The assassination plan, also known as "Valkyrie", was led by Colonel Stauffenberg, and the participants were Marshal Witzleben, General Beck, Admiral Hepner, Gedler, Colonel Kielheim, Father Thalp, etc.
The failure of this plan directly led to the death of all those involved.
Why did the seemingly seamless plan fail?
This begins with the main officer of the incident, Stauffenberg, who was originally a loyal admirer of Hitler. For the sake of their common ideals, Stauffenberg fought bravely on the battlefield, even losing an arm and an eye. This dedication to the reich was recognized by Hitler, who appointed him chief of staff of the home corps.
But as he got deeper, he discovered that Germany was no longer the Germany he had imagined, that he had witnessed the massacres of the SS and the horrors of the concentration camps, and that it was time for Germany to make some changes, or germany would be destroyed at Hitler's hands. A great change in thinking led to the birth of the "Valkyrie" project.
In 1944, Stauffenberg received a message from Wolfburg asking him to come to Wolfburg at 1 p.m. the next day to report to Hitler on his mission. This opportunity can be described as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, after all, Wolf Castle is heavily guarded, with three layers inside and three layers outside, and if you want to go in, you have to face layers of screening.
And Stauffenberg's image as a national hero, the searchers did not pay much attention to him.
After all, no one would have thought that such a Hitler "fanatic" would be an assassin. He made an appointment with the director of communications, Phil Kiber, to cut off all communication facilities in the "Wolf's Den" as soon as he heard the bomb, leaving it isolated from the world.
If both bombs had been detonated successfully, Hitler would have been doomed. However, due to time and body, I only had time to prepare one.
This bomb design is particularly interesting, one end is filled with acid filled with a copper wire, in order to start it only need to use pliers to crack the tube, the solution inside will automatically corrode the copper wire, after the copper wire breaks, the firing pin will hit the detonator under spring pressure, detonating explosives.
Although there was no fragment of this explosive, considering the closedness of the bunker, the light shock wave could also shock Hitler to death. However, people are not as good as heaven, because to meet Mussolli, the report time is not only an hour earlier, but also the location of the meeting is changed from a bunker to a ventilated cabin. This completely disrupted Tetaufenberg's plans.
The arrow had to be fired on the string, and Stauffenberg finally decided to complete the assassination according to the set task.
Because he had left his belt and military hat in the locker room beforehand, on the way to the conference room, he used the excuse of meeting Kate that he needed to go back and dress. Taking advantage of this gap, he installed a time bomb, and the other had to be abandoned at Kate's urging. Because of his physical disability, he had a very difficult time installing explosives, and finally in order to avoid suspicion, he had to give up the second explosive. Stauffenberg himself felt that if properly placed, a kilogram of explosives would be enough to kill Hitler.
At this time, Hitler was discussing the situation on the Eastern Front with several officers, and he did not expect that an assassination was taking place against him.
Stauffenberg quietly walked over to Hitler and sat down, placing the handbag containing the explosives under the conference table. In order to ensure lethality, he also deliberately kicked the bag in the direction of Hitler with his foot. Then, on the pretext of answering the phone, he walked out of the conference room. In his opinion, everything has been successful, and he is about to receive the title of national hero.
However, the dream was only a dream after all, and a minute later, there was an explosion from the cabin, and debris was everywhere. Stauffenberg, thinking that Hitler could not die again, happily hummed a little song and drove away.
Although the explosion did cause casualties, for Hitler it was only the loss of an ear, and soon after Staufenberg had placed the handbag and left, an officer moved it to the farthest corner from Hitler, suspecting that the handbag was in the way. As a result, the bomb exploded and killed only three officers and a stenographer. The rest of the power was resisted by this hard table. Here I have to say that the quality of the things made by the Germans is good.
The natural anger of the provoked Hitler ordered the arrest of all those involved in the incident and the execution of them all in order to vent his hatred.
The failure of the operation led to the arrest of thousands of people, including Marshal Rommel, one of Germany's three most famous marshals. It was because Stauffenberg did not have the courage to die with him and missed the opportunity, which was the reason for the failure of the assassination.