Assassination attempt by bomb against Hitler fails

Colonel Henning von Tresckow, First General Staff Officer of Army Group Mid, has been a witness to horrible German crimes in the occupied territories since the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union. Since then he has become convinced that Hitler must be removed by whatever means necessary. Up to this time he has tried in vain to win high-ranking Wehrmacht officers for his plans to overthrow the dictator.

Source: gegen-diktatur.de Henning von Tresckow with his sons

His opportunity to act finally arrives: As part of a visit to the front, Hitler makes a stopover on 13 March 1943 in Smolensk in the Ukraine where the Army Group Mid headquarters is located. Von Tresckow succeeds in hiding a bomb aboard the „Führer’s“ plane. However, the bomb’s timer fails to detonate during the aircraft’s continued flight. Fortunately for this member of the resistance, the assassination attempt remains undiscovered. A few months later von Tresckow will ally himself with Colonel Claus Schenk Baron von Stauffenberg to plan another assassination attempt by bomb against Hitler. After the failure of „20 July 1944“ von Tresckow will decide to commit suicide.