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Just 284 days after July 20, 1944, the earthly lives of the Third
Reich and Adolf Hitler both came to an abrupt end. If Stalingrad
was the military turning point in the war for Germany, then July 20
was surely the societal. Hitler had promised a classless military
and civilian Fatherland even before he became chancellor and he was
about to complete the fulfillment of that promise. He had been
covertly destroying the historic officer class in Germany long
before Stalingrad, but the assassination attempt gave him the
opportunity to accelerate the purge and include the nobility and
civilian leaders who opposed him. Specific information about the
coup attempt was a closely guarded secret at the time and its
investigation was the Gestapo's number one priority even as the
Russians approached Berlin. It is possible today to reliably
reconstruct and connect important events and related biographies of
the principle characters, coherently piecing together the post-July
20 history. It's the story of the disappearance of Germany's
officer class, and for a time, its nobility and civilian
leadership; all of which has become part of Hitler's other legacy.
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