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THE DEFEAT OF THE THIRD REICH AND “OPERATION VALKYRIE”

THE DEFEAT OF THE THIRD REICH AND “OPERATION VALKYRIE”.

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THE DEFEAT OF THE THIRD REICH AND “OPERATION VALKYRIE”

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  1. THE DEFEAT OF THE THIRD REICH AND“OPERATION VALKYRIE” • Three events in June-July 1944 made it obvious to all that the Third Reich had lost the war: the liberation of Rome by the U.S. Army, the destruction of Germany’s Army Group Center in Belarus, and the Allied break-out from the Normandy bridgehead. • Judging that it need no longer fear a new “stab in the back” legend, the Conservative Resistance sought to assassinate Hitler and seize power in Berlin on July 20, 1944. • The defeat of the Stauffenberg Plot left Hitler’s authority unchallenged until the final conquest of Germany in April-May 1945.

  2. Carl Goerdeler and Gen. Ludwig Beck had sought since 1938 to persuade German generals to overthrow Hitler, but most of them replied that, as long as Germany won victories at the Front, any such attempt would be reviled by the German people as another “stab in the back.”

  3. That argument made little sense by June 1944….

  4. MUNICH IN FLAMES, JULY 13, 1944

  5. DOWNTOWN COLOGNE, EARLY 1945

  6. Citizens of Rome march for peace, July 26, 1943,the day after Mussolini was toppled Fighting breaks out between German and Italian troops in early September; by September 10 northern Italy was occupied by 17 German divisions.

  7. No rapid breakthrough was possible on the narrow Italian front.

  8. U.S. TROOPS LIBERATE ROME, JUNE 4, 1944

  9. The opposing forces

  10. U.S. troops debark from their landing craft to hit the beach

  11. The initial landings on D-Day, June 6, 1944

  12. The invasion was still contained on July 24

  13. The crucial break-out came just west of St. Lô in Operation Cobra, July 25-29, 1944

  14. On June 22, 1944, Germany’s 800,000-man Army Group Center was attacked by 2.3 million Red Army troops

  15. GERMAN POWs PARADED THROUGH MOSCOW, JULY 1944(Army Group Center lost 400,000 casualties)

  16. The Führer bunker in Rastenburg, East Prussia, after the explosion on July 20, 1944 Hitler tells Mussolini about his miraculous escape from death

  17. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who placed a bomb next to Hitler in the “Wolf’s Lair” on July 20, 1944, and then flew back to Berlin General Fritz Fromm had Stauffenberg shot that night but could not save himself thereby…

  18. GOERDELER AND FIELD MARSHALL ERWIN VON WITZLEBEN BEFORE THE “PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL,”BERLIN, AUGUST 1944

  19. THE EXECUTION CHAMBER AT PLÖTZENSEE PRISON(the deaths of those directly involved in the plot were filmed for Hitler’s private enjoyment) About 200 accused plotters were executed here

  20. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel agreed to commit suicide in October 1944 to avoid a trial for treason

  21. HITLER’S LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE, MARCH 20, 1945,to award medals to 14-year-olds fighting Red Army tanks

  22. THE LAST CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR IN EUROPE

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