Kill Hitler - The July Bomb Plot (Complete Series)
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- On 20 July 1944, a group of brave German officers tried to kill Hitler at his Eastern Front headquarters, the Wolf's Lair. In this audio series, we examine how the plot was developed and carried out, and why it failed.
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Source: 'Guarding Hitler' by Mark Felton, (Pen & Sword: 2014)
Von Stauffenberg’s ability to get out of the Wolf’s Lair after the blast is no small feat in its own right
They failed because they weren't willing to sacrifice themselves in the process
@@MagnusElpron They never could've succeed. See, Hitler was a werewolf and couldn't be killed by conventional means.
Didnt help him much I guess.
@@scockeryA silver bomb maybe..?
@@MagnusElpron
They failed because the meeting was moved from the basement bunker to and open room due to the hot weather
Then the brief case was moved to the other side of the heavy table leg
They didn’t want to sacrifice themselves to make sure the war was ended and not continued
Never confuse those who love only power for those who love their country.
Beware those leaders who demand personal loyalty to themselves over loyalty to your people.
Hitler did love his Reich, everything he did was for the Germanic peoples of Europe, look at Europe today compared with back then, we have gangs, lawlessness, knife and Gun gangs, paedophiles everywhere you look, shootings, car thefts bank robbing, train robbing, sexual predators everywhere, mass immigration drug addicts and dealers everywhere, under national socialism you wouldn't even see litter on the floor, let alone anything else.. I know which one id rather live under..
I dont recognises Europe today..
The story is arranged in a semi heroic way, but Stauffenberg was seemingly a coward too scared to take the backlash of directly confronting Hitler, and only sought power.
Easy to speak of things in hindsight. He did something, what would you have done?
@@jb7483 nothing. I wouldn’t be a brown nose of the Third Reich to be that high of a rank. Nor would I have the opportunity to be. You’re correct, in hindsight it’s obvious he’s a craven power seeker who desperately bit the ass he’d been brown nosing his entire career.
It's astonishing that there were 42 assassination attempts made against Hitler and they all failed. He had The Devil's Luck. The soldiers, Gersdorff and Van Dem Bussche, who in 1943 were willing to kill Hitler and sacrifice their lives in the process are the attempts that impress and move me the most. Both men survived the war.
I don't really believe in god or the devil but its funny how we say when good people evade assassinations, "It must be gods will", but when its bad people "Oh, it must be the devil". What if it was gods will that Hitler survived?
When my boss asks me why I went to the bathroom for 54 minutes and 1 second
Haha I just listen while I work with ear buds .
Sucks when your legs go to sleep.
And u answer wat? to jking off with disney cartoons?
@@martinswiney2192Sucks worse when you get up
@@unnamedchannel1237 same
The other night I had a dream where Emperor Hirohito was still alive and was on a podcast speaking perfect english
I can confirm. I was the host of the podcast
@@Ussonan-Foderation2016 I was part of the cast of the podcast
What did he say?
He was talking about his episode of Hot Ones?
Stop smoking so much weed.
The last thing a Mark Felton video needs is TH-cam’s idiotic context box.
History along with intelligence ended about 1991.
Thanks TH-cam for the " Topical context in information panel" note on Hitler.
I'm sure Mark Felton is just as surprised on that fact as I am.
TH-cam likes to insult true historians with wikipedia crap
i think we can trust Dr Felton more for our context around Hitler than any resource You Tube might provide.
Wikipedia fails to mention SS Charlemagne though. who fought to the death outside the bunker
I know cringe
How ridiculous that TH-cam has placed a Wikipedia article about the death of Hitler at the top of this page "for needed context."
Like... we see you're about to dine at a Michelin 5-star restaurant. But first we need you to read this McDonald's tray liner, to make sure you are aware of important "context."
The best is 3-star Michelin. I take your point, but several more layers of nuance result from your unintentional blunder.
@geraint8989 well done! Yes I'm more of a KFC diner myself. It all looks much the same 24 hours later..
Who cares, I wouldn’t have even known it is there if it wasn’t for your comment.
@@geraint8989
This restaurant is obviously just extra fancy /j
@@richardmayes8797tbf if we were really talking food here I’d take KFC over fine dining anyday
My grandfather single handedly destroyed over a dozen tanks in North Africa. He was the worst mechanic in the whole Wehrmacht….
