A Plan To Kill Adolf Hitler

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On July 20, 1944, a plan to kill Adolf Hitler would take place in Rastenburg, East Prussia. The people who planned to kill him was two of the officers under his power. The plan was to bring a bomb in a breif case and set it next to his when he left for a phone call. During WW II everyone was attempting to kill Hitler by means of the Valkyrie Plot because they wanted to end the war, and they diagreed with his belief, however; the plot failed and would change Hitler’s inner circle of officers.
The German officers who wanted to end the war wanted to because they're getting tired of Hitler killing all the people he did. When they planned to it was right after Hitler was killing all the people. They have proof that 20 million Soviet Union to the

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