By Peter Hoffmann

"I am immortal!" exulted Hitler within the wake of the failed assassination plot of July 20, 1944. As Peter Hoffmann indicates during this startling e-book, that bombing was once in simple terms the easiest identified of greater than thirty makes an attempt on Hitler's existence, the 1st coming as early as 1921, whilst he was once the chief of the German employees social gathering. utilizing vast archival fabric, Hoffmann information those assassination plots and descriptions the fanatically advanced safety features that built to maintain Hitler secure. He analyzes Hitler's SS escort and the opposite safety teams accountable for his life—there have been such a lot of of them that they generally counteracted one another—together with their preparations for his transportation, public appearances, flats, and wartime headquarters. offering outstanding new information regarding the workings of these dedicated to protecting and destroying him, this publication is a useful contribution to the heritage of the 3rd Reich.

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1 Only Prussia and Bavaria had political police forces of importance. Besides Department lA of the Berlin Presidium of Police, itself ultimately under the authority of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, there was in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior a Prussian Political Police. In April I 933 Goring as Prussian Minister of the Interior created the Preussisches Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt (Gestapa, Secret State Police Bureau) with offices located at 8 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse where Department lA had already been moved a few days earlier.

38 Whilst the new intelligence-gathering service contributed to greater overall security, there were ample reasons for vigilance in protecting the life of the Fuhrer more immediately. Hitler frequently got into dangerous situations, as during the Kapp putsch in I 920, when he had flown to Berlin to try to participate. ' As BEFORE I933 I9 Hitler carried two passes, one for the 'Whites' and one for the 'Reds,' he had only to show the appropriate one to get petrol for the rest of the journey (he was nevertheless late for this putsch).

Frau Stennes got in touch with Goring, who protected his former fellow-cadet against an SS assassination squad, and highly-placed friends-including the Papal Nuncio, the Archbishop of Cologne, and Stennes' father (who knew Ludendorfl)-interceded on his behal£ It was finally Goring, then Ministerpresident of Prussia, and his Chief of the Prussian Secret State Police, Diels, who got Stennes out of Germany to the Netherlands, whence the refugee travelled to England and on to China. He joined the staff of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and worked with the Chinese dictator's bodyguard and security service, also commanding his Headquarters Air Transport Detachment.

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