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Bombing Hitler : the story of the man who almost assassinated the Fuhrer / Hellmut G. Haasis ; translated by William Odom.

by Haasis, Hellmut G., 1942-

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New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2013.

Elser, Johann Georg, 1903-1945.

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempt, 1939 (November 8)

Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Biography.

Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.

9781616087418 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1616087412 (hardcover : alk. paper)

226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

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.

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