List of members of the 20 July plot

Main article: 20 July plot
Carl Wentzel appearing before Judge Roland Freisler at the Volksgerichtshof ("People's Court"), 1944

On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler and his top military associates entered the briefing hut of the Wolf's Lair military headquarters, a series of concrete bunkers and shelters located deep in the forest East Prussia, not far from the epic World War I Battle of Tannenberg.[1] Suddenly there was an enormous explosion, which killed three officers and a stenographer, and injured everyone else.[1] This assassination attempt was the work of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an aristocrat who had been severely wounded – losing his right hand, left eye, and two fingers of his left hand – while serving in the North African theater of war.[1]

The bomb plot was a carefully planned coup d'état attempt against the Nazi regime, orchestrated by a group of disillusioned army officers.[1] Their plan was to assassinate Hitler, seize power in Berlin, establish a new pro-Western government and save Germany from the total defeat.[1]

Immediately after arresting and executing the plot leaders in Berlin, the Gestapo, the secret police force of Nazi Germany, began arresting people involved or even suspected of being involved.[2] The opportunity was also used to eliminate other Nazi critics remaining.[2] In total, an estimated 7,000 people were arrested of which approximately 4,980 were executed, some slowly strangled with piano wire on Hitler's insistence.[3] Among those executed were two field marshals, nineteen generals, twenty-six colonels, two ambassadors, seven diplomats, one minister, three secretaries of state, as well as the head of the Berlin police.[3] This is a list of people who are known by name to have been a member of the coup attempt.

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See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 How Hitler's Bodyguard Worked 2015.
  2. 1 2 The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler 2015.
  3. 1 2 Shirer 1960, p. 1393.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Shirer, p1393
  5. 1 2 Shirer, p1333
  6. 1 2 3 Shirer, p1394
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Shirer, p1392
  8. ↑ Shirer, p1330
  9. ↑ Shirer, pp 1382–84, 1394
  10. ↑ Shirer, p1326
  11. ↑ Shirer, p1386
  12. 1 2 Shirer, p1391
  13. ↑ Shirer, p1384
  14. ↑ Shirer, p1398
  15. ↑ de:Otto Hübener
  16. ↑ Shirer, p1182
  17. ↑ de:Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar
  18. 1 2 Shirer, p1387
  19. ↑ Authentic signature: "Mertz", Order Valkyrie
  20. ↑ Shirer, p197
  21. ↑ Shirer, p1355
  22. ↑ Shirer, pp1392
  23. ↑ Shirer, pp1399-1400

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