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The July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler

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Klaus Stauffenberg - He's Going to Kill Hitler?

Klaus Stauffenberg had been wounded previously, I think in Africa, right? Yes, under Rommel. loses his left eye and basically he's got two functioning fingers and a thumb at this point. Not the perfect person to carry out a very highly technical bomb planting. He never said, maybe I should just shoot him in the head. Well, he wanted to live as evidenced by the actual plot that they came up with. And one of them was because Himmler and Garing, I believe, were meant to be in the room with Hitler. So they called it off. But apparently Klaus Stauffenburg decided on his own. Right.

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