Mentally Ill Methods Used To Politely Ask Hitler To Cease Living
Hitler. A man so evil he ruined an entire mustache style. If anyone deserved to die, this man was it.
Here's the craziest ways history's most notorious villain was almost rubbed out.
Bad Schnitzel
Way back when Hitler was first embarking into politics, some brave citizen heard Hitler speak
and smelled trouble for Germany. This prompted this unknown individual-
or group of individuals- to try and eliminate Hitler before it was too late.
As Hitler and his staff had dinner at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin, they shortly after became
seriously ill. Poisoning was immediately suspected- but alas, whoever carried out
the assassination attempt failed to realize that Hitler was a vegetarian, and thus he was spared.
Next time a vegan tries to tell you meat is murder,
remind them that vegetables basically killed over 40 million people in World War II.
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword- Specially If Its Poisoned
It takes a special kind of man for people to want to kill you twice in the same
year. In February of 1932, Ludwig Assner, a member of the Bavarian State Parliament,
didn't exactly like the cut of Hitler's jib. He penned a poisoned letter to Hitler,
but an acquaintance of Assner's spilled the tea and the letter was intercepted.
Mercenary Death
In 1934 Hitler had just been named Chancellor of Germany- but not everyone was triumphantly
throwing up their arms in Nazi salutes. In fact, many political and military leaders
were extremely wary of Hitler and his Nazi government. To solve this little problem,
Hitler kicked off what would become known as the Night of the Long Knives,
a series of political killings that effectively eliminated or silenced any opposition to Hitler.
Beppo Römer, a member of a German mercenary unit,
vowed revenge. He and a group of men made plans to kill Hitler,
but sadly the Gestapo would catch on to the plot before any real progress had been made.
Sometimes crazy can take care of crazy- or at least try to.
Murder From Within
When Römer failed to kill Hitler, Helmet Mylius, a member of the right-wing Radical small class
Party, took matters into his own hand. Under his direction, 160 men infiltrated the SS in order to
conduct secret surveillance on Hitler. Mylius quickly learned Hitler's schedule and daily
routines, allowing him to plot the perfect time to kill him. Yet again, the Gestapo-
who we have to admit was super on the ball- discovered the plot and put a stop to it.
Mylius managed to avoid any serious punishment due to the influence of German Field Marshal
Erich von Manstein- who would go on to be one of Germany's best generals in the second world war.
Allegiance to Country, Not A Man
A year later, a group of government officials from the German Foreign Office knew that they
had to act to prevent a disaster. They weren't buying Hitler's 'Make Germany Great Again',
and instead saw that Hitler was leading Germany to disaster, not a resurgence of her glorious
imperial days. They knew they had to do something to save the nation they loved, even if it meant
killing the man who now ruled it. The group attempted to drum up support with a letter where
they penned, “The oath of allegiance to Hitler has lost its meaning since he is ready to sacrifice
Germany.” Sadly the plot never took off, and the world hurtled ever forwards into global war.
Explosive Briefcases
By 1936 Hitler had whipped up hatred for Jews across much of Germany, and German Jew Helmut
Hirsch knew he had to act. He filled two suitcases with explosives with a plan to plant them inside
the Nazi party headquarters in Nuremberg. Unfortunately, a Gestapo informant learned of
the plot and Hirsch was discovered. Pronounced guilty, Hirsch was executed via beheading,
a far better fate than many of his fellow jews would suffer in the years to come.
Back to the crazy though, our next assassin thought he could kill two birds with one stone.
Crazy Killer
You know you're a terrible person when even insane people want you dead. That's exactly
what happened in November of 1937, when mental patient Josef Thomas traveled all the way to
Berlin to shoot Hitler. However, Thomas also had a beef with the Nazi head of the air force,
Hermann Goring, and plotted to assassinate both on the same day.
Discovered by police, Thomas spilled the beans on himself putting an end to the plot.
Interestingly enough, it may have been a good thing that Gorring was in fact not
killed by Thomas. In the build-up to war, under Gorin's direction the Luftwaffe did not add any
significant number of long-range heavy bombers to its fleet, a move that would haunt Germany
during the Battle of England as it was forced to attack with light and medium bombers only.
Further, Goring's inflated ego assured Hitler that his Luftwaffe would be able to keep German troops
under siege in Russia supplied, and thus Hitler did not dispatch ground forces to relieve them.
