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2 unusual facts about 20 July Plot


Bodewin Keitel

On the day of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler (20 July 1944) Keitel was on an inspection tour in his command area.

Stauffenberg

The Schenken von Stauffenberg are an aristocratic Roman Catholic family from Swabia in Germany, whose best-known member was Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – the key figure in the 1944 "20 July plot" to assassinate Adolf Hitler.


Die Deutsche Wochenschau

Among the many notable scenes preserved by the newsreel are the Nazi point of view during the Battle of Normandy, the footage of Hitler and Mussolini right after the 20 July plot, and the last footage (No. 755) of Hitler awarding the Iron Cross to Hitler Youth volunteers in the garden of the Reich Chancellery shortly before the Battle of Berlin.

Joachim von Kortzfleisch

In Bryan Singer's 2008 film Valkyrie, based on the 20 July plot, a character representing von Kortzfleisch (but credited only as "Pompous General") is portrayed by English actor Ian McNeice.

Otto Armster

Otto Armster (born July 11, 1891 in Preetz – 21 September 1957) was a German military intelligence-officer and a member of the German resistance, involved in the 20 July plot of 1944, the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Paul Löbe

Löbe was imprisoned by the Nazi authorities shortly after the Machtergreifung on 30 January 1933, and again in 1944 after the 20 July Plot because of his connections with the resistance circle around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

Werner Schrader

Werner Schrader (* 7 March 1895 in Rottorf (today part of Königslutter), Germany, † 28 July 1944 in Zossen) was a German military officer involved in several plots by the German Resistance including the famous 20 July plot, a coup d'état attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler.


see also

Ewald von Kleist

Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890–1945), conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler