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November 8, 1939: Georg Elser, a German citizen who despised the freedom restrictions which were placed upon the workers, poor working conditions and low wages.
Elser was a skilled carpenter and had previously worked in a watch/clock factory. Combining these two skills Elser crafted a time bomb in a plan to assassinate Hitler.
Hitler was due to give a speach in Burberbraukeller, a beer hall in Munch. Elser began preparing months in advance as he hollowed out a wodden pillar to house the bomb near where Hitler should be standing to give the speach.
He packed the bomb in days in advance, set it to go off at 9:20 PM the evening of the speach as Hitler was to begin at 9:00. He crafted the device in a manner to deaden the sound of the ticking timer.
Many consider this to have been the most carefully planned attempt of any of the assassination attempts. The work that went into creating the bomb, the precision of the timer, creating the space inthe pillar for the bomb and the carpentery that went into covering it up were all carried out in a precise and skillful manner.
Hitler changed his plans at the last minute due to bad weather at the airport and instead spoke earlier than expected so that he could take a tain bak to Berlin that night instead of his usual plane. He concluded his speach at 9:07, just 13 minutes before the bomb went off.
The bomb killed 8 people and wounded 60 others. Research shows that if Hitler had been standing in the location where he was giving the speach there is almost no chance that he would have survived the blast and history would have been drastically altered.
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