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On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The apparent purpose of the assassination attempt was to seize political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi Party (including the SS) in order to obtain peace with the western Allies as soon as possible, but continue to occupy Eastern European countries and Allies such as Poland or Czechoslovakia, while continuing to wage war against Soviet Union. The underlying desire of many of the involved high ranking Wehrmacht officers was to save Germany from defeat as the disastrous war policies by Hitler and to safeguard territorial conquests that Germany made early in the war such as occupied and annexed areas of Alsace, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Lithuania.[1]. While no details of intended peace initiatives to be proposed by the conspirators have been identified.,[2][3][4] there are known are conditions for peace offer to the Allies which included demands to accept a wide reaching territorial annexations by Germany in Europe[5][6]
The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government. The failure of both the assassination and the military coup d'état which was planned to follow it, led to the arrest of at least 7,000 people by the Gestapo.[7] According to records of the Führer Conferences on Naval Affairs, 4,980 of these were executed.[7]