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  ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HITLER, 1944 SATURDAY, JULY 20 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HITLER, 1944 80 years ago today, on July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler was to die. Colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg had prepared the assassination attempt with other Wehrmacht officers. Well planned, but failed On July 20, a meeting was held in Hitler's headquarters, the "Wolf's Lair," which Stauffenberg attended. The colonel detonated the device he had smuggled into the room. Five people were killed in the attempted assassination, while Hitler escaped with just minor wounds. That same evening, von Stauffenberg and his accomplices were shot and killed in Berlin. In the months that followed, another 200 officers and politicians who were connected to July 20, 1944, were executed. Aim: To finally end the war Von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators saw the assassination as the only way to save Germany from certain collapse. They were in contact with other opponents of National Socialism wh...