#580 | Operation Valkyrie & The Plot To Kill Hitler

On 20 July 1944, a bomb ripped through a meeting room in Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair.

This episode tells how Operation Valkyrie *almost* managed to kill Adolf Hitler, and the vicious crackdown that came afterwards.

• The Wolf’s Lair meeting on 20 July 1944

• Claus von Stauffenberg’s injuries and role in the plot

• Setting one bomb; briefcase placed near Hitler

• Explosion at Wolf’s Lair; Hitler survives due to briefcase moved

• Operation Valkyrie: reserve army plan blaming SS

• A mixed group’s reasons to remove Hitler

• Coup starts; Goebbels phones Hitler; Remer switches sides

• Bendlerblock firefight, arrests, executions of plotters

• Brutal crackdown: show trials, thousands arrested, many executed

• Haunting “what if”: ways the plot almost succeeded

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/operation-valkyrie

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