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15 Mad Murder Plots

20 JULY 1944
Countdown 10am 12.20pm 12.30pm 12.30pm

to catastrophe ● Stau enberg arrives at ● The bomb is prepared ● The bomb is planted ● The conference begins

the Wolf’s Lair
Noticing that the disabled

Thanks to the hot

Stau enberg visits the

Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg’s Wrongly believing bathroom and attempts Stau enberg is struggling weather, the meeting
is not held in the
to carry the briefcase,
to arm the bombs.
that the Gestapo have
audacious plot to kill Hitler discovered the plot to kill Missing his left eye, his Major Ernst John von underground bunker,
but upstairs in the main
Hitler, Claus Schenk von
Freyend carries it into
right hand and two of

might have changed the course Stau enberg decides to his remaining ngers, it the meeting room for room of the Wolf’s Lair.

him, unwittingly placing
Besides Hitler, more than
proves ddly work and

put Operation Valkyrie
of history. Instead, it went into action, suspecting he is forced to go into the the bomb next to Hitler. 20 others are present
disastrously wrong that this might be his one meeting with only one When it detonates, including administrative
bomb primed.
and only chance.

Freyend survives.
and military sta .
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