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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 ...
Hans Von Dohnanyi was accused of being the "spiritual leader" of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, and executed 6 April 1945. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whom Von Dohnanyi had recruited into the Abwehr, was executed 9 April 1945 along with Canaris, Oster, and 4 others. Executions continued and ramped up into the last days of the war, as the Nazis ...
Operation Valkyrie 2 cover in the Bundesarchiv.. Operation Valkyrie (German: Unternehmen Walküre) was a German World War II emergency continuity-of-government operations plan issued to the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany to implement in the event of a general breakdown in national civil order due to Allied bombing of German cities, or an uprising of the millions of foreign forced ...
The executions were carried out by soldiers under Major Otto Remer early on the morning of 21 July. [ 1 ] Following the assassination attempt, Hitler came to believe that the Wehrmacht leadership could not be trusted; he launched a purge of the officer corps and also used the shock of the attack to round up all the surviving members of the old ...
Count Claus von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊs fɔn ˈʃtaʊfn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of Operation Valkyrie, a plan that would have seen the arrest of Nazi leadership in the wake of Hitler's death and an early end to World War II.
The courtyard in the Bendlerblock where the 20 July conspirators were executed. The Memorial to the German Resistance is located in the buildings to the left of the photo. The museum consists of a series of displays chronicling the history of Nazi Germany and of all those individuals and groups who opposed the single party state of the era and ...
Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944) was a German general during World War II.He is known for being one of the plotters involved in the 20 July Plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Tiergarten quarter in 1938, Bendlerblock on the right. The complex got its name from the street it was on. Today, it is on Stauffenbergstraße (Stauffenberg street named in honour of Claus von Stauffenberg) which was previously known as Bendlerstraße from 1837 until 20 July 1955, after Johann Christoph Bendler (1789–1873) from Hoym in Prussian Halberstadt.