I saw you posting this exact comment before
True, but he's trying to follow in his grandfather's foot steps. He isn't a mechanic though, he's a TH-cam comment writer & is doing a great job of posting crappie comments. So, although no tanks were damaged he's still making a right mess by repeatedly posting the same comment many times over!😂🤣😂
Let's talk about my grandfather. He was an ordinary US citizen and not especially privileged, but he was Otto von Bismarck's great-grandson. He was a WW2 US soldier when the enemy who was ironically German ambushed his platoon with gunfire. All other 16 platoon members were instantly killed but my grandpa escaped without a scratch.
I'm beginning to think nepotism spared my grandpa's life. The attack on his platoon was astonishingly precise to have happened so fast and furiously. Of course, this also means that Hitler had foreknowledge of his enemy's movements. He knew their name, rank, serial number and what they had for breakfast in advance. The soldiers were mere pawns on the government's chessboard, more so blacks like myself whose ownership were the ultimate object of these big wars.
Which brings me to another topic. My grandpa in no way resembled me. However there's one photo of him in WW2 military attire where he looks EXACTLY like me. In that snapshot he looks androgynous and his nose is more flattened than usual to give him a rather ethnic look. I wonder if this unconscious shapeshifting talent was not somehow inherited from Bismarck. And I wonder if it is not responsible for Hitler's 9 lives. Don't point out that Bismarck and Hitler were 2 entirely different people. I'm not hearin' it.
Also, Hitler was native to Austria, not Germany. Despite Hitler's overt identification with Germany's working class, the Austrian people were historically far more elite than the Germans. I think he was secretly seething with contempt for the Germans, which is why he allegedly treated Eva Braun like a dog. His latest alter ego married a supremely highly educated American heiress of Chinese descent. (The Chinese are amongst the richest and best-educated ethnic groups in America, and his wife is exemplary even by these standards.) As with America's snubbery of black veterans in the GI Bill, class/socioeconomic allegiances took precedence over formal wartime alliances in the end. Far and away.
I really hope you start doing some World War I videos as well. It is so overlooked, especially when World War II doesn’t happen without World War I. World War I is the original calamity of the 20th century from which almost all other calamities for the next hundred years draw a direct line from
He has a bunch of them in his videos section. It will take some scrolling to find them but they're there.
Without WW2 there would not be a WW1.
@@dustylover100 thanks man. Yeah, I definitely didn’t find them easily LOL.
Gone are the days where mark responds
Maybe on the other channel
The Bendlerblock still stands, and there is a memorial to von Stauffenberg where he was shot.
I used to own Friedrich Olbricht's daughter's wedding photo album. There were some great images of the general with all his medals and Knights Cross.
I hear the kids today are fond of that bohemian corporal.
I hope you scanned those photos!
@@TalkernateHistoryyes I scanned them all. Sold the album on eBay last year. I should’ve taken it to the show of shows instead!
From all the real filming I have seen, AH's injuries were much worse than they were letting on. Look how he aged so quickly, limped, and had trouble moving his arms. Who knows what it might have done to his mental faculties.
True but some of that was all the meth he was on.
Joe Biden said that he was there too. And he is also suffering from the blast. He needs help down one step, rambles on, and poops himself.
But it was a BOMB that killed people right by him so the damage may have been worse than meth
Yes. He very well might have been brain-damaged.
But by this time, in my estimation, his heavy drug use was beginning to affect him seriously. He was being fed a constant diet of amphetamines by his personal physician.
@@Storm-lg4mx - Same symptoms that Joe Biden has. He probably will say that he was at that meeting too.
Excellent, thank you. I've wondered about this topic. It is such a treat to have this in depth segment.
More FANTASTIC commentary from Mark.
Perhaps Dr. Felton and Dr. Stephen Kotkin could team up to trade some Stalin notes for our benefit of knowledge.
I wish to recall Erwin von Witzleben's speech after being found guilty at the trial:
"You can turn us over to the executioner. In three months the outraged and tormented people will call you to account and drag you through the filth in the streets alive."
The judge, Roland Freisler, died in an 8th Air Force raid, on February 8th, 1945
When "Schindler's List' was being made, some townspeople near the filming admitted that they missed the security of the camp guards.
@@ronaldfinkelstein6335that guy was a piece of work, just seen some of the trial, holy shit.
@@ronaldfinkelstein6335 karma return
@@ronaldfinkelstein6335 killed when a pillar fell onto him during the bombing
Great video Mark I thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt a lot about the July plot from it! Thank you for uploading it
Great audio narrative (as ALWAYS)!
Such an amazing story...ive been listening to Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" again lately, and this part of the story never gets old
INCREDIBLE book! His diary is very interesting, as well.
The Wikipedia pop-up is laughable for a video like this. 😂
Absolutely... insulting
@@debbiestyer453 Welcome to our post-truth civilization.
