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Hiraeth

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Thu Mar 31, 2016, 02:25 PM Mar 2016

The Lone Assassin: The Epic True Story of the Man Who Almost Killed Hitler

One man had a single goal...to eliminate Hitler from the face of the Earth.

Living as a carpenter who had spent time working in a watch factory, Georg Elser was just an ordinary member of society living in Munich. That is, however, until he took it upon himself to attempt to assassinate the Fhrer, Adolph Hitler. Being a common man who opposed the Nazi regime, Elser took the skills from his craft and worked to assemble his own bomb detonator. Every night, he snuck out to the Munich Beer Hall, where he worked on assembling the bomb that he planned to use to kill Hitler.

Hidden in a hollowed-out space near the speaker's podium, Elser's bomb went off successfully, killing eight people.

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