Operation Valkyrie: 80 years since the failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Story by Christoph Hasselbach • 10mo. E ighty years ago, on July 20, 1944, at 12:42, a bomb went off in the conference ...

Operation Valkyrie casts you as fictional Standartenführer (regiment leader) Gerhard Mayer in 1944. The war is clearly beginning to turn against Germany’s favor, with the Allies advancing and the ...

The remembrance of Operation Valkyrie and the assassination attempt has shifted over time. For a long time after the war ended, its initiators were still regarded as traitors.

Operation Valkyrie. In early July 1944, Stauffenberg was appointed chief of staff to General Friedrich Fromm, a position which gave him access to Hitler’s military meetings and an opportunity to ...

Operation Valkyrie, the July 1944 military-led plot to assassinate Hitler and install a new government, remains the best-known act of German resistance against the Third Reich. But it was the ...