WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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It might have saved the lives of 5 million Germans who died in the last nine months of the war.
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It might have led to the deaths of 5 million Germans who died in the last nine months of the war.
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It might have saved the lives of 5 million Soviets who died in the last nine months of the war.
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It might have led to the death of 5 million Soviets who died in the last nine months of the war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unfortunately, the most well-known assassination plot on Hitler’s life, popularly known as the July Plot or Operation Valkyrie, proved unsuccessful for reasons that could have been avoided, and others that are unexplained to this day.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf’s Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 20, 1944, Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him. High-ranking German officials had made up their minds that Hitler must die. He was leading Germany in a suicidal war on two fronts, and assassination was the only way to stop him.
Detailed explanation-4: -By this time Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler had taken charge of the situation and had issued orders countermanding Olbricht’s mobilisation of Operation Valkyrie. This led to the failure of the coup, with most of the commanding officers learning that Hitler was alive and cancelling their operations.