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They can say what they want to say. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. On March 12, , a sudden hail storm prompts fans at a soccer match in Kathmandu, Nepal, to flee. The resulting stampede killed at least 70 people and injured hundreds more. Approximately 30, people were watching the game between the Nepalese home team, Janakpur, and Her alleged kidnappers, Brian David Mitchell, a drifter who the Smarts had briefly employed at their house, and his wife, Wanda Barzee, were The London drug squad appears at house of George Harrison and Pattie Boyd with a warrant and drug-sniffing canines.
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Despite the confusion, the Reserve Army began arresting high-ranking Nazi leadership in Berlin. However, delays and a lack of clear communication, along with the broadcasting of the fact that Hitler was alive, ultimately unraveled the entire plan.
That same night, General Friedrich Fromm convened an impromptu court martial and sentenced all of the conspirators to death. Ludwig Beck committed suicide whilst Stauffenberg, von Haeften, Olbricht and another officer, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, were executed by a makeshift firing squad in the courtyard of the Bendlerblock. The Nazi leader and his closest aides died by suicide less than a year later.
Contact us at letters time. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and several other high-ranking Nazi staff members planned and carried out the attempt, and were executed for it. By Albinko Hasic. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber?
Go here to link your subscription. Though he was aware that some of his subordinates—most notably Claus von Stauffenberg , his Chief of Staff—were planning an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler , he remained quiet and agreed to have a part in it if he became a top official of the new government after the mutiny.
When the attempt to proceed with the mutiny on July 15 failed, Fromm refused to have any further part in their mutiny. However, on July 20 the news broke out that Hitler had been the victim of an explosion in a Nazi base in Poland near Russia; Wolf's Lair. Fromm quickly realized that it was Stauffenberg and the plotters that did it, and when he tried to arrest them, they overthrew him and locked him in a jail cell in the headquarters.
When the mutiny failed, Fromm was found by Nazis and freed. He immediately had the conspirators executed [1] against Hitler's orders to take the conspirators alive to cover up potential allegations that he himself was involved. However, these actions did not save him. After executing the top plotters, Fromm returned to his office for the night. There he was met by various Nazi officers, Dr.
Goebbels among them. Their talk ended with Goebbels saying "You've been in a damned hurry to get witnesses out of your way. He refused to commit himself to any attempt and was therefore distrusted by the conspirators. On July 20, , Fromm expressed outrage when confronted with news from Olbricht , and Mertz of Hitler's "assassination" and of their dispatch by telex for the Home Army to march on Berlin and secure the Government Quarter under the secret orders of the emergency contingency plan Operation Valkyrie.
After telephoning the Wolf's Lair and learning from Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel that Hitler was only slightly injured in the assassination attempt, Fromm declared the conspirators under arrest. But he was immediately overpowered, disarmed, and confined to a room of the Bendlerstrasse headquarters under armed guard. As the coup attempt fell apart close to midnight, officers loyal to the regime freed Fromm who then burst into Stauffenberg's office with an armed escort and proclaimed the conspirators in his presence Stauffenberg , Olbricht , Mertz, Colonel- General Ludwig Beck , and Lt.
Werner von Haeften guilty of high treason. Undoubtedly anxious to conceal any revelations the conspirators may divulge regarding his foreknowledge and tacit approval of their planned coup, Fromm allowed Beck to take his own life, but has the others executed by firing squad shortly before half-past midnight.
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