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so-called ?Fuhrer? was a threat to   happened before H itler and his gang   that the only way to kill H itler was to
     the Catholic Church and an           of bodyguards entered his plane for   glue the bom b onto him self and get
     ?incarnation of Satan,? and he       a trip back to Germ any. Before the   as close to H itler as possible to kill
     considered it his spiritual duty to   plane took off a m an approached    him . T his did not work
                                          one of his crew m em bers and asked
     gun him  down?(Evan Andrews).        if he would take two bottles of      unfortunately H itler had left early
     W hen a parade celebrating the       brandy back with them  to a friend.   and Rudolf had to run to the
     anniversary of the last attem pt was   T hey said yes, what they did not   bathroom  to defuse the bom b. H e
     in town he tucked his pistol in his   know was those bottles were rigged   succeeded and was not killed if he
     pocket and waited for H itler to     to explode 30  m inutes later. ?T he                 was a few seconds
                                          package, containing two
     approach. H is view was blocked
                                          bottles of brandy, is a gift                         later he would be
     because people were raising their
                                          for M ajor-General H elm uth   "If you t ell a  big   dead.
     swastikas in praise for H itler.
                                          Stieff in Berlin. Concealed
     M aurice later got arrested because   in the package is a tim e   enough lie and t ell     Ju ly 20 th
     he was trying to stow away on a      bom b but it failed to                               Plot-1944
     train. After he confessed to trying to   explode owing to the high   it  frequent ly
     kill H itler he was executed by      altitude cold air freezing   enough, it  will be           T his
                                          the acid in the detonator
     guillotine in Berlin Plotzensee      cap?(George D uncan). T hey                          assassination
     Prison.                                                          believed"- Adolf         attem pt took place
                                          bom b m akers were                                   in ?wolf 's L air?
     1939- Geor g elser ?s beer           surprised that H itler had   Hit ler                 which was a
                                          landed safely and wondered                           com m and station
     h all plot                           why the bom b didn?t go off.                         in Prussia. T he
                                          T hey were also worried                              m ain conspirator
           Georg was a Germ an carpenter   about H itler finding the bom b after   for this plot was Claus Von
     who strongly opposed Nazism . H e    they had safely landed. T hey later   Stauffenberg. ? Alm ost all of the
     believe that H itler would lead      found the defective fuse that lead to   conspirators shared a conservative,
     Germ any to war and D ebt. So he     the bom b not blowing up while       nationalist perspective and an
     planned to put a bom b M unich beer   H itler was on the plane.           aristocratic background? (T he July
     hall where H itler was going to give                                      20, 1944, Plot to assassinate Adolf
     his speech. To build this bom b took   1943-Ru dolf  Von                  H itler). H is plan was to kill H itler
     a very long tim e because the tim er   Ger tsdor f f ?s Su icide          with a hidden bom b and if he was
     was set to go off in 144 hours. After   M ission                          successful he would m ake peace.
                                                                               W hen he arrived at wolf ?s lair he
     the bom b was com pleted he m oved                                        was carrying a briefcase full of
 Alm ost Killing   different tim es H itler was alm ost assassinated. You m ight   to M unich and began sneaking into         T his attem pt on H itler's life was   plastic bom bs tied to an acid fuse.
     Burgerbraukeller every night to
 be surprised at how m uch planning was needed to
                                                                               H e left to m ake a phone call which
 orchestrate som e of these attem pts, or how close som e of   hollow out a hole in a stone pillar so   m ade only one week after the   was fake. L ater the bom b went off it
                                          Brandy bom b had failed to explode.
 the attem pts were to each other.
 H itler                                                                          he could place his bom b their. After   ?T his tim e, the scene of the   killed four different m en but H itler
                                                                               left with m inim al injuries. After the
     placing the bom b in the hollowed
     out space he set it to detonate on   assassination was an exhibition of   attem pt H itler bragged that he was
 All the tim es H itler was alm ost killed  1921- M u n ich  Beer H all M elee  Novem ber 8th 1939 at 9:20  P.M .   captured Soviet flags and weaponry   im m ortal but later stayed m ore
     T hat tim e was roughly half way     in                                                     hidden away then
 BY AVERY TAVIS        T his attem pt on H itler?s life took place twenty years   through H itler?s Speech. H is bom b   before these
 before W W II even began. At this tim e during H itler?s life   was perfectly tim ed. H itler had   assassination
       O n April 30 th 1945 H itler killed him self in an                                        attem pts.
 he was not very well known, and the Nazi party had just   changed the tim e of his speech
 underground bunker in Berlin, Germ any. I bet you didn?t
 began. H itler was giving a speech on why you should join   because he wanted to get back as          Now H itler
 know that he was alm ost killed six different tim es.
 the party. In the audience were m em bers of the party   soon as possible because W W ll had    did not die from
 Knowing who H itler was this fact is actually not that                                          an assassination.
 and people who did not like the values of   just started three m onths earlier.
 surprising. H itler was a very                                                                  But is is good to
 the party. In the m iddle of the speech a   H itler finished his rem arks at 9:0 7
 horrible person, this caused m any                                                              look at the tim es
 fight began about things that H itler had   PM  and he had left the building by
 different people to want him                                                                    that he was
 said. According to Evan Andrews ?while   9:12 PM . W hich m eant the bom bing
 dead. T hat is why m any people   the fists, beer steins and chairs were flying,   was not a success. According to   alm ost
 tried to assassinate him . Even   a group of unknown assailants drew pistols   Chris Bowlby ? But historians   assassinated.
 though everybody who tried   and fired several shots in the direction of   believe H itler's death in 1939 could   From  this article
 failed, the hate was m ost likely   the speaker?s podium .?(1921: T he M unich   have shortened the war, and   you can also
 what caused him  to com m it   Beer H all M elee) H itler was unhurt during   possibly prevented m uch of the   A newspaper that was around during the time when   have theories on
 suicide after the war was over. ?he   this attem pt and actually gained m ore   suffering of the H olocaust.?(T he   Hitler escaped one of his assassination attempts in a   why he killed
 orchestrated both W orld War II   m an who m issed killing H itler by 13   beer cellar.         him self after the
 attention and m ore followers after this
 and the H olocaust, events that led   m inutes). After he confessed he   Berlin, which the Fuhrer was   war. People have
 attem pt.                                                                     a lot of different theories on why
 to the deaths of at least   spent m any years in concentration   scheduled to visit for a tour?(Evan
 40,0 0 0,0 0 0  people.? (9 T hings   This is Hitler he is saluting to the people who were at   1938-M au r ice Bavau d?s   cam ps and was executed after being   Andrews).Rudolf volunteered to set   H itler eventually died from  a
 one of his rallies on his arm is a swastika a very                            suicide. So today when you learn in
 you m ight not know about Adolf   popular sign of Nazism.  attem pt  dragged out of his cell.  the bom b and blow it up. W hile he
 H itler).  1943-H en n in g Von          was looking for a place to put the   class about the holocaust and what
       Knowing this inform ation I think you m ight feel that   bom b, he realized there was no   H itler did you are not only learning
          In late 1938 M aurice Bavaud bought a pistol.   Br an dy Bom b       history you are learning about m ore
 his assassination attem pts were deserved. W ell if you do   After buying the pistol he began to stalk H itler   place they could put the bom b   death than you have ever thought.
 will enjoy this article. In this article you will see six
 everywhere he went. ?Bavaud was convinced the         T his assassination attem pt   without being noticed. H e later said
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