Who Was Responsible For Col. Von Stauffenberg's Downfall

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Col. Von Stauffenberg feared the way Hitler was running Germany and that it would ruin the country and lead to its downfall. So Stauffenberg joined a group of like-minded, high ranking officials who wanted to overthrow the Nazi regime from the inside. Stauffenberg begins a plan to assassinate Hitler himself. The plan was for Stauffenberg to place a bomb near Hitler during a meeting. After that Olbricht was supposed to call Stauffenberg to confirm and continue with the operation. Then Fellgiebel was to cut lines of communications off while Olbricht sent an order for the reserve army to arrest all members of the SS. Then after all of them were arrested, the new chancellor appointed by the group was to give an announcement to the public to

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