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Hitler's daily routine When Hitler was in residence, he would begin the day by taking a walk alone with his dog around 9 or 10 am, and at 10:30 am would look at the mail which had been delivered by air or courier train.[4] A noon situation briefing, which frequently ran as long as two hours, would be convened in Keitel's and Jodl's bunker. This was followed by lunch at 2 pm in the dining hall. Hitler would invariably sit in the same seat between Jodl and Otto Dietrich, while opposite him sat Keitel, Martin Bormann and General Karl Bodenschatz, Goering's adjutant.[1] After lunch, Hitler would deal with non-military matters for the remainder of the afternoon. Coffee was served around 5 pm, followed by a second military briefing by Jodl at 6 pm. Dinner, which could also last as long as two hours, began at 7:30 pm, after which films were shown in the cinema. Hitler would then retire to his private quarters where he would give monologues to his entourage, including the two female secretaries who had accompanied him to the Wolf's Lair.[11] Occasionally Hitler and his entourage listened to gramophone records of Beethovensymphonies, selections from Wagner or other operas, or German lieder.[1] Notable visitors • Antonescu, Ion (marshal) – Romania[12][13][14] • Boris III of Bulgaria (tsar) – Bulgaria[15][16] • Bose, Subhas Chandra (independence politician) - India[17] • Bożiłow, Dobri (prime minister '43-44) - Bulgaria[18] • Ciano, Galeazzo (minister of foreign affairs) – Italy[19][20] • Csatay von Csatai, Lajos (general, ministry of war) - Hungary[21] • Erden, Ali Fuat (general) - Turkey[22] • Gailani, Rashid Ali al- (former prime minister) – Iraq[23] • Gariboldi, Italo (general) - Italy[24] • Graziani, Rodolfo (marshal) - Italy[25] • Horthy, Miklós (regent) – Hungary[26] • Jany, Vitéz Gusztáv (general) - Hungary[27] • Kállay de Nagy-Kálló, Miklós (prime minister) – Hungary[28] • Koburg, Kiril (prince of Bulgaria and Preslav, tsar successor) - Bulgaria[29] • Kvaternik, Slavko (commander and minister of armed forces) - Croatia[30] • Laval, Pierre (prime minister of Vichy regime) – France[31] • Lukash, Konstantin/Константин Лукаш (general, chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army) -Bulgaria[32] • Luukkonen Fanni (army colonel, leader of the voluntary auxiliary organisation for women) - Finland[33] • Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf (military leader and statesman) – Finland[34] • Mayalde, Jose Finat y Escrivá de Romaní (Conde de Mayalde, ambassador to Third Reich) - Spain[35] • Michov, Nikoła Michaiłov/Никола Михайлов Михов (general, minister of war) –Bulgaria[36] • Moscardó Ituarte, José (general) - Spain[37] • Mussolini, Benito (il Duce) – Italy[38][39][40][41] • Nedić, Milan (general, prime minister) - Serbia[42] • Öhquist, Harald (lieutenant general) - Finland[43] • Ōshima, Hiroshi (general, ambassador to III Reich) – Japan[44][45][46] • Ante Pavelic (Poglavnik, Ustasha leader of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina) - Croatia[47] Page30
• Tiso, Jozef (Roman Catholic priest, President) – Slovakia[48] • Tovar de Lemos, Pedro (2º Conde de Tovar, diplomat) - Spain[49] • Toydemir, Cemil Cahit - (general) - Turkey[50] Assassination attempt Reichsminister Hermann Göring surveys the destroyed conference room at the Wolfsschanze, July 1944. In July 1944, an attempt was made to kill Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. The assassination, which became known as the 20 July plot, was organized by a group of acting and retired Heer Army officers and some civilians who wanted to remove Hitler in order to establish a new governance in Germany. After several failed attempts to kill Hitler, the Wolf's Lair - despite its security - was chosen as a viable location. Staff officer Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg would carry a briefcase bomb into a daily conference meeting and place it just a few feet away from Hitler. However due to the reconstruction of the Führer Bunker in the summer of 1944, the location was changed to a building known as the Lager barrack on the day of the strategy meeting. This alternate venue along with several other factors, such as Hitler unexpectedly calling the meeting earlier than anticipated, meant Stauffenberg's attempt would prove unsuccessful. At 12:43 pm, when the bomb exploded, the interior of the building was devastated but Hitler was only slightly injured. Four other people present died from their wounds a few days later. Before the bomb detonated, Stauffenberg and his adjutant, Lieutenant Werner von Haeften had already begun to leave theWolfsschanze in order to return to Berlin. Their escape involved passing through various security zones that controlled all access around the site. After a short delay at the RSD guard post just outside Sperrkreis 1, they were allowed to leave by vehicle. The two officers were then driven down the southern exit road towards the military airstrip near Rastenburg (at 54°2ʹ36ʺN 21°25ʹ57ʺE). However by the time they reached the guard house at the perimeter of Sperrkreis 2, the alarm had been sounded. According to the official RHSA report, "at first the guard refused passage until Stauffenberg persuaded him to contact the adjutant to the compound commander who then finally authorized clearance". It was between here and the final checkpoint of Sperrkreis 3 that Haeften tossed another briefcase from the car containing an unused second bomb. On reaching the outer limit of the Wolfsschanze security zones, the two men were allowed to catch their plane back to army general headquarters in Berlin. The attempted assassination of Hitler at the Wolf Lair was part of Operation Valkyrie, a covert plan to take control and suppress any revolt in the German Reich following Hitler's death. However once news arrived from the Wolf's Lair that the Führer was still alive, the plan failed as troops loyal to the Nazi regime quickly re-established control of key government buildings. Von Stauffenberg, his adjutant Werner von Haeften and several co-conspirators were arrested and shot the same evening. Page31
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