I promised you that this blog would not always be about Bulgaria, or some of my peculiar other interests.In order to prove that here is just a little mention of an anniversary, on this date.
On July 20th 1944 anti-Nazi conspirators tried to blow up Adolf Hitler at his Prussian HQ at Rastenburg otherwise known as the 'Wolfs Lair'.They failed because the bomb was pushed to the other side of a table leg from Hitler, and he escaped with nothing more than shock and shredded trousers.
The fate of the conspirators was anything as rosy, they were hunted down, tortured, and executed, in some cases being hung by piano wire.Here is a picture of the chief conspirator, Count Claus Von Stauffenberg.Among the other conspirators was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (otherwise known as the Desert Fox).
The actions of these men could have ended the war months earlier, and saved millions of lives, and I suppose, if you are a German they are the closest thing you have to a hero from WWII.
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