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13/03/1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight

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The Plot to Kill Adolf Hitler

Henning von Tresckow was a German officer who attempted to assassinate Hitler. Originally, he planned to shoot him at the airport with the other conspirators. This was called off and he instead smuggled a bomb onto a plane, which took Hitler to Prussia. However, low temperatures caused the bomb to fail to detonate.