The Most Famous Failed Attack on Adolf Hitler

Operation Walküre: The plan, the conspirators, course, and consequences

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Operation Walküre — The Wolfsschanze after the bombing — Photo: Bundesarchiv

InIn July 1944, a group of high-ranking German soldiers, politicians and prominent citizens tried to get rid of Adolf Hitler and carry out a coup d’état. This coup is known as Operation Walküre or the July Plot. The coup failed hopelessly. What exactly happened in the…

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