The 1944 720 murder was not the murder of a teenager on Ryelingstrasse, but the assassination of Hitler by a group of high-ranking Wehrmacht officers, including the Admiral, who was a colonel named Stauffenberg. Of course, if you want to assassinate Hitler, an ordinary guard can't assassinate, your status must at least be able to participate in the combat meeting in the conference room is possible, if you are a senior officer, you don't have to be checked what is in the briefcase, so you have the opportunity to assassinate. The officer's briefcase, Stauffenberg, contained a time bomb. He left early in the middle of the meeting, and as he was leaving, he deliberately placed the briefcase containing the bomb under the table closer to Hitler's seat. As soon as the bomb exploded, not only would Hitler be killed, but the other senior officers present would be killed. So he left early in the middle of the meeting, because he was not so willing to die, and he would not die with the attacker like a later suicide bomber, not to the point of madness. He only wanted to make peace with Britain and the United States after assassinating Hitler, so as to save the fate of Germany, and many generals agreed to this plan, so they carried out this assassination. Unfortunately, such a deliberate assassination attempt failed with a small unconscious action, and the reason for this is that I think Hitler's anger is not exhausted. At that time, a brother sitting at the conference table did not know how to reach the briefcase as soon as he stretched his legs, and he may feel that it was a bit of a obstacle, so he conveniently put the bag on the other side of the table leg. This leg is not just a thin strip of wood like a normal table, but a wide and thick upright plank, as thick as a wall. So after the explosion Hitler was only stunned, not killed. I think this kind of thing is all fate, this popularity is not exhausted, no matter how strictly you plan, he will not die.
Imagine if the briefcase was still on the other side of the table leg, that is, on Hitler's side, he must have been blown up. But on the other side, it was different, although the table was blown away, but Hitler only fell on the head and was slightly injured. I think this German-made table is indeed too strong, if it is replaced by a copycat table, Hitler will certainly not be able to escape death, here we have to lament that the Germans are indeed a very strict nation, the quality of the things they make is indeed very high, so Hitler thus escaped this disaster.
Although Hitler escaped the disaster, this incident still seriously affected Hitler's judgment of the war and the judgment of the army. In fact, Hitler was not German, he was an Austrian, and he was only a corporal in World War I. As we all know, Germany has a Prussian officer aristocratic class, those nobles have been officers for generations, prussian officers have many people named Feng Moumou, in fact, they are not surnamed Feng, "Feng" is an honorary title, these "Feng" generations are Prussian military aristocrats. In their eyes, Hitler, an Austrian, was still a corporal, spoke German and had an accent, and he commanded these aristocratic officers, and everyone was not very convinced. In the beginning, Hitler's decisions had the desired effect. In the triumphant triumph of victory, these noble officers had to bow their proud heads, obey his orders, and swear allegiance to him. But that's actually Hitler's bet, but at the beginning the bet won, the Munich Agreement bet won, the Czech bet won, the Austrian bet won, the Polish bet won, the French bet won, and everyone didn't say it along the way, you were right. Although you are not a real general, but you can always gamble and win, then listen to you. But after the 1944 720 murders, things were different. As we all know, in the summer of 1944, the Soviet army had already broken out of the country, and the troops were in Poland and Romania, and they were continuously attacking the main German forces on the Eastern Front. On the Western Front, the Anglo-American Allies had won a complete victory in the Normandy landings and were preparing to take advantage of the victory to retake France and march into Germany. In Italy, the Allies had retaken Rome and marched north. At this time, Germany was facing an attack on the east, west and south, which could be said to be inevitable defeat. At this time, the high-ranking aristocratic officers of Germany considered themselves to have the future of Germany on their shoulders and were responsible for the future of the German nation, rather than having a corporal from Austria take on such a heavy responsibility.
They felt that an Austrian like Hitler could not be allowed to mess up again at this time, so the Wehrmacht officers launched this assassination. But the assassination was unsuccessful, and as a result, Hitler began the Great Purge. These officers, starting with the admirals, committed suicides and executed executions, so tragic that even Rommel, who was not involved in the matter, was killed. At that time, Rommel was fighting on the Western Front, and someone came to knock on the door, saying that the Fuehrer gave you two choices, one was to be arrested by us and then conduct a public trial, and the other was to quietly commit suicide first, and then we would hold a solemn state funeral. Of course he chose to commit suicide. Rommel, as the most good German general, was thus killed by Hitler.
From then on, Hitler was extremely suspicious of the Wehrmacht and extremely distrustful. The Wehrmacht is an independent class with a very glorious tradition. Germany is a country with a special class of officers, unlike the United States, where the whole country has guns and no special class of soldiers. The Wehrmacht was always a little sympathetic to its Party, the Nazi Party, to its Führer Hitler. As you know, all those crimes committed by Germany, whether it was in Auschwitz, the massacres in Poland, including those in the Soviet Union, and so on, were actually committed by the SS.
The armed forces of Hitler's Germany were in fact composed of two parts, one of which was the Wehrmacht, which had its own independent tradition and administrative structure. Many of the top wehrmacht generals remained at odds with Hitler and were later involved in a plot to overthrow Hitler. For example, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, Admiral Beck, was the mastermind of hitler's assassination, but he had been removed by Hitler long before the outbreak of World War II. The Chief of the Wehrmacht's Chief of Staff was also changed many times because he did not listen to Hitler. The other part was a consorted force that Hitler had personally trained. This army belonged to the Nazi Party and was called the SS. This SS was at Hitler's behest. Of course, the number of SS troops could not be compared with the Wehrmacht, but the more elite divisions, including the Goering Division and the Skeleton Division, these main armored forces were concentrated in the SS. In fact, the Wehrmacht committed significantly fewer war crimes than the SS during the entire Soviet-German war, or rather in World War II. The massacre of Jews or the harm of civilians was mainly done by the SS. Especially after July 20, 1944, Hitler could not believe the Wehrmacht and was so dependent on the SS that all kinds of good weapons and equipment were tilted towards the SS. Several subsequent battles, including the Ardennes Forest Counterattack on the Western Front and the final Battle of Berlin, were fought by the SS. The Wehrmacht had lost Hitler's trust at this time, in fact, it did not matter whether it was trusted or not, the German army was gone by this time, and it did not take long to completely fail. After the war, the tribunal-martial also did not give very harsh trials to F-FDTL officers, including Marshal Manstein, the most important commander of F-FDTL, who were not executed. Later, Manstein also wrote a memoir of the war, The Lost Victory. For the leaders of the SS, the military tribunals imposed extremely severe punishments after the war. (Excerpt from Gao Xiaosong's "The Wild History of Fish and Sheep, Volume IV")
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