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0702224 - The Fuehrer with Benito Mussolini and high ranking German authorities and officers at the conference held soon after the plot on Hitler's life. Left to right: Doenitz , Ribbentrop (back view), Hitler , Bormann . On right hand side Mussolini talks to Goering . The assassination attempt on Hitler was at 12.42pm on 20th July 1944 at Hitler's "Wolf's Lair" HQ. Bomb planted in a briefcase and left under a table by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, aged 37, a disaffected general staff officer whose experience of SS atrocities in Russia convinced him of the evils of Nazism.
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![The Fuehrer with Benito Mussolini and high ranking German authorities and officers at the conference held soon after the plot on Hitler's life. Left to right: Doenitz , Ribbentrop (back view), Hitler , Bormann . On right hand side Mussolini talks to Goering . The assassination attempt on Hitler was at 12.42pm on 20th July 1944 at Hitler's "Wolf's Lair" HQ. Bomb planted in a briefcase and left under a table by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, aged 37, a disaffected general staff officer whose experience of SS atrocities in Russia convinced him of the evils of Nazism.](../images/prevs/0702224.jpg "The Fuehrer with Benito Mussolini and high ranking German authorities and officers at the conference held soon after the plot on Hitler's life. Left to right: Doenitz , Ribbentrop (back view), Hitler , Bormann . On right hand side Mussolini talks to Goering . The assassination attempt on Hitler was at 12.42pm on 20th July 1944 at Hitler's "Wolf's Lair\" HQ. Bomb planted in a briefcase and left under a table by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, aged 37, a disaffected general staff officer whose experience of SS atrocities in Russia convinced him of the evils of Nazism.")