Hitler had ridiculous levels of plot armour.

I’m glad to see so many people like the video! I had a lot of fun researching and writing this one.

This Adolf H. guy was a very inpressive assassin indeed. 42 plots to assassinate Hitler failed, yet he succeeded with a single bullet.

Hitler: *Commits suicide* Spirits of Nazi executed for trying to kill him: "Bruh..."

It's still always amazing to me how sheer luck can often play into significant historical events. Just imagining what kinda difference it would have made to the party if he had perished at these different points in the timeline is really interesting, as his cult of personality was a driving force in bringing in the German public's support

You forgot the time when Hitler could have potentially been assassinated by an archeologist that bumped into him. Hitler signed the man's copy of Mein Kampf, and no one was harmed.

Hitler seeing all these assassination attempts: “can’t rely on anyone these days you gotta do everything yourself.”

"We took this challenge before our lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil." -- Claus Von Stauffenberg

As I continue down the Simon youtubevers i find myself more and more in disbelief how good some of these entires are and how great the research is. He truly picks out some of the best possible to write for him and I appreciate all the efforts put into them.

A icon of history you are. KZfaqrs who are known by everyone. Thanks for your work in this space.

I think a movie or video, exploring in depth, the guy who decided to plant a bomb in the pillar. The year, and patience, he had is amazing to me!

Killing Hitler would not change Germany's fate. The Allies would not accept anything less than an unconditional surrender and I do not believe them or the SS would be willing to accept that. That would only complicate things even more. But even then I would have preferred them to have been successful.

'Long live our sacred Germany"-Claus von Stauffenberg his last words not all germans and nazis were evil thank you and keep up the amazing work your doing

"He was executed September the 25th of September, 1944". Yes, but what month, man, what month???

How history might have changed if one of these assassinations had been successful, especially one of the early ones.

*"You may hand us over to the executioner,* but in three months time, *the disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets"* -Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben, Valkyrie (2008) *"We have to show the world that not all of us were like him"* -Maj Gen. Henning von Tresckow, Valkyrie (2008) *"Look them in the eye. They'll remember you...Long live sacred Germany!"* -Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, Valkyrie (2008)

A biography of Henning von Tresckow would be interesting…

Man dude that hid in the pillar was an absolute legend

"Es lebe das heilige Deutschland!" such strong final words, from a man who gave his life trying to save his country and the entire world. Go watch Valkyrie, what a great movie about the July 20 plot. Spectacular video as always, thank you Warographics

Absolutely great episode. I loved the descriptive nature of Operation Valkyrie with details I just learned through this video. Thank you for your great work!!!

Talk about commitment, courage and patience from Johann Elser. But it was a stroke of sheer bad luck that history as we know it could have been altered...

The dude with the bomb in his pants during the art exhibit is extremely lucky and unlucky...lucky he didn't die, and unlucky that hitler was rushing through everything

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Early attempts 5:10 - Chapter 2 - The beer hall bomb 8:45 - Chapter 3 - 3 attempts in 1 day 13:05 - Chapter 4 - The July 20 plot

Thanks Ian. That was awesome! I learned a lot. One of my grandmother's brothers-in-law was a very high ranking member of the July 20th plot. He was fortunate not to be executed. Instead (Nazi humor here), he was sent to the prison in which Hitler served his time after the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" while in prison. George S Patton's 3rd Army was rapidly approaching the prison while my uncle was there so all of the SS guards were really nice to him. They all wanted him to tell the Americans how humane they were.

The bomb at the Wolf's Lair probably didnt have the impact it would have had because, being July, it was hot and the windows were opened, allowing much of the bombs power to dissipate.

Dude was one of the most evil men in history but damn if he wasn't crazy lucky.

Since you did the rebuilding of Warsaw on the other channel. I hope you will cover the 1944 Warsaw Uprising here

I really appreciate the effort you are putting forth with this channel factboi

Stauffenbergs briefcase was recovered by Kryten in Red Dwarf after Lister goes to Nazi Germany. Classic episode.

Apparently constantly being on a timetable and then constantly being behind on that timetable can save your life.

And in the end it was a simple Austrian corporal and failed art student who pulled off what all the rest couldn’t.

The amount of sheer, dumb luck that surrounded that monster and kept him alive longer is absolutely mind-boggling

I'm not sure how many channels of yours I follow at this point, But they all make my brain satisfied.

This was very exciting, I was hoping any of them would work out even tho we know how history whent lol. But this shows you how great written and narrated this video was.