I was wondering about that. I'd the pop up something that TH-cam auto generated ? Or, is it part of the video original design ?
@@obergruppenfuhrersang-froi8203 The former.
People today, don't realize the strength Oaths had on earlier generations. Violating your Oath was Treason, and Treason is not an act one takes lightly for those of Von Stauffenberg's generaration, or those older than him.
It takes a brave man/woman to violate one's oath.
Well in that case be careful who or what you swear an oath to then… The oath seemed rock solid whilst the war appeared to be going well.
Staufenbergs brother berthold was hanged then revived multiple times not a fun fact
And his execution, resuscitations, and subsequent stranglings filmed for Hitler to view at his pleasure.
Fascinating , very well done. These videos quite intriguing thankyou
Wow, only Albert Speer seemed normal in the room.
If any Nazi can be described as 'normal'.
It was supposed to be a hot day, but those inspecting the ruined conference hut later were all wearing heavy overcoats. Likewise, when Hitler greeted Mussolini at the train that afternoon, everyone was wearing coats and jackets. Did someone tip off those in charge that the hut with windows open was safer than the bunker which was fully enclosed?
Probably wearing coat to try to hide injuries suffered in the blast. His movements looked stiff, arm looked stiff and when he was greeted by the Italians he did an unusual hand shake. He looked shaken.
Yeah! Mr Felton! Love the channel! Greetings from Finland!
sorry for your loss outside Leningrad. this must be a tough subject for the Finnish people. the loss of their leader
@@SlavaBanderastan troll away!
Girls when they get rejected by art school: *dramatic crying*
Boys when they get rejected by art school:
Mark deserves more subscribers than Mr Beast 💯.
I wonder what exciting merchandising Mark Felton could offer?
While I agree, Mark does not give to charity like Mr. Beast does. Mr. Beast should be commended
I'd enjoy a mark Felton chocolate bar haha!
@@brenttrotter88biscuits anyone?
@@brenttrotter88better than Viagra?
Damn oak table
Mark Felton has always interesting WWII stories thanks to his research
TH-cam is at it again fact checking a military historian
Well done, as always.
Great video Mark! Thank you
the "piano wire" was not an actual piano wire, but was a colloquialism among the Nazi police formations which meant a thin nylon rope!!
Yes - and supposedly filmed, but apparently no known film exists of these brutal executions.
This is the ultimate definition of "table side service."
- Stauffenberg
You tube are the modern day equivalent of BOOK burners..
The thought police taking your comments down if they dont like the point your trying to make, yes that is book burning/deleting.. same thing..
@@studio2165
Sound dumb 😂
"Nobodys briefcase was searched"...why not?
I didnt know you had another channel with longer form videos :D Less go.
Yeah, Von Stauffenberg was so deeply christian and concerned about well being of all innocent people that he hadn't had any problems with Germany brutally invading countries like Poland, Norway, Belgium, Denmark etc, and strangely only turned against natzis when it became obvious in 1943 that they are loosing the war badly.
Brilliant! Thanks for that!
I've often wondered if one of AH's body doubles actually died & that is how he managed to escape death? AH certainly had a lucky run of avoiding some 13 documented attempts on his life. Ironically AH's participation ended up assisting the Allies victory & assassination attempts were put on hold as his bad decisions were more beneficial.
There were no body doubles.
No matter how all of us Monday morning QB’s say “they should have” it didn’t happen. So history is history and we will never know the “what if”.
even a guy with 1 eye and 1 arm isn't willing to die to ensure the plot works - it never had any chance.
What would dying prove?
The Italian Air Force Kamakazee division had a reunion at my Restaurant. There was full attendance
I was just watching your Italian history playlist whilst doing chores. It's great timing for me that you dropped a new video. Thanks, my brother.
Wow doc your timing is always crazy
I've just returned from the Wolfslare.
My guide said (as I exited Der Führers bunker)
Is the Boss in there?
No I replied. He's up there!
Dr. Mark,
Many thanks for your definitive account of the July 20th bomb plot against Hitler. Two points really stand out for me-firstly how much fate and chance played a part in the asassination attempt-warm weather conditions determining the site of the conference, large wooden table in the meeting-room, adjutant moving the briefcase etc. Secondly how much history might have been changed if Von Stauffenberg had gone ahead with his attempt on Hitler's life some days earlier at Berchesgaden.
This is real Mark Felton
Dr. Felton, you are the only historian that I pay any attention to on YT.