This strategic blunder would spell disaster for over a hundred thousand German soldiers,
and for the war effort against the Soviet Union.
That One Time The Allies Saved Hitler's Life
Yep, you heard that right- the same Allies that Hitler would go on to nearly crush,
saved Hitler's life just before the war began. In September of 1938, conservatives in the
German army feared what a renewed war against the western allies might do to the nation.
They could smell disaster on the horizon, despite all the Nazi propaganda to the contrary.
They vowed to enact a coup the moment that Hitler declared war on Czechoslovakia,
eliminating Hitler and placing the exiled Wilhelm II back on the throne as emperor.
Much to their astonishment, Britain and France agreed to the annexation of the Sudetenland in a
bid to appease Hitler, and thus the risk of war was temporarily removed. The group nixed their
plans to replace Hitler- for the time being. That wouldn’t be the last time the Allies
saved Hitler’s life, but next is an assassin who wanted to kill Hitler for pretty wild reasons.
Killing Hitler In Order To Make... Russia Great Again?
Maurice Bavaud was a Swiss theology student and member of an anti-communist group in
France. The group's leader, Marcel Gerbohay, convinced Bavaud and others that he was in fact
a member of the Romanov Dynasty who had escaped execution at the hands of the dirty Bolsheviks.
In fact, Gerbohay was full of Bolshevik himself, but that didn't stop him from
convincing Bavaud that if he murdered Hitler, it would somehow help end Communism in Russia
and the Romanovs could retake the country for themselves. As if that would be much better.
Bavaud traveled to Germany in 1938 and bought a pistol,
then remarked to a policeman how he'd like to meet Hitler personally.
The police officer suggested he travel to Munich for the anniversary of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch,
which Hitler attended every year. Bavaud bought himself a ticket to the event on the reviewing
stand and posed as a reporter, prepared to bust a cap the moment Hitler strolled by.
Unfortunately, Bavaurd aborted the attempt as Hitler was in company of other Nazis that
Bavaurd didn't want to accidentally injure- which makes about as much sense to us as it does to you.
Bavaud now used the last remaining bit of his money to purchase expensive stationary
and forge a letter of introduction under the name of French nationalist leader and friend to Nazis,
Pierre Taittinger. He took the letter with the hopes of using it to gain an
audience with Hitler to Berchtesgaden, but Hitler had decided to remain in Munich.
Broke and destitute, Bavaud was forced to stowaway on a train to Paris,
but was discovered by the conductor. Interrogated by the Gestapo- who again,
were seriously on the ball- Bavaud admitted to the assassination plot and was executed.
Hitler's Abundant And Incredible Luck
Back in World War I Hitler narrowly avoided being exploded after the exact spot he had been standing
in just moments prior became ground zero for a British artillery round. This explosive luck-
get it?- would last well into Hitler's life, and pay off yet again in October of 1939.
On a victory parade of Warsaw after Hitler's conquest of Poland,
Polish Army General Michael Kraszewicz-Tokarzewski
hatched a plan to blow Hitler sky high with explosives buried under his parade route.
In a stroke of insane luck, Hitler's parade was diverted at the last minute,
and completely avoided the planted explosives. And because life is 100% not fair, history’s
biggest a-hole also happened to be history’s luckiest man.
Even More Explosive Luck
Just a month after being nearly blown up, Hitler was once again,
nearly blown up. For weeks, German carpenter Georg Elser planned the construction of a timed bomb
inside one of Germany's largest beer halls, where he knew Der Fuhrer would soon be making
his annual speech in commemoration of the Beer Hall Putsch. The bomb was planted
just a few feet away from where Hitler would eventually stand, its timer muffled by cork.
The bomb was timed to go off right in the middle of Hitler's speech,
but with world war 2 on his mind, Hitler cut his speech off early and rushed back to Berlin
to convene with his military leaders. Instead of Hitler, the bomb killed 8 others and injured
over 60- with the ceiling collapsing right where Hitler had been standing.
The subsequent crack down by the Gestapo made the components needed to create
explosives so difficult that multiple other assassination attempts in the works had to
be canceled after the organizers were unable to get their hands on the needed explosives.