This is an excellent video simon!! When you lay it out without emotion straight up the videos rule!!!

I know you guys have a lot of different channels and I can never remember which ones are which, but I’m just glad the video I clicked this time isn’t the one where Simon tries to be funny. He performs much better when he’s serious

Another great video. Please do another documenting any assassination attempts made against Stalin.

Since you're talking about the more well known ones, does that mean we'll get a second one on the lesser known ones..? 😇

Speaking of German Resistance in WW2 you need to do a biographics on Dietrich BonHoeffer

I knew about a few of em but holy crap. I just know how vlogging through history saying how luck, weather and etc changes events in history so hard.

It is mind blowing to know that Hitler avoided so many assassination attempts. So many of them sounds like something you'd see in a film or something. Several them sound very interesting. And I can't say I ever knew there was a German resistance to Hitler, so yeah, really crazy stuff.

It's ironic that the Gestapo was able to suss out these conspiracies since they were infamously inept and understaffed.

Cool video. Any chance of a Boer War episode?

Hit me in the feels. Bjce one, factboi.

Those are some strong last words.

You should make a separate video on the night of the long knives

Funnily enough I've been thinking about rewatching Valkyrie for the last 3 weeks. I think I'll save this video for when I have

Lol if you're going to try and assassinate someone who prefers to eat plant based meals, DONT POISON THE MEAT! I found that to be really funny.

They tried him a bunch, damn dude was ducking death consistently

Please do an entire video on the July 20 plot please.

One of the most remarkable attempts to assassinate Hitler was in the 1943 running of what was Nazi Germany's equivalent to remembrance day. On that day, which occurred not long after the catastrophic (for the nazis) defeat at Stalingrad. After delivering a short address, Hitler was then shown around a display of captured Soviet weapons. While there, the plan among some high ranking army Generals was for one of them, Von Gehrsdorf (I hope I spelled it right), to activate the 10 minute fuses on the self concealed explosives within his uniform tunic and remain close to not just Hitler, but other significant leaders of Nazi Germany at the same time so as to take them out all at once. One photo taken while Hitler was being shown round this display shows Von Gehrsdorf, unbeknownst to most, bombs armed standing close to Hitler. However, the picture also gives a clue as to what happened next. Hitler wasn't really paying any interest or attention to what he was being shown and instead of wandering around the display for 30 minutes, left abruptly after 2 minutes. Von Gehrsdorf excused himself from the entourage, dashed to a toilet, where he defused both bombs with very little time to spare. Prior to seeing the video about it by Mark Felton, I hadn't heard of what was probably the closest he could have come to being assassinated, but the story is extraordinary

come on simon. i can subscribe only so many times.. you are killing me here

if there was ever someone that could be said to possess the devil's luck

The night of the long knives was an internal power struggle, which Ernst Roehm lost… so he and his SA were murdered by those Nazis who won. Ernst Roehm was a committed Nazi, a thug, utterly ruthless and brutal, a friend of Hitler from the early days and also gay… the being gay bit played a role for some of his Nazi friends who plotted against him, others just wanted more power. Anyone murdered during the night of long knives were hardcore Nazis, so no innocent blood spilled … Nazis turning on other Nazis, for power, and because at the end of day someone who does not fit their worldview will be taken care once the person served his/ her purpose….

Love your channels ✌️🇳🇴

This is on Warographics? I'd have put it on - Into the shadows - if I were you Simon mate Still, love your content as always! 👌👍👍

Sometimes with assassination, you gotta play the long game by making the target lose all hope and they do the job themselves.

Can you do something on the Nuremberg trials? Please

French resistance in ww2 and the Filipino-american war please

It's almost as if the universe HAD TO endure Hitler.

Your spelling of "Freiherr" is funny! As a german speaker: "Frei" = free, spelled like "shy" or "high"; "Herr" = mister, spelled like "where" with a hard RRRRRRR-sound

Interesting video

Simon that beard is getting glorious damn

Anyone recognizes the music this video uses in the beginning? It's too quiet, short and Simon's voice doesn't help. Heard it in other Warographics videos, but again, too quiet and too short.

I would love to see this done as a Brain Blaze video.

How did the SS find out all the time? Especially how did they get the guy who planted the podium bomb? No CCTV, no internet. It’s baffling.

thank you

This video is going to do well

The only assassin he couldn't thwart was himself.

