#580 | Operation Valkyrie & The Plot To Kill Hitler

<p><strong> </strong></p><br><p>On 20 July 1944, a bomb ripped through a meeting room in Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair. </p> <br> <p>This episode tells how Operation Valkyrie *almost* managed to kill Adolf Hitler, and the vicious crackdown that came afterwards.</p> <br> <ul> <li>The Wolf’s Lair meeting on 20 July 1944</li> <li>Claus von Stauffenberg’s injuries and role in the plot</li> <li>Setting one bomb; briefcase placed near Hitler</li> <li>Explosion at Wolf’s Lair; Hitler survives due to briefcase moved</li> <li>Operation Valkyrie: reserve army plan blaming SS</li> <li>A mixed group’s reasons to remove Hitler</li> <li>Coup starts; Goebbels phones Hitler; Remer switches sides</li> <li>Bendlerblock firefight, arrests, executions of plotters</li> <li>Brutal crackdown: show trials, thousands arrested, many executed</li> <li>Haunting “what if”: ways the plot almost succeeded</li> </ul> <br> Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: <a href="https://ww...