On
this date, July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler
survives an assassination attempt led by German Army
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. Please go to this previous blog post to read a Speech of
Hitler.
Benito Mussolini visits Hitler's headquarter Wolfsschanze
near Rastenburg (Ketrzyn) in East Prussia in the day of 20 july attenat. The
view of destroyed corridor of barrack (There is Dr Paul Schmidt - Mussolini's
interpreter in the background).
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The
20 July plot refers to the attempt to assassinate Adolf
Hitler, Führer
of the Third
Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East
Prussia, in July 1944. The apparent purpose of the assassination attempt
was to seize political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi
Party (including the SS) in order to obtain peace with the Allies as
soon as possible. The underlying desire of many of the involved high ranking Wehrmacht
officers was apparently to show to the world that not all Germans were like
Hitler and the NSDAP.
The details of the conspirators' peace initiatives remain unknown, but they
likely would have included demands to accept wide reaching territorial
annexations by Germany in Europe.
The
plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German
Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government. The failure of both
the assassination and the military coup d'état which was planned to
follow it led to the arrest of at least 7,000 people by the Gestapo. According to records of the Führer
Conferences on Naval Affairs, 4,980 of these were executed.
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