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The 20 July plot was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and leader of Nazi Germany, and overthrow the Nazi regime on 20 July 1944. The plotters were part of the German resistance, mainly composed of Wehrmacht officers. [ 1][ 2] The leader of the conspiracy, Claus von Stauffenberg, tried to kill Hitler by detonating an ...
Stauffenberg was born in Stauffenberg Castle, Jettingen on 15 November 1907 and baptised as Claus Philipp Maria Justinian. [1] [2] [3] He was the third of four sons of Count Alfred Schenk von Stauffenberg (1860–1936), the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Württemberg and his wife, Countess Caroline von Üxküll-Gyllenband (1875–1956), the daughter of Count Alfred Richard August von ...
On 26 November, mental patient Josef Thomas, who traveled from Elberfeld to Berlin to shoot Hitler and air force commander Hermann Göring, was arrested by the Gestapo after he confessed his intent. [13] 1937: Berlin: Unknown man in SS uniform An unidentified man in SS uniform reportedly tried to kill Hitler during a rally at the Berlin ...
Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Died. 14 May 1941. (1941-05-14) (aged 25) Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany. Cause of death. Execution by guillotine. Maurice Bavaud (15 January 1916 – 14 May 1941) was a Swiss theology student who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Carl Wentzel appearing before Judge Roland Freisler at the People's Court, 1944 On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler and his top military associates entered the briefing hut of the Wolf's Lair military headquarters, a series of concrete bunkers and shelters located deep in the forest of East Prussia, not far from the location of the World War I Battle of Tannenberg. Soon after, an explosion killed ...
Johann Georg Elser ( German: [ˈɡeː.ɔʁk ˈɛl.zɐ]] ⓘ; 4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich (known as the Bürgerbräukeller Bombing ).
Gavrilo Princip ( Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced [ɡǎʋrilo prǐntsip]; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The killing of the ...
Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler: Erich Naumann: April 29, 1905: June 7, 1951: 46 years, 40 days Commander of Einsatzgruppe VI, Poland. Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, November 1941 – March 1943 (2/5) Commander of the BdS in the Netherlands, September 1943–July 1944 ...