Eighty years ago, on July 20, 1944, at 12:42, a bomb went off in the conference room of the Wolf's Lair military headquarters in East Prussia, the easternmost province of the German Reich until ...

O n July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler and senior Nazi military officers met at the Wolf’s Lair in Rastenburg, ... The plan was known as Operation Valkyrie. The idea was that, once Hitler was dead, ...

Britain's intelligence service may have played a role in the 1944 attempt on the life of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, an author has discovered. The unsuccessful Operation Valkyrie plot, which took ...

In 1944, in fear of a complete German defeat in the World War II, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian ...

The remembrance of Operation Valkyrie and the assassination attempt has shifted over time. ... 1944, when it comes to the resistance against National Socialism.

Claus von Stauffenberg and a group of renegade Nazi officers hatched a plot to assassinate Hitler.

Operation Valkyrie, the July 1944 military-led plot to assassinate Hitler and install a new government, remains the best-known act of German resistance against the Third Reich. But it was the ...

Operation Valkyrie. In early July 1944, Stauffenberg was appointed chief of staff to General Friedrich Fromm, a position which gave him access to Hitler’s military meetings and an opportunity to ...