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Originally posted by honeychile
OMIGOSH!!!! You are the very first person who has ever brought this up to me!! I've been working on a screenplay on the July 20, 1944 plot for over a year, and I'm amazed how many people don't even know about the various plots to kill Hitler!
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One of my 'hobbies' is military history, World War II in particular.
Bit of trivia you can use: the street in which the German War Ministry in Berlin was located was once known as the Bendlerstrasse. After the war, it was renamed after Graf von Stauffenberg (the ringleader of the bomb plot), as Stauffenbergstrasse.
Generalfeldmarschall Rommel had no direct part in the bomb plot, though he was seriously considered in the running for a post in the new government, had the bomb plot succeeded. He was caught up in Hitler's revenge after the bomb plot, possibly because he was increasingly becoming more popular than Hitler. So, Rommel was given a choice: take cyanide and be given a hero's funeral or have him and his family suffer through a People's Court, the only sentence given being death.
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