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The story of Elser is commemorated in the 1989 film Seven Minutes (German: Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland) directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer, and the 2015 film 13 Minutes (German: Elser), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. The Georg Elser Prize was established in 2001. It is awarded every two years to individuals who have demonstrated ...
To prepare for the assassination Elser moved to Munich in the summer of 1939. The monument is located close to the former site of the room he had rented. Monument lit at 21:20. The monument was designed by artist Silke Wagner. The monument is made of aluminium and glass forming the lettering "8 November 1939". The elements are arranged in a ...
A carpenter, Georg Elser, was arrested, imprisoned for 5 1 ⁄ 2 years, and executed shortly before the end of the war. [5] The building suffered severe structural damage from Elser's bomb, and in subsequent years, 1940–1943, the Beer Hall Putsch address was held at the Löwenbräukeller at Stiglmaierplatz, [8] and in 1944 at the Circus Krone ...
Elser is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Johann Georg Elser (1903–1945), attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler 13 Minutes (2015 film), a German film about Johann Georg Elser, also titled Elser; Konrad Elser, German pianist; Marianne Elser Crowder (1906–2010), American girl-scout leader
During his last two years in prison, Zahl wrote the play Johann Georg Elser. Ein deutsches Drama . He took up the story of Georg Elser (1903–1945), a carpenter who had received little public attention until then, but who on November 8, 1939, bombed Adolf Hitler in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller and was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp ...
The incident was later used by the German government to link Britain to Georg Elser's failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, on 8 November 1939, and to help justify Germany's invasion of the Netherlands (then a neutral country) on 10 May 1940. [3]
Hermaringen is known as the birthplace of Georg Elser, who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939. Stolperstein Georg Elser in Hermaringen. References
Georg Elser, (1903–1945) worker who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1939, but failed. Konrad Duden, (1829–1911) linguist. Developed the German dictionary Duden.