Diary July 20, 1944

07-1944, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, July 20, 1944:

Home Front Germany: HITLER NARROWLY ESCAPES ASSASSINATION. Colonel Count von Stauffenberg leaves bomb in conference room at Wolfsschanze (‘Wolfs Lair‘), Rastenburg, East Prussia. He then flies to Berlin to organize military coup, but this is badly bungled. Goebbels’and Fromm, commander of Home Army, take vigorous counter-measures. Stauffenberg and other conspirators summarily executed. Colonel-General Beck commits suicide. Hitler broadcasts to German people condemning ‘small clique of traitors’.

Occupied France
German military conspirators temporarily seize control of Paris and imprison local SS personnel but wait in vain to hear confirmation of Hitler‘s death from Berlin. SS regain control and release comrades after Hitler‘s broadcast.

Home Front USA
President Roosevelt renominated to run for 4th term by overwhelming vote of Democratic Convention at Chicago.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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