Bombing Hitler, the story of the man who almost assassinated the Fuhrer, Hellmut G. Haasis ; translated by William Odom
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Bombing Hitler, the story of the man who almost assassinated the Fuhrer, Hellmut G. Haasis ; translated by William Odom
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226)
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individual biography
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no index present
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non fiction
Main title
Bombing Hitler
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793497188
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Hellmut G. Haasis ; translated by William Odom
Sub title
the story of the man who almost assassinated the Fuhrer
Summary
Describes how an average citizen of Munich secretly assembled and detonated a bomb intended to kill Adolf Hitler during a 1939 speech and the would-be assassin's attempted escape to Switzerland before ending his life in a concentration camp
Table Of Contents
Hitler speaks under a ticking time bomb -- The assassin is foiled at the border -- The explosion -- Searching the rubble -- Reaction to the attack -- The evidence mounts -- From Königsbronn to Berlin -- Confession and interrogation -- Cult of death : the official ceremony of November 11 -- The search for the instigators -- Assassinville -- Elser's youth and working years in Königsbronn -- A freer life at Lake Constance -- Back to Königsbronn -- Assassination : the decision -- The preparations -- Night work in the Bürgerbräukeller -- In the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen -- The end in Dachau -- The long road to recognition
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