Please would you not declare that people ‘win’ medals. War is not a foot race. Recipients EARN the medals that they are recipients of.
Keep up your excellent work and I’ll trust that you’ll make the necessary adjustments. Thank you.
Surley an athlete earns his medal by being in front etc. They are synonyms.
Superb as always 👍
"Vorsehung!" (Providence) said Hitler, with an reverential index finger pointed upwards.
Babe wake up, mark felton uploaded
Fun fact... we landed on the moon 25 years to the day of the July 20 bomb plot
If only the Germans were as good at killing hitler as they were at putting a person on the moon on.
Werner Von Braun
That is absolutely correct!!!
@@reeyees50 And James Webb and John Houboult and Neil Armstrong.
Oh my goodness……
Right on time while starting my dinner.
Thank you Mark!!!!
Talk about timing. I just watched Valkyrie.
An excellent movie!
those years are not far enough from present.
Thanks you Sir for this excellent Bomb Plot to kill Hitler video.....
Old F-4 II Pilot Shoe🇺🇸
Could this become a podcast? I'c love to listen to these on my regular drives through the usual podcast services.
Major Otto Günsche was not with Hitler during the assassination attempt as presented here I think his autobiography gives a real first hand account of the plot ( not discrediting this narrative).
The big mistake was not setting both explosives...His fear caused him to feel that further delay while setting the bomb would cause suspicion...It would not have caused suspicion.
Watching this July 2024. That 80 years since July 1944 went by fast. Great video Dr. Felton.
Sadly, we learned nothing.
Thank you Dr. Felton for everything you have done and will undoubtedly do for future Generations of curious Historians. It's endlessly ironic to me me that Adolf, was the only one to kill Hitler.
Comment of the year . Brilliant final sentence. Only wish I had thought of it . For Pete’s sake I MEAN BRILLIANT .!! Take a bow .!! And take care .!! Joey in Pennsylvania
The movie Valkyrie was great and they did a ton of research on this event for it. My only question is why didn't Claus Von Stauffenberg just arm one of the explosives and put it in the same bag with the unarmed explosive? I'm pretty sure that if one went off the other would have went with it. Historians have asked that questions for years now.
Would a successful plot have made the difference though? There was a good book written after the war where all the okw staff discussed what unconditional surrender meant and practically all of the military was against dividing Germany. I cant remember who was the name of the author but it was a brit which had one of his sons KIA. However, it was clear that at the Tehran conference and the prior conferences, dividing Germany was a given almost like it was decided in 1941/42.
Mark , this is a pricless narration. Thankyou for doing it.
Brilliant story mark….
👍 Thanks. I appreciate this.
Friedrich Olbrich learning Von stauffenberg did not to sacrifice himself in the operation... Was as off as Rudolf Hess flight to Scotland
Excellent war story series Doctor Felton!
Stauffenberg assumed Hitler was dead.....
"Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups"
I never, never understood two things about this attempt on Hitler's life:
1. That it was Stauffenberg and not von Haeften, who activated the charge. It would have been a lot quicker if von Haeften had done it.
2. The extra lb of explosive was not put together with the other charge in the briefcase. Would it not have exploded anyway?
It is indeed a matter of conjecture, what would have happened had the attempt succeeded.
Why on earth did you get a blue misinformation banner on this one?!?!?!?
I met, became friends with, and did some business with Von Stauffenberg’s great nephew though I haven’t been in contact with him for quite a few years. He is very low key and has dropped the formal “Von” before his name although he is technically a “Graf” which is a minor royal title. He is quite successful in his chosen field.
People really succumb to 'hypnotic magnetism'?
I visited the Wolf's Lair years ago but the Bendlerblock only this April. A powerful resistance museum. Love that nowadays it proudly stands on the Stauffenbergstraße. 🙂
Would love to see a video about Private Henry Tandey’s run in with Hitler near Marcoing in WW1. He had him at gunpoint but Hitler was just a wounded unarmed soldier so Tandey let him go. With regrets years later.
Wikipedia confuses those who want photos
General Franz Halder standing to Hitler’s left, I believe.
The Allies were not going to accept Germany’s surrender, with or without Hitler. The goal was to prevent WWIII.
But world war II was still going on, cmon what kinds logic is this😂
@@reeyees50 Internet logic, beginning early 1990s
@reeyees50 a truce with Germany at this point would have just given them time to rebuild. The allies wanted to end the german threat once and for all, and they did. It worked
Excellent.
There were two bombs. Stauffenberg used only one and did not leave the other in the briefcase, which would have doubled the explosive power. This was a major mistake. Success did not require any more risk or preparation to leave twice the explosive. The explosion of one block would have detonated the other one. It did not require the second detonator. The senior officers were not sufficiently familiar with their weapon.
