Invisible Coup: A Failed Attempt to Assassinate Hitler

Though a notorious scheme to kill Hitler failed, the plot had stunning—if brief— success in Paris. Paris was stuffy that day in late July 1944. Overhead, thunder cracked. Colonel Eberhard Finckh, deputy chief of General Staff West, was in his office near the Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Élysées. His telephone had been ringing …

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