Bodyguard - Athena

EpisodE 5
JEwisH and ÉmigrÉ
attEmpts to kill HitlEr
Highlights
• Many plots against Hitler originated with disaffected Germans in exile,
such as former Nazi Otto Strasser, who set up the opposition Schwarze
Front (Black Front) and later fled to Switzerland.
• In addition to lone Jewish gunmen, a Paris-based Jewish group may
have plotted to assassinate Hitler.
• Working with a British officer during the Spanish Civil War, Soviet
agents hatched a plot to kill Hitler that was later abandoned.
Question to Consider
What do you think of
the suggestion that
a Jewish emigration
organization offered
to spy on the Parisbased
conspirators in
exchange for looser
restrictions on the
number of German
Jews who could
relocate to Palestine?
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EpisodE 6
kill HitlEr BEforE war starts
Highlights
• As Hitler moved to acquire Austria and the Sudetenland in
Czechoslovakia, British Col.
F. Noel Mason-Macfarlane
proposed assassinating
Hitler; ultimately, the British
government dismissed the
scheme as “unsportsmanlike.”
• Some German generals
considered shooting Hitler in
the run-up to war but backed
off for lack of clear support
from Britain and France.
Question to Consider
In your opinion, when—if ever—is assassination acceptable as a
political tool?
Highlights
• On the anniversary of the Beer
Hall Putsch, Johann Georg Elser
planted a bomb near the podium
where Hitler would speak;
when it exploded, however,
Hitler had already left.
• Desperate to prove British
involvement in the Elser
EpisodE 7
BomBs and paranoia
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