HITLER MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL
From 1939 to 1945, dozens of men, isolated or
in group, tried to eliminate Hitler. They all failed, most of
the time due to a hitch or the phenomenal luck of the
dictator.
No attempted attack has ever been capable to eliminate
the horrendous nazi clique. More than a dozen times,
plotters tried to blow the clique up, totally or partially:
some attempts were canceled at the last minute under
the pretense that Himmler or Goering would not be
present which means that the plotters aimed at
destroying the whole nazi regime and not only der Fuhrer.
Main murder attempts against Hitler occured as follows :
1- PRE-WAR ATTEMPTS
* 1935 : a SA man, named Kraus, according to Bridget
Hitler, who was granted permission to present a petition
personally to the Fuhrer, was the would-be assassin who
came nearest to succeeding. At the Berghof, Hitler's
Bavarian Alps' retreat, he fired a single shot at Hitler and
missed. He was shot at five times by the guards and died
instantly. His motives are unknown but it might be
surmised that they had something to do with the murder
of Roehm, SA leader in 1934.
* 1935 : another version of an attack motivated by
Roehm's assassination was brought forward by Otto
Strasser in his book "Flight from Terror" (NY 1943). It
seems much more credible than the Bridget Hitler's
version. Another SA man named Heinrich Grunow, who
had not swallowed Ernst Roehm's murder, got in touch
with Otto Strasser, head of the Black Front opposition
movement to Hitler, and set up a plan to kill Hitler while
the Fuhrer was driven to his beloved Berchtesgarten
retreat. Grunow was member of the close guard
protecting Hitler at Berchtesgarten and knew that at
some spot on the road the car had to slow down to less
than 15mph and argued to Strasser that it would be a
propitious location to shot at Hitler. Strasser agreed to
the plot and Grunow went to execute his murderous
task. Unfortunately, according to Strasser, Hitler had
taken the wheel on this day and Grunow shot the driver
in the back seat while Hitler escaped alive. The irony is
that Grunow, persuaded that he had succeeded in his
attack, committed suicide on the spot while
Hitler-the-driver scared to death rushed out of the car
that he had put to a sudden halt. Hitler's chauffeur, Herr
Schreck, was hit in the chest, the jaw and his right
temple. Officially he died of a tooth infection.
* 1939 : before the outset of the hostilities, German
Generals planned to destroy the hitlerite threat and the
Fuhrer himself. Gal. Kurt von Hammerstein tried several
times to attract Hitler in the fortification of the Siegfried
line in order to simulate some sort of accident. Hitler
never responded to Hammerstein's invites.
2- WAR ATTEMPTS
* 1943 : Poltava, Ukraine : in Spring 1943, several
attempts took place during Hitler's stay in occupied
Ukraine. Three plans were successively elaborated but all
failed. They were carried out by Marshal von Kluge, Capt.
Von Boeslager, Col. Von Tresckov, Lt. Von
Schlabrendorff with Col. Von Gersdorff. Twice, the plans
were called off due to a huge presence of the SS guards
that made the whole attempt too perilous and
hazardous. For the third attempt, von Schlabrendorff hid
a time bomb into a bottle of French brandy and put it
onboard the airplane that Hitler used to fly back to Berlin.
The plane took off with the bombish-brandy but due to
extreme coldness in high altitude the detonator froze and
nothing happened. After landing, von Schlabrendorff was
able to put an inoffensive bottle of cognac into the cargo
and nobody suspected anything.
* 1943 : on the 27th of July, Hitler was scheduled to
attend a military review in nazi occupied Paris. Count
General Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenberg prepared an
attack against Hitler but at the last moment the
unpredictable Fuhrer canceled his participation and
enjoyed a much more agreeable tour of Paris.
* 1943 : in December, Captain Axel Freiherr von dem
Bussche took on himself to commit a suicide-attack
against Hitler in Berlin. The pretext would be the trial of a
new winter combat-jacket. Bussche planned to set off
two hand grenades concealed in his great coat. His plan
failed to materialize when the uniforms, housed in a
railway car, were destroyed in an Allied bombing raid the
night before Hitler was to view the display. In 1944,
Bussche was severely wounded by a mortar shell in battle
and lost a leg.
* 1944 : nine days later, Stauffenberg and several other
plotters in the Wehrmacht hid a time-bomb in a briefcase
in the meeting room at Rastenburg,where Hitler met
nazis and military leaders. Stauffenberg put the briefcase
against the foot of his chair and left under a futile
pretext. In his absence, an officer hit the case with his
foot and placed it further down in the room against the
oak panel of the huge table. When it exploded it missed
his principal target, Hitler, who was slightly wounded.
