Trying to Murder Hitler Before the War

With great dictatorial powers, comes a great risk of ceasing to continue to breathe long before your elderly years, with the odds increasing markedly if you also just so happen to make enemies out of not just countless nations of the world, but within a relatively large percentage of your own population through brutality and oppression. Something the Führer of the III Reich was acutely aware of. As the Austrian champion for World’s Silliest Moustache once said: ‘There will never be anyone in the future with as much authority as I have … I can, however, be removed at any time by some criminal or idiot … No one is safe against some idealist or an assassin who ruthlessly stakes his life for his purpose.’ Everybody with a passing knowledge of WWII history and/or Tom Cruise’s cinematography has heard about the Stauffenberg Plot, the failed assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler conducted on July 20, 1944. But this was just one in a long series of attempted or planned shootings, bombings and poisonings conducted against the dictator. And while efforts began rather quaint starting long before WWII, as you’ll soon see, as the years passed things got spicier and spicier for the so-called German Messiah. So let’s dive into it, shall we? This is an excerpt from our video: The Many Harrowing Attempts to Assassinate Hitler:    • The Many Harrowing Attempts to Assassinate...