If You Fail, Try, Try Again
In 1939 Beppo Römer was released from prison for his 1934 attempt to murder Hitler.
Apparently either the authorities had not been too impressed with Römer , or
were convinced that he was a reformed man. They would be extremely wrong.
Römer joined a resistance group of German intellectuals named the Solf Circle,
who were dedicated to opposing the Nazi party at every possible opportunity. The group tracked
Hitler's movements carefully, but Hitler's security had been dramatically increased
due to all the pesky attempts on his life. Failing to find an opportunity to strike,
the Solf Circle was eventually discovered and its members arrested in a Gestapo
sting. The Solf Circle members were betrayed from within by a Gestapo spy
pretending to be a Swiss sympathizer, and most would meet their end via torture and execution.
Then there was the one time Hitler was almost blown up by his own tanks.
Even His Own Army Wanted Him Dead
Many German generals were starting to warm up to the fact that Hitler was leading their nation to
disaster by 1943. A group of them plotted to arrest Hitler upon his visit to a military
detachment in Ukraine. One general's tanks would surround Hitler and his escorts completely,
and if Hitler refused to surrender they would simply kill everyone.
Hitler's visit was canceled at the last minute, and once more Das Fuhrer escaped certain death.
Multiple Attempts All In The Same Day
March 13th, 1943 would be the day Hitler would evade certain death
three times, and he never even had a clue.
First, a group of officers vowed to kill Hitler as he drove from the airport to a
local Army headquarters. Hitler however was accompanied by a heavy SS escort,
and the plan was canceled. Briefly delayed to lunch, a new plan was put into effect.
During their lunch together, at a specified signal several officers would rise and fire
their pistols at Hitler. Hitler however was a no-show and the plan was canceled.
In a last ditch effort to kill the luckiest SOB in history,
a bomb was camouflaged as liquor bottles and planted on Hitler's airplane. The
timer was set to blow as the plane was in flight and over Poland. However,
the plane’s hold iced over from the extreme temperatures and the fuse of the bomb failed.
Our next killer’s weapon of choice would be hugging.
And explosives. The Death Hug
Hitler's luck was so unbelievable that we wouldn't blame you for fact-checking us on the
sheer number of times Hitler avoided death purely by coincidence. Just a week after he was almost
gunned down twice and then blown out of the sky, Hitler would evade death yet again.
German officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff decided Hitler had to go at
any cost. Hitler, along with several prominent Nazi and military figures,
planned to visit Gersdorff at a Berlin armory where they could inspect captured Soviet weapons.
Gersdorff then set about packing his coat pockets with time-delayed explosives, set for ten minutes.
Just as Hitler arrived, Gersdorff set off the timers,
with a plan to hug Hitler right before the explosives went off in order to ensure his
death. It would be a suicide attack, but a necessary sacrifice for Germany.
Incredibly, Hitler breezed through the entire exhibition in less than ten minutes,
which prompted Gersdorff to rush into a bathroom in order to disarm the explosives.
The Allies Save Hitler's Life Again
In late 1943 the Allies were pushing back hard against the Luftwaffe's
domination of Europe's skies. This opened up opportunities for Allied planes to raid
German infrastructure. One such raid would end up saving Hitler's life.
The Germany Army was preparing to put out a new winter uniform, and Major Axel
von demn Bussche was chosen to model it for Hitler in a private viewing. Bussche was tall, handsome,
blonde and blue-eyed- basically the perfect Nazi in Hitler's view. But Bussche actually planned to
kill Hitler during the viewing by detonating a mine he would be carrying in his backpack.
The planned viewing however was canceled when an
Allied air raid destroyed the rail car containing the new uniforms.
Hitler: Immune To Explosives
By 1944 it was clear that Germany was losing the war, and it was largely due to Hitler's
ineptitude as a military leader. A group of senior Germany military officers concocted what
would be known as Operation Valkyrie, as they attempted to kill Hitler and make peace with
the western allies as soon as possible in order to avoid the complete destruction of Germany.
The conspirators managed to plant a 2.2 pound bomb in a briefcase inside a meeting room
where Hitler and his senior military advisors would discuss the on-going war. Incredibly,
Colonel Heinz Brandt is believed to have nudged the briefcase behind one of the legs of the table,
effectively deflecting the bomb blast and sparing Hitler's life.
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