Operation Valkyrie page 7 by ric Gustafson
Hitler's headquarters at Rastenburg was called ' Wolfsschanze' or ' Wolf's Lair'. At the time of East Prussia it laid amid the Masurian Lakes. The soil was compounded of centuries of corpses. It was here in 1410 that the battle of Tannenberg had been fought. This area was bleak, dark and forbidding. In this headquarters compound was a camp of huts and underground concrete bunkers. Just beyond the wooded low hills of this desolate place was the death camps of Stutthof and Treblinka. To get access inside this place, one had to know the Fuhrer well.
Stauffenberg told the others that he would do the job himself. One of his disadvantages was his physical makeup. He was severely wounded in battle and lacked in dexterity. In the summer of 1943, a plan was formed to show Hitler new uniforms for soldiers on the Eastern Front. Freiherr von dem Bussche and Ewald Heinrich von Kleist were to wear bombs around them and blow up themselves and Hitler. The plan failed. Kleist tried again in January 1944 and again the plan failed.
On July 5 1944, Julius Leber, one of the conspirators, was arrested by the Gestapo. Stauffenberg knew he had to act and act quickly before they were found out.
research help: ' Secret Germany' by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric
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