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Hitler escapes a bomb in 1939...
Hitler escapes a bomb in 1939...
Item # 719211
November 09, 1939
JOURNAL AMERICAN, New York City, Nov. 9, 1939
* Adolph Hitler assassination attempt
* Pre Operation Valkyrie
* Bürgerbräukeller - George Elser
* FRONT LEAF ONLY (pages 1 & 2) ***
The top of the front page, above the masthead is a very nice banner headline for display: "ALL OF HITLER'S AIDES ESCAPE IN BLAST PLOT" with related photo. Coverage continues on page 2 with related pictorial showing Himmler, Hitler, Goebbels and more.
Although this is the front leaf only (pages 1 & 2), all relevant content is present. Light toning, a little wear at the margins and central fold, still nice for display as such.
history notes: On November 9, 1939, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Munich when a time bomb planted by German carpenter Georg Elser exploded in the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall only minutes after Hitler had departed. Elser, who opposed Nazi rule, had secretly hollowed out a column behind the speaker’s podium and spent weeks constructing and installing a sophisticated bomb timed to detonate during Hitler’s annual speech commemorating the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler unexpectedly ended his speech early, leaving at 9:07 p.m., and at 9:20 p.m. the bomb detonated, killing eight people and injuring more than sixty. Elser was captured the same night while attempting to flee to Switzerland, interrogated by the Gestapo, and imprisoned until he was executed at Dachau in April 1945. The attempt is remembered as one of the earliest and most carefully planned efforts to kill Hitler, which might have dramatically changed the course of the war had it succeeded.
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