Berlin, Germany • March 21, 1943 Adolf Hitler was the target of assassins on at least 30 occasions. On this date in 1943 in the German Reich’s capital, Berlin, Army officers made the second of 2 attempts in March to kill Hitler with a bomb. The week before, 2 staff officers had planted a bomb aboard Hitler’s private…
Berlin, Germany · March 21, 1943 Adolf Hitler was the target of assassins on at least 30 occasions. On this date in 1943 in Berlin, German army officers made the second of two attempts in March to kill Hitler with a bomb. The week before, two staff officers had planted a bomb aboard Hitler’s private plane….
Berlin, Germany · January 16, 1945 On this date in 1945 Adolf Hitler moved his entourage into the Fuehrerbunker under the Old Reich Chancellery in Berlin, where he lived and directed the last months of the war in Europe. The “Leader’s bunker”—a maze of living quarters, conference rooms, offices, and utilities spreading 2 stories deep…
Stalingrad, Soviet Union · January 10, 1943 On this date in 1943 the Soviets launched Operation Ring, their name for the action that tightened the noose around the 250,000-plus soldiers of the German Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad (now Volgograd). Operation Ring had been preceded by Operation Uranus (November 19–23, 1942), a one-million-man-plus Soviet offensive targeting…
Berlin, Germany · March 21, 1943 Adolf Hitler was the target of assassins on at least 30 occasions. On this date in 1943 in Berlin, German army officers made the second of two attempts in March to kill Hitler with a bomb. The week before, two staff officers had planted a bomb aboard Hitler’s private plane….
Berlin, Germany · January 16, 1945 On this date in 1945 Adolf Hitler moved his entourage into the “Fuehrer Bunker” under the Old Reich Chancellery in Berlin, where he lived and directed the last months of the war in Europe. The bunker—a maze of living quarters, conference rooms, offices, and utilities spreading two stories deep…
Stalingrad, Soviet Union · January 10, 1943 On this date in 1943 the Soviets launched Operation Ring, their name for the action that tightened the noose around the 250,000-plus soldiers of the German Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad (now Volgograd). Operation Ring had been preceded by Operation Uranus (November 19–23, 1942), a one-million-man-plus Soviet offensive…