Memorial for failed assassin of Hitler
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October 20, 2010, Wednesday
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A CARPENTER who tried to kill Adolf Hitler and paid with his life will soon be honored with a memorial in Berlin, over 70 years after his bomb failed to stop the Nazi dictator.
The city state of Berlin has unveiled plans to erect next year a steel silhouette of the face of Georg Elser rising to a height of 17 meters in Mitte District, on the street which was once home to Hitler's imposing chancellery.
Elser concealed a bomb inside a pillar he had hollowed out in a Munich beer hall where Hitler was due to speak on November 8, 1939. But because it was foggy, Hitler took the train back to Berlin instead of flying, meaning he had to leave the beer hall early - 13 minutes before Elser's bomb exploded.
Elser was arrested at the Swiss border the same evening, put in a concentration camp, and finally murdered in Dachau on April 9, 1945.
The city state of Berlin has unveiled plans to erect next year a steel silhouette of the face of Georg Elser rising to a height of 17 meters in Mitte District, on the street which was once home to Hitler's imposing chancellery.
Elser concealed a bomb inside a pillar he had hollowed out in a Munich beer hall where Hitler was due to speak on November 8, 1939. But because it was foggy, Hitler took the train back to Berlin instead of flying, meaning he had to leave the beer hall early - 13 minutes before Elser's bomb exploded.
Elser was arrested at the Swiss border the same evening, put in a concentration camp, and finally murdered in Dachau on April 9, 1945.
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