Four people were killed and the ensuing repression was
terrible. Stauffenberg's widow, Nina Schenk von
Stauffenberg, died April 2 2006 in her hometown
Bamberg age 93.
* 1945 : Albert Speer himself, Hitler's closest aid,
ex-Armaments Minister until 1945, planned in March to
release toxic gases into the ventilator of the
air-conditioning plant of the Chancellery in order to kill
Hitler and his main surviving aids. When he discovered
that on Hitler's personal order this ventilator had recently
been surrounded by a chimney four metres high, it was
no longer possible to carry out the plan. Speer, who
pretended during the Nuremberg trial that he had
betrayed Hitler 40 times during the last months of the
war, was nevertheless sentenced to 20 years
imprisonment in 1946. He was a cunning and ambitious
mand who served the Nazis too well and got just what he
deserved.
Finally, there were assassination attempts successful or
not against a lot of nazi leaders, not only against Hitler.
The most famous are:
* attempt against Franz von Papen, ambassador in
Austria : bomb in Turkey (unsuccessful)
* bomb thrown at Reinhard Heydrich, "Protector" (sic) of
Bohemia-Moravia, in Prague (successful)
* bomb against Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger,
SS-Oberabschnittsfuhrer, in Krakau (unsuccessful)
* Hanns Rauter, commissioner-general for public security
in the German-occupied Netherlands, was shot in Holland
and seriously wounded
* Wilhelm Kube, Gauleiter of White Russia, was
assassinated in Minsk: Elena Mazanik, a member of the
Minsk anti-fascist underground, planted a bomb in his
bedroom on 22 September 1943. After the war she was
honoured with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
In the end, Hitler was extremely lucky. All those attempts
show once more how it is difficult to get rid of a tyrant.
That sort of men are very well guarded, are generally
protected by the devil, and most of all, are unpredictable:
they change their timetable for no reason as though they
were warned by some survival instinct or by some good
genie.
| ADOLF and HIS LUCK |
Altogether, almost twenty attempts
or assassination preparations were
made of which three were very close
to success. It is thus false to say
that Hitler was adored by everybody
in Germany, lots of people hated him
especially in Berlin - and were ready
to die to get Germany rid of her
Austrian tyran.
or assassination preparations were
made of which three were very close
to success. It is thus false to say
that Hitler was adored by everybody
in Germany, lots of people hated him
especially in Berlin - and were ready
to die to get Germany rid of her
Austrian tyran.
Fidel Castro, another tyran still alive, has
survived many attempts to take his life and
his bloody regime. As for Bin Laden, the
9/11 Report of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks upon the USA has clearly
shown that the CIA and the FBI have on
several occasions planned to kill Bin Laden
before the attack against the Trade Towers
but that it is easier to plan such an attack
than to achieve it successfully. Every time,
the plans were dropped by fear of killing too
many innocent people around Bin Laden.
survived many attempts to take his life and
his bloody regime. As for Bin Laden, the
9/11 Report of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks upon the USA has clearly
shown that the CIA and the FBI have on
several occasions planned to kill Bin Laden
before the attack against the Trade Towers
but that it is easier to plan such an attack
than to achieve it successfully. Every time,
the plans were dropped by fear of killing too
many innocent people around Bin Laden.
* 1939 : on the 8th of novembrer, in Munich, a
swiss watchmaker, named Georg Elser, who has
been living in Germany for many years and vividly
resented the anti-labor laws promulgated by the
regime, hid a time-bomb in the brewery where
Hitler was scheduled for a speech. Hitler
shortened his speech and the bomb exploded on
schedule but ten minutes after Hitler has left,
killing eight persons. Elser was deported in a KC
(koncentrationcamp) and was hung in april 1945.
swiss watchmaker, named Georg Elser, who has
been living in Germany for many years and vividly
resented the anti-labor laws promulgated by the
regime, hid a time-bomb in the brewery where
Hitler was scheduled for a speech. Hitler
shortened his speech and the bomb exploded on
schedule but ten minutes after Hitler has left,
killing eight persons. Elser was deported in a KC
(koncentrationcamp) and was hung in april 1945.
* 1944 : on the 11th of July, Lt-Col. Claus von
Stauffenberg, hero of the Afrika Korps campaign, but
sickened by the nazis exactions since long, decided to
get into action and to blow himself up in the meeting
room at the Berghof. Informed that Himmler and
Goering would not be present, Stauffenberg called off
his plan.
| Hitler showing to his buddy Benito rescued by Skorzeny how he escaped the attack of July 20th 1944 |
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