The Unauthorized History
History is whatever we say it is... & what a long strange trip it continues to be.
It’s Hitler with Claus von Stauffenberg (on the left).
Unlike most people featured on this site, Stauffenberg wasn’t fawning over Hitler, but attempting to kill him. He was the driving force behind the plot to assassinate him - on July 20 1944, he entered a briefing room that Hitler was in carrying a briefcase armed with two bombs. He left the briefcase under the table, as close to Hitler as he could manage, made an excuse and left. Unfortunately for Stauffenberg (and all the people Hitler killed in 1945), after he left Colonel Heinz Brandt moved it to the other side of the table in order to get a better look at a map. When the bomb went off, killing four people and wounding many more, Hitler himself was protected by the conference table and only slightly wounded.
Stauffenberg was, of course, executed.
Incidentally, Brandt himself died the next day from injuries caused by the bomb. Probably should have just squinted a bit harder at that map, Brandt.
