Killing Hitler (63 page)

Lev Knipper: an artful agent.

Hitler with Olga Tschechowa: flirting with danger.

The Osteria Bavaria in Munich, scene of Moscow’s first aborted plot.

Hitler’s
Wehrwolf
HQ at Vinnitsa in the Ukraine: a target for the partisans and the NKVD.

THE NOBLEST OF GERMANS: THE ASSASSINS OF THE
WEHRMACHT

Henning von Tresckow

Rudolf von Gersdorff

Georg von Boeselager

Axel von dem Bussche

Eberhard von Breitenbuch

Fabian von Schlabrendorff

Hitler visiting Army Group Centre at Smolensk in March 1943: another lucky escape.

Hitler speaking at the Berlin Armoury in 1944, where he would be targeted by history’s first ‘suicide bomber’.

Claus von Stauffenberg: the most famous of Hitler’s would-be assassins, but in truth one of many.

Stauffenberg (
left
) meeting Hitler at Rastenburg in July 1944, five days before his attempt.