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Overview
- Summary
- Describes how an average citizen of Munich secretly assembled and detonated a bomb intended to kill Adolf Hitler during a 1939 speech and the would-be assassin's attempted escape to Switzerland before ending his life in a concentration camp.
- Uniform Title
- Hitler jag' ich in die Luft. English
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., [2013]
©2013 - Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Hitler speaks under a ticking time bomb
The assassin is foiled at the border
The explosion
Searching the rubble
Reaction to the attack
The evidence mounts
From Königsbronn to Berlin
Confession and interrogation
Cult of death : the official ceremony of November 11
The search for the instigators
Assassinville
Elser's youth and working years in Königsbronn
A freer life at Lake Constance
Back to Königsbronn
Assassination : the decision
The preparations
Night work in the Bürgerbräukeller
In the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen
The end in Dachau
The long road to recognition. - Notes
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Translation of: Den Hitler jag' ich in die Luft.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226).
Hitler speaks under a ticking time bomb -- The assassin is foiled at the border -- The explosion -- Searching the rubble -- Reaction to the attack -- The evidence mounts -- From Königsbronn to Berlin -- Confession and interrogation -- Cult of death : the official ceremony of November 11 -- The search for the instigators -- Assassinville -- Elser's youth and working years in Königsbronn -- A freer life at Lake Constance -- Back to Königsbronn -- Assassination : the decision -- The preparations -- Night work in the Bürgerbräukeller -- In the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen -- The end in Dachau -- The long road to recognition.
Translated from the German.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616087418
1616087412 - Physical Description
- 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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