Interesting site on WWII assasination attempt, what if?

[iggi]

http://www.joric.com/Conspiracy/Conspiracy.htm

Loads of info on German command.

[Chupacabra]

Immediately prior to the invasion of Poland, the British Chargé des Affaires in Berlin cabled back to the Foreign Office stating that one of the balconies in the British Embassy looked out over a hotel balcony from which Hitler often spoke, and that it would be a simple enough for one man with a rifle to assassinate him.

The British Foreign Office wrote back forbidding it, saying that it would be unsporting.

From 1933 onwards there were several assassination attempts which came very close to killing the man, which all ultimately failed.

Pity.

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[iggi]

Note: There are some disturbing pictures in the holocaust section but I think they are meant as a way of accepting that terrible things did happen. Therefore by presenting interesting facts about the wehrmacht with a section depicting the horrors of war, the negative shadow that trails behind is not ignored. The German war machine then is not glorified.

[Jumbo]

It be interesting to have German Heer troops battle against SS troops in a post asassination (CM) scenario as a historical what-if exercise.

[jasoncawley@ameritech.net]

Everyone knows about the bomb in the Wolf's Lair that almost got him, shattered his ear drums in fact. But few people know how many times it was attempted. One incident is related in Alan Clarke's "Barbarossa", about WW II on the eastern front (great history by the way).

British intel managed to get a bomb to a resistence German officer who managed to smuggle the bomb onto Hitler's plane when he was flying back from a trip to the Russian front - from Smolensk if I recall it right.

The officer got the bomb aboard by claiming it was a case of liquor he was sending home. When the plane arrived safely, he nervously retrieved the bomb (as his package)and found out what had happened, without being discovered. If the bomb had gone off, the miss in the Wolf's Lair could not have happened - it would have taken place at more than 10,000 feet and there would have been no chance of survivors.

The design was jury rigged to provide a timing mechanism. A clock was to release a sort of latch that let acid lose, to eat through a thin wire, which was holding back a spring pushing a nail, which served as the firing pin. The nail was to hit a percussion cap imbedded in the side of the explosive charge itself to set that off.

The clock worked, the latch released, the acid ate through the wire, the spring released the nail, the nail struck the percussion cap - which then did not go off. It was hit by the nail hard enough to dent it, but it just didn't detonate.