I heard in a documentary he was in the bathroom urgently trying to set the second bomb but another officer was banging on the door urging him to get out so he had to finish prematurely with the one bomb ready. Twist of fate.
Second picture you can clearly see Adolf Heusinger, just right to Hitler, later on Generalinspekteur of the German Bundeswehr, who got serious injuries there.
Have you considered a video on the King David Hotel bombing?
Dang this is cool they should make a movie about this
"Valkyrie." Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, and Kenneth Branagh.
(I get the feeling you're kidding.)❤
He would have accomplished the job if he wasn't so worried about saving himself. Why is this coward so lionized when he completely botched the whole thing?
If Brandt died, how do people know that he moved the briefcase? Did he had a chance to tell that before he died the next day, or did somebody saw him move the briefcase (which I doubt).
Which you doubt, therefore you adjust reality.
I wonder if any pictures of the mysterious RSD bodyguard chief Johann Rattenhuber have ever been published?
Fromm was not as bad as it seemed. He assured the conspirators were executed, while Hitler's plan most certainly included a substantial amount of torture... and then execution.
The one thing I have never understood is that not a single German, military or civilian, was willing to give his life to kill Hitler. Stauffenberg, for example, could have shot Hitler on many occasions and even if firearms were prohibited the briefcase with the bomb could have as easily contained a pistol. Failing that all officers wore a ceremonial dagger, a lethal weapon in its own right.
Yeah but you forget how sloppy that plan would be. You need guaranteed power into the right hands so they could end the war
There was at least one suicide attempt by a junior-officer(v.Gersdorf) ,but it failed because it was dependend on a time-fuse and Hitler left the place much earlier than expected. With handgrenades or with modern ignition devices it would have been probably successful.
@@robertwilliam865 Had Hitler been killed Stauffenberg could well have succeeded. It was only the Berlin garrison commander being able to speak to Hitler that stopped them.
After what was accomplished, why would they?
You would not sacrifice your life either.
I knew a Lithuanian Psychology professor who told me that Hitler was NOT at Wolf's Lair, it was a body double. Why he believed that I don't know, but he was quite adamant that the real Hitler could not have survived the bomb blast. Anyway, I am fascinated with the show trial presided by Roland Freisler. I have watched brief clips with English subtitles, but mostly it is all in German. Does anyone know of a complete film footage of the July 1944 conspirators with English subtitles? I have read that Freisler used extreme language to attack the defendants.A couple of other questions I have. How does anyone know that the briefcase was moved? Also, the execution of the guilty officers hanged by piano wires from meat hooks was filmed. I read that OSS head "Wild Bill" Donovan stated that the film existed. Does anyone know of any clips of the film exists? I would love to watch it to see how gruesome it really was.
Hi Mark. Have you thought about slowing releasing these compilations out on DVD.. with maybe a accompanying book of photography. A few of my friends make skate videos and magazines it’s surprisingly cheap. I for one would love to have a hard copy. Please consider it. Cheers from Melbourne au
Where did von Stauffenberg get the British pencil bomb from anyway? Did he have contact with British intelligence?
The Germans copied the design, dolt. Use your head.
Zoomer historian is also a very good channel to check out about these topics.
I don't know about anyone else, but I trust the Wikipedia community note more than world renowned historian Mark Felton.
80 years ago today
Enjoyed series computer got hacked
had the plot succeeded,the plotters would have still failed.The SS would have taken over the government and the war effort,with possibly a different outcpme
They only tried to kill him because the war was lost. They all would have celebrated and looked for career advancement is Russia had fell to the mighty German army.😂
Thankyou for your content mr Felton. My history knowledge is always expanded by such video. I took a trip to Berlin last year to see many of the places that you mentioned. Thanks again.
Sir. You advocated, on one of your videos, for the removal of a memorial to W V Braun. I love history and I'm shocked that somebody as esteemed as you would want such a thing. History must be kept.
You don’t learn history from memorials. You know who Hitler was, right? How many of his memorials have you seen?
@@user-ov1qf5xz7u your attempt at an argument requires refinement.
Does anyone really think that nasa wouldn’t have made it to the moon without that filthy war criminal? His memorial should be filled with the names of all the slaves he worked to their deaths in his mittalwerks!!!
You realize that the whole point was how our government conviently ignored or covered up ex axis war crimes as long as it served our purpose. So in fact by memorializing these men we are already changing history.
Your thinking is just lazy.