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The July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler

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Did Hitler Take a Cyanide Pill?

Rommel was offered the opportunity to take his own life. Hitler would require certain people had wire tied around their throat, and then that was hung from a meat hook. Beartold von Stauffenberg was one of those guys. He was strangled multiple times and revived so that they could strangle him again.

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