In mid-March 1943, the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler survived his first assassination attempt, because the bomb hidden on the plane in which he was traveling did not explode due to the freezing of the explosive fuse due to the bitter cold.

In a report on this subject, the French magazine Le Point said that high-ranking officers subsequently gathered around General Henning von Tresco, and decided to make a new attempt on March 21, 1943.

Colonel Baron Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorf, 37, agreed to blow himself up in Hitler's motorcade while visiting an exhibition dedicated to weapons seized by the Germans from the Soviets.

Since Gersdorf was in charge of the exhibition, it was his responsibility to accompany the Nazi leader, and it only required him to detonate the bomb he had hidden in his pocket at the appropriate time.

And March 21 was the anniversary of Heroes' Day, as the capital, Berlin, dressed in its brightest form, and indeed, tens of thousands of Berlin residents gathered in front of the aforementioned exhibition grounds to watch Hitler's motorcade.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the official motorcade arrived, and Hitler got out of his car frowning, followed by Göring, Himmler and Admiral Dönitz, and the first movement orchestra of Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 played for them. Then Hitler went up to the stage to deliver his speech, which did not last, unusually, except He dedicated 12 minutes to criticizing the Russian enemies, which is really strange because the Nazi leader's speeches were so long.

Then Hitler rushed into the exhibition hall, and here Colonel Gersdorf realized that the time had come to prepare the two bombs hidden in his pocket to explode, so he isolated himself in a corner to make the fuse of his two bombs ready to explode, and he was already able to prepare one of the bombs and failed the other, so he said to himself, "It does not matter, the bomb One is enough. "

He had 10 minutes to get close to Hitler, enough time to get the job done perfectly.

Meanwhile, he hoped to blow up the Nazi leaders who were with Hitler.

But Hitler, for the second time, miraculously escaped, he decided suddenly to leave quickly and without warning, and the suicide colonel could not catch up with him.

After Gersdorf realized that his mission had failed, he hurried to the toilet, where he defused his bomb, which was ready to explode, and managed to disrupt the detonator in the second bomb.

Hitler thus escaped an attack without realizing it, and Gersdorf's comrades did not reveal his order even when they were arrested, after another attempt.

Gersdorf, who was 74 years old, witnessed the horrors of World War II. He died only in 1980.