Opposition to the Nazis: July Bomb Plot
- Created by: Alice Edwards-King
- Created on: 09-06-15 19:52
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- Opposition to the Nazis: July Bomb Plot
- Von Stauffenburg created Operation Valkyrie
- A plan to kill Hitler
- The plan was to use 2 bombs in a briefcase, kill the Fuhrer and take control of Berlin
- Operation Valkyrie was tried in 1943 and early 1944 but Hitler decided to spend his Christmas holidays in Rastenburg
- Last minute decision
- Von Stauffenburg took a bomb to a conference in Bavaria but told not to use it as Himmler not present
- 20th July 1944 the opportunity arose
- Bombs brought to Rastenburg
- Work by a silent fuse being set off by breaking a glass capsule of acid
- Take 10 mins for acid to dissole wire which releases the firing pin
- Stauffenburg had a specially made pair of pliers that he could hold with 3 fingers
- Von Stauffenburg had helpers
- Lieutenant von Haeften who was carrying reserve bomb
- General Fellgiebel the chief of signals. Would inform other plotters of the result of assassination
- Meeting took place in an upstairs room because of the hot weather rather than the underground bunker
- Von Stauffenberg set the bomb going and put the briefcase under the table, 3 places to the right of Hitler
- Von Stauffenberg leaves the room saying he has an urgent phone call
- While gone, Colonel Brandt kicks the briefcase over and places it the other side of the table leg
- The bomb exploded, bodies flew out of windows and roof fell in
- Hitler was not killed
- His hair got singed
- Right leg badly burned and right arm temporarily paralysed
- Operation Valkyrie failed as Hitler did not die but everybody thought he had
- The seize on Berlin did not happen fast enough
- Von Stauffenberg, Beck and other leading plotters were executed
- Nearly 5000 of his opponents killed
- Von Stauffenburg created Operation Valkyrie
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