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berg invented an exc to leave the r m After he left, another Ger officer got up to l k at me which Hitler was din e b ef was in his way. He moved it to the other side of a thick k table le When the mb went off, causing eat ge, Hitler was p tected by the . He was wounded but still alive.
Neverthel , t plot might still have succeeded ove l Stauffen­ r s friends in r n had mov at once to i the e ment But they did not They wandered around the city, waiting for definite w that Hitler w dead Sta fen rg flew back to rl e that Hitler w dead and ex cting the city to in the h ds of his friend He found that nothing whatever had en done.
Stauffen rg and the othe were arrested and brutally led No other rious attempts curred to take over the gove ment, largely ­ cau of the licy announced by Bri n and Americ the Allied ­ e ments would not negotiate a ace treaty with any German gove ­ ment but insisted on unconditional surrender. The Hitler re me had still another year to live, at the c t of t suffering r the ople of ­ ro .
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The Allied offensive went on General aG rge Patton, a daring t com nder, won victory ter victory in Frnce and l um. Ameri and British pilots gan the deadly cy of s ur on bombing-wiping out the mes and rking plac of German civilians as a means of ter­ ro ng Ge any into ending the war.
But Hitler had e more card to play. He intended to ble eve ­ thing in the we on one m ive offensive, hoping that a r unding Ger­ man victory would convince the Allies to stop fi tin The Ge an gen­ eral in comman von Rundstedt, did not u tra machines to nd his me ge relying instead on more old-fashioned meth such as field tele­y phone As a r ult e em r at ack ught the Allies totally b surp . General Ei nhower should have known tter. The rmans launch their offensive through the dennes For t, the me pla where offensives had en launched in the Franc Pru ian War and World War I. e ttle of the Bulge, it w known, w one of the bl est of the war. But after the initial su , the Alli were able to stop the offensive and push the Germans bac e Ge f r 0, cas lti the Americans , . But the Ameri were able make g their l The Germ had not g left