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GERMANY-HISTORY-NAZI-ATTEMPT-BOESELAGER
Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, one of the last surviving members of the resistance involved in the assassination attempt on 20 July 1944 against Hitler, sits in a room of his house near the western town of Kreuzberg, 09 July 2004, and holds his former service revolver. Von Boeselager, 86, was a confidant of army officer Henning von Tresckow also involved in the plot and was casted to guide 1,200 soldiers of his cavalry regiment to Berlin, where he should arrest Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and Hitler-s propagandist Joseph Goebbels. The July 20 Plot was a failed coup d-etat initiated by officers of the Wehrmacht. Leader of the plot was Count Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg who planted a bomb during a staff meeting with Hitler on 20 July 1944. Though the bomb went off, Hitler was not killed. The assassination attempt of 20 July 1944 marked the end of many years of efforts by top administrative officials and members of the military to change the course of the war from the centre of power by putting an end to Hitler-s leadership. AFP PHOTO DDP/TORSTEN SILZ GERMANY OUT TO GO WITH STORY
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KREUZBERG GERMANY, 09 iul |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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TORSTEN SILZ |
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17 Iulie 2004 |
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2822 x 1912 (809.01 KB) |
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