(December 13, 2018 at 9:01 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:Hitler was in power from 1933 to 1945. In all that time there were only 5 attempts on his life. One was by a foreign student. One was by a former KDP member. The other 3 were attempts by his own officers in the latter part of WW2. That doesn't like there was a whole lot of dissent...
Wikipedia lists (and sources) at least 25 attempts on Hitler's life from '33 to '44. That breaks down to about one every 21 weeks.
Boru
Yes, Wikipedia cites 25 attempts on Hitler's life. It appears that many of the instances listed in the Wiki suffered from such poor enough planning that the actual attempts were never made. That makes them "failed plots" not "assassination attempts".
One planned to shoot Hitler at a meeting he wasn't allowed to go to. At least one is a claim that there was a plot made, but there is no evidence and no details of how the assassination was supposed to take place. Someone wanted to blow him up with a suicide vest but was wounded in combat and never had the opportunity to make the attempt. Another person wanted to use that same suicide vest at an event that was continually postponed until it was finally cancelled. One of the "assassination attempts" listed in your Wiki was actually just a grandious plot to arrest Hitler, not kill him. Etc., etc.
That Wiki seems to be a little padded, or the authors don't know the actual differences between a plan, a plot, and an attempt. I was referencing a History Channel article about the 6 attempts that were actually made and had also had the potential to really kill Hitler. Perhaps some of the other "attempts" in that Wiki were made, but considering the low bar they've set I don't really feel it's worth the effort to wade through them all.
Regardless, I also want to make a correction that no one appears to have caught. I wrote in an earlier post that Hitler was in firmly power from 1933 until his death in 1945. Then I incorrectly wrote that as 22 years instead of 12. My bad.