P. Boeselager, attempted Hitler assassin
Posted: Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 2:16 pmPhilipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of German army officers who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944, died on Thursday. He was 90 and lived in Altenahr, in the Rhineland-Palatinate. …
Mr. von Boeselager, disturbed by the Nazi campaign of extermination against the Jews and by German atrocities that he witnessed as a lieutenant on the Eastern Front, joined an anti-Hitler conspiracy in 1942 and later took part in the plot being organized by Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. …
Mr. von Boeselager, assigned to an explosives research team, was able to acquire top-grade English explosives. On July 20, von Stauffenberg carried a briefcase stuffed with plastic explosives and a timed detonator into a conference being held in the Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia, and placed it under a table being used by Hitler and more than 20 officers. … Read full obituary
