The 20 July plot was an attempt by a group of German officers and civilians to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg placed a briefcase containing a bomb under a conference table at the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia, now in Poland, and then left. The explosion killed several people but Hitler survived with minor injuries, protected by the heavy table. In Berlin the conspirators began a coup by using Operation Valkyrie, a plan for an emergency, but it collapsed within hours, and Stauffenberg and others were shot that night. Thousands of people were arrested in the reprisals that followed, and many, including Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, died.
Before and after
- from 15 June 1944 to 9 July 1944Battle of Saipan
- from 22 June 1944 to 29 August 1944Operation Bagration
- from 25 June 1944 to 1 July 1944Operation Martlet
- 4 July 1944Founding of World Bank Group
- 20 July 194420 July plot
- 22 July 1944Bretton Woods system
- from 22 July 1944 to 31 December 1989Polish People's Republic
- 22 July 1944Founding of International Monetary Fund
- from 24 July 1944 to 1 August 1944Battle of Tinian
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