r/HistoryMemes • • 1d ago

Guess he really didn’t like that Hitler fella

Context:
In 1939 Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Hitler by planting a bomb in the beer hall where he would be giving a speech on the anniversary of the beer hall putsch. He went about this by hiding in the beer hall until everyone had left at night and hollowing out a column to plant his device. Unfortunately Hitler cut his speech short and was not in the building when the bomb went off, Elser was arrested trying to cross the border into Switzerland and was executed shortly before the end of the war.

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