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- Article by Auke de Vlieger
- Published on December 13th, 2016
Assault and coup of July 20th, 1944
The assassination attempt on Hitler and the subsequent coup of July 20th, 1944 are among the best known events of the Second World War. The history of the German Widerstand (resistance) is pretty well known meanwhile and the men involved have earned their recognition. Best known of them all is Schwabian aristocrat Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.
- Article by Arnold Palthe
- Published on July 29th, 2017
Assault on Hitler, November 8, 1939
In the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich on November 8, 1939, Adolf Hitler commemorates the Putsch of 1923. Ten minutes after he leaves, a bomb explodes behind the rostrum causing massive damage.
- Article by Sjoerd de Boer
- Published on March 13th, 2023
Execution of the conspirators of July 20, 1944
On July 20, 1944, the most famous of all planned attempts on the Führer took place in his HQ. Hitler barely got away with his life, resulting in a manhunt for the perpetrators. The main character, Claus von Stauffenberg was executed in the inner courtyard of the Bendlerblock in Berlin. Other defendants were executed in Plötzensee prison in Berlin.
- Article by Annabel Junge
- Published on April 22nd, 2023
Herbert Baum Gruppe
On May 18, 1942, two anti-Nazi-communist groups set fire to the anti-Soviet exhibition, the Soviet paradise, which was held in the Lustgarten in Berlin. For Goebbels, this incident formed the direct cause to urge Adolf Hitler to deport all Jewish people from Berlin. The culprits of the arson were members of the Herbert-Baum-Gruppe.
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