Valkyrie plot fails to kill Hitler
July 20, 1944
Count Claus von Stauffenberg slid a briefcase with a bomb under a map table at Hitler's East Prussian headquarters and left the room. The bomb went off; Hitler survived with singed trousers. By midnight Stauffenberg was shot in a Berlin courtyard. Five thousand more Germans were killed in the bloody purge that followed.
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