives on the leg of the middle of the conference bench and left. Because according to the custom, Hitler would stand in the middle of the long table, although there was only one bomb, but if it exploded under his feet, Hitler would still die.
Hitler's Command Post - The Site of the Wolf's Lair
With a loud bang, the conference room was blown up, and Stauffenberg saw that the ceiling of the conference room was lifted into the sky, and believing that Hitler was dead, he took advantage of the chaos to escape from the wolf's den, go straight to the airport, and return to Berlin.
When Stauffenberg returned to Berlin, however, he heard a speech by Hitler claiming that he had survived a murder against him. What's going on? It turned out that during the meeting, a German general frequently rushed forward in order to see the battle map on the table, and in the process he found that Stauffenberg's briefcase was very obstructive, so he picked it up and put it on the opposite side of the table. Although the explosion killed four people on the spot and seriously injured three others, the heavy table gave Hitler most of the impact and fragmentation of the explosion, leaving him with only minor thigh injuries and brief deafness.
Hitler quickly regained control of the situation
Soon, the calm Hitler organized the Gestapo to investigate the matter, and the assassination team was powerless to fight back, and within a night arrested Stauffenberg and others, their bodies were sparked and their ashes were scattered indiscriminately after being hanged. The Gestapo purge continued, with more than 7,000 arrests, 4,980 of whom were killed over the course of several months. Twenty generals were killed on the spot, 36 were sentenced to death, and 49 committed suicide, and even the famous Rommel was involved and forced to commit suicide.
The failure of this assassination operation, on the surface, is Hitler's luck, but in fact, this assassination operation seems to be a huge lineup, but the plan is very natural, and there is no plan for all kinds of unexpected situations that are completely possible, which allows Hitler to escape the disaster. Of course, Hitler's luck this time did not change the fate of Germany's defeat, and it is ironic that Hitler, who escaped countless assassinations, eventually committed suicide.