Why does Von Gersdorff look like Eric Bischoff from WCW & WWE lmao

A few forgotten heros there. Salute

Great video! But you forgot the only plot that was actually successful. The plot led by lt. Aldo Raine and the basterds that took place in a movie theatre in France during a screening of "the nation's pride". Some sources also say the theatre was actually burnt by the owner who was secretly a jew.

How many channels does he have

The memorial to the members of the july 20th plot is chilling. They definitely showed the world not all germans were like Hitler.

Hitler had the luck of the Irish that Michael Malloy had.

hats off for those glorious efforts to make a big change. true heroes but too bad it failed in the main goal.

Great episode. People still believe hitler commited suicide?!. Surely he would have given himself a get out plan.

I need a movie about all the assassination attempts on Hitler and Castro, wacky and not because that level of plot armor is like it was written for TV. I think between them there’s 200 attempts

What do you say to death? Hitler’s luck: Not today! No today!

What did I learn? The Gestapo were really good at their job... 🤔

Wasn't Val Kylrie in Batman???

when I saw the title, I though it was part of Mega Projects🙄🙄🙄

3:42 September the 25th of September?

Hitler gets a lot of bad rap, but we have to remember Hitler killed Hitler. And a relative of mine attempted to kill him.

Up next;Belleau Woods

We Germans tried very seriously a few times to get rid of the devil. But our devil was a lucky bastard.

I bet you wont ever make these about the most brutal dictators, same faction or actually its identical twin

I have respect for Rommel wasn't he forced to commit suicide for this ? I thought of all germans as bad guys during WW2 well there were heros like these

You know what bothers me, when a youtuber repeatedly says a word wrong over and over again. Its Val•ka•re

A war of ideologies, of generations, of greed and ancient feuds. A war imported from a far off land and fought in the heart of America, on the streets of the Empire City. A war that would lay the foundation for one of the most powerful entities in 20th Century America. An incubator for cultural icons and folk heroes that laid bare the inherent nature of man and capitalism right on the front pages. I suggested a few times in your earlier videos and am once more nominating, for topic consideration, The Castellammarese War. THE factional Mafia war that acts as the basis for the very concept of gangland warfare. (I hope you do this topic because I'm posting this comment on every video till you do. I am a terrorist)

Alternate title. A tier list of Germany's absoltue chads.

3:42 Executed on September the 25th, September of 1944? Too much Septembers?

Adolf-kun was the protagonist and we are just the side characters

1.Castro 2.Hitler

Bro said Valkyrie wrong

Hitler was eventually assassinated... by Hitler.

And he beat them to it!

"Planning a coup to overthrow the gov" sounds like someone who's saying some of the same that's a current leader targeting a specific political group

There are a couple of problems with the basic premise of this video. First of all, there is a large assumption by many people that Germany would have been happy to be rid of Hitler, whereas, in fact, the truth was quite different. The vast majority of Germans felt that as long as they weren’t directly affected, things were okay. Once the victories of 1939 (Poland) and 1940 (the Low Countries and France), Hitler’s personal popularity was absolutely sky high. As far as most Germans were concerned, the defeat in WWI and the wrongs of the Versailles Treaty had been redressed. There might have been a lot of lone wolf attempts on his life but this would not have been unusual in a totalitarian dictatorship. For exactly the same reason, the vast bulk of Germans were behind Hitler. This is the cult of the Fuehrer. People don’t generally understand this. When media is totally controlled by people like Hitler and Goebbels, it is pretty easy to keep everyone on side and the greater mass of the population simply stops thinking. Secondly, the attempts on Hitler’s life were no guarantee that things would have been any better. By the time of the July 20 Plot, the Allies had already agreed that Germany would only be given the opportunity of unconditional surrender. So there was little incentive to simply give up, even though a number of people thought they should. Finally, even if Hitler had been killed, the situation would not have changed. The vast majority of German generals were still committed to the war. There’s no evidence that the nature of the war would have changed much and every reason to believe that it would have continued at a basically similar pace. There’s a common belief that if Hitler had been killed, everything would have returned to normal and this is simply not true. For that reason, the emphasis people place on the number and nature of assassination attempts is overrated. It’s not that these things are irrelevant. They’re not. The problem is that, for the most part, they would likely not have changed very much as far as the course of the war was concerned and I think it distracts people from the true nature of what life in Nazi Germany was really like. _’An Honourable Defeat’,_ Anton Gill _’Plotting Hitler’s Death’,_ Joachim C. Fest

Bounced on my boy’s warhelm to this for hours!