Georg Elser's Assassination Analysis

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The chain of assassination attempts on Hitler started long before he took dictatorship. The series of attempts was started 20 years before World War II. The first assassination attempt on Hitler was on November 1921 when Hitler was speaking at the beer hall rally when a brawl occurred and there was gunshots by unknown assassin toward Hitler. I believe that Hitler was the most hated man back then. Some of the attempts were planned and acted by German people. There was also some assassinations attempts on Hitler planned and acted by some of his own officers. There were over 20 assassination attempts on Hitler. One of the assassination attempts that was very interesting to me was the Georg Elser’s Beer Hall Bomb. Georg Elser was born on January …show more content…
Shortly after the D- Day invasion in the summer of 1944, a group of disgruntled German officers organized a plan to assassinate Hitler at his “Wolf’s Lair” command post in Purrsia, Germany. The main man of this plan to assassinate Hitler was Claus von Stauffenberg, a colonel who had lost a hand and a eye during combat in Africa. He and his co-conspirators included Tresckow, a man who has been part of three or the attempts to assassinate Hitler now, Friedrich Olbricht, and Ludwig Beck. They planned to kill him with a hidden bomb and then use German Reserve Army to topple the Nazi High Command. If they was successful in killing Hitler, then they would immediately start to negotiate peace with the …show more content…
There was a man who was in part of three of the assassination attempts on Hitler. I only told you three that was really interesting to me. There was more than twenty assassination attempts on Hitler. Hitler was basically on the most hated guy in Germany at this time.I feel like the people who tried to assassinate HItler just didn't like the path he was putting their country in. He was putting his country in another war. No one succeeded in assassinating Hitler, but in the end they got what they wanted. After the failure of The July Plot Hitler committed suicide on April 30th,

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