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Bombing Hitler : the story of the man who almost assassinated the Fuhrer /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haasis, Hellmut G., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the German.
Published: New York : Skyhorse Pub., [2013]
Subjects:
Elser, Johann Georg, > 1903-1945.
Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945 > Assassination attempt, 1939 (November 8)
Anti-Nazi movement > Germany > Biography.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
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.