the bomb plot, july 1944

In July 1944, a group of army officers tried to assassinate Hitler. A bomb was planted by Colonel Stauffenberg at a meeting attended by the Fuhrer. It exploded, but Hitler survived. In retaliation, Stauffenberg was shot the same day and 5,000 people were executed in the crackdown on opposition that followed. The great German general Field Marshal Erwin van Romell was implicated in the plot and was forced to commit suicide as punishment for his involvement.