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 ...

According to Pierre Galante’s Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals’ Plot Against Hitler, July 20 was an unbearably hot day and the meeting planners decided to move the meeting to a wooden ...

Operation Valkyrie came so, so close to success. Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.

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.