187 - American Army Finally Does Something Right - WW2 - March 26, 1943

by Panzer
They did what?
They sent the Germans a message over their own frequency?
That they were waiting for them to attack?
Haha, that’s funny... but wait, that means that they’re telling the Germans that they’ve
cracked their codes and know their plans.
Yeah... that’s... not very smart.
March 26, 1943
Last week there was an attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life.
This week… this week comes another one.
I’m Indy Neidell; this is World War Two.
Last week, the Axis offensive in the USSR took Kharkov and Belgorod before coming to
its end.
In North Africa, an Allied offensive was just about to begin, and, as I said, there was
a failed attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life.
And as I also said, there is another one this week.
On the 21st is a military museum display opening in Berlin.
On display is a collection of captured Soviet weaponry.
Before the opening to the public, though, Hitler, Herman Göring, Heinrich Himmler,
Karl Dönitz, and Wilhelm Keitel are to have a private viewing.
The assassins are using the same explosives they tried to use last week.
Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff, an Intelligence Liaison Officer who is to be on duty at the
exhibition, is going to be a human time bomb.
He has the bomb in a long overcoat- the museum is unheated so this is not suspicious, and
he plans to start the ten minute fuse just as Hitler is about to arrive, and just before
the bomb goes off, he’s going to run up to Hitler and grab him in a bear hug and blow
them both up.
However, in the interests of security, Hitler’s scheduled visit time is cut down to eight
minutes, and when he arrives he actually goes through the display in two minutes, so he’s
gone several minutes before the bomb is to blow.
Gersdorff does manage to get out of there and defuse the bomb, but it’s a pretty close
thing.
Check out our War Against Humanity series, also on this channel, for more background
and information about this conspiracy.
There is plenty of action in the field this week, and a big chunk of that is in North
Africa.
The Allies are going on the offensive, as Bernard Montgomery’s British 8th Army attacks
the Mareth Line, the Axis defense position in southern Tunisia.
Giovanni Messe’s defenses are German and Italian units interspersed with each other.
In the center, he has the German 90th Light Division across the highway to Gabes.