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Koenigsbronn, Germany - The German hometown of a man who narrowly failed to assassinate dictator Adolf Hitler on Sunday erected a monument to honour Georg Elser and his lonely courage.
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Georg Elser who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1939.
signandsight.com 2009
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Georg Elser who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1939.
signandsight.com 2009
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It's worth reading to get a sense of how different von Stauffenberg's perspective was from that of Georg Elser whom I posted about recently.
Irish Blogs 2009
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Georg Elser who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1939.
signandsight.com 2009
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Georg Elser who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1939.
signandsight.com 2009
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Georg Elser who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1939.
signandsight.com 2009
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Berlin - A memorial went up Wednesday in Berlin to a German, Georg Elser, who tried single-handedly to halt the Second World War in November 1939 by blowing up Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his top aides.
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"In 1939, just two months after Hitler had invaded Poland to start World War II, the Bürgerbräukeller became the scene of an assassination attempt that nearly ended the Hitler nightmare. Over a two-month period, wording at night after the beer hall was closed, a clever carpenter named Georg Elser, who wanted to 'improve the conditions of the workers and avoid a war,' had installed a time-delayed explosive into a support column right behind the Bürgerbräukeller speaker's podium. Elser knew that Hitler always spoke for at least one hour, beginning at 8:30 p.m. The bombmaker set his device to detonate at 9:20 p.m. But, because the Munich airport that night was socked in by fog, Hitler began his speech early, at 8 p.m. After speaking for an hour and seven minutes, he left the Bürgerbräukeller at 9:07 p.m. to catch a train back to Berlin. Thirteen minutes later, Elser's bomb ripped through the beer hall, killing eight people and wounding sixty. The spot where Hitler had been standing thirteen minutes earlier was devastated. 'Those thirteen minutes were the most costly in the history of the twentieth century,' wrote German author Claus Christian Malzahn. The Bürgerbräukeller is now gone, a victim of wartime bombing, neglect, and urban development. All that remains is a plaque on the spot where the support column stood, commemorating Georg Elser."
--Peter Ross Range, 1924: The Year that Made Hitler (NY and London: Little, Brown and Co., 2016), p. 267
January 4, 2017