On the 20th of July 1944, at 12:10 hours, the German army officer Claus von Stauffenberg, placed a briefcase with a bomb under the table of a conference room in East Prussia around which Hitler and more than 20 officers had gathered. At 12:20 hours, Stauffenberg left the room. At 12:40 hours, the bomb exploded. While other officers and a stonographer died soon after, Hitler survived.
Yesterday evening I listened to an interesting broadcast on the topic by Deutschlandradio Kultur. You can download the manuscript of the broadcast at Fromm und das realpolitische Kalkül beim Attentat auf Hitler – Hintergründe des 20. Juli 1944.
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