Operation Valkyrie, 69th Year Anniversary!

Operation Valkyrie was a famous failed assassination attempt to claim Adolf Hitler's life. On July 20th, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Major General Henning von Trascow, and Friedrich Olbricht attempted to take full control of all German cities,  disarm he SS and arrest and contain all major Nazi leaders such as Himmler, Goebbels, and Speer once Hitler was assassinated by the explosion of a bomb. Although the assassination attempt was a major fail, Stauffenberg, Trascow and Olbricht did not give up their lives in vain.

Here are links for further research:
1. Jewish Virtual Library:  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/julyplot.html
2. Yad Vashem: http://www.yadvashem.org/
3. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org