According to Pierre Galante’s Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals’ Plot Against Hitler, July 20 was an unbearably hot day and the meeting planners decided to move the meeting to a wooden ...

Many Germans today think first of July 20, 1944, when it comes to the resistance against National Socialism. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, as a result, has become its face.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last known surviving conspirator of Operation Valkyrie, the 1944 assassination plot that failed to kill Adolf Hitler but became a celebrated episode of German ...

On July 20, 1944, an attempt was made on Adolf Hitler’s life at his headquarters on the Eastern Front. It was the second try (another fell apart the prior spring) by a group of German officers ...

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 ...

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 ...