WW2.- Operation Valkyrie

Ticker tape notification, the message reading that Fritzsche of the Propaganda Ministry states that the plot to assassinate Hitler was insignificant and carried out by only two generals and their entourage and was dealt with without complications, mounted in fifteen strips on white board and matted for display, overall 720 x 640 mm; with another ticker tape from the same day, conveying a message from the Führer's headquarters noting that an explosives attack was launched to eliminate the Führer, but that he suffered only light burns and bruises and was able to take up work immediately afterwards, and that he had a long conference with the Duce [Mussolini], and noting that several generals and admirals sustained injuries, mounted in eight strips on white board and matted for display, overall size 630 x 680mm. (2)

***By the summer of 1944 a number of Germany’s senior military leaders were beginning to lose hope that Germany could win the war and many blamed Hitler for leading Germany to disaster. Several notable politicians and senior military officials hatched a plot to assassinate the Führer by planting a bomb during a meeting at the Wolfsschanze (the Wolf’s Lair, one of Hitler’s military headquarters) on July 20th and by doing so, to trigger a political consolidation and coup d’état. The plot was codenamed Operation Valkyrie and was led by the German aristocrat and army officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in conjunction with General Friedrich Olbricht and General Ludwig Beck of the German general staff. At around 12.45pm the bomb exploded, destroying the conference room and killing three officers and a stenographer. Hitler survived, shielded from the blast by the solid-oak conference table leg. His trousers were in tatters and he suffered a perforated eardrum.