Failed Assassinations of Hitler
How close did Adolf Hitler come to being assassinated?
4.1 (17)
69 mins
Discover the multiple failed plots to kill Hitler, from insider conspiracies to daring resistance efforts. Uncover how near-successes and critical failures allowed him to survive and prolong one of history’s darkest regimes.
Ep 1:
The Devil's Luck Begins
Over forty plots, one impossibly lucky dictator: we trace Hitler's paranoid security and the earliest chaotic attempts to kill him, from beer halls to a fatal case of mistaken identity.
Ep 2:
The Lone Wolves Who Almost Won
A theology student convinced Hitler was Satan and a lone carpenter with a year-long plan both came agonizingly close—until fate, and a crowd's raised arms, intervened.
Ep 3:
Spies, Bombers, and the Vatican Gambit
Britain, Stalin, and Polish saboteurs all hunted Hitler, while inside Germany, generals secretly courted the Vatican and Britain to sanction a coup before war engulfed Europe.
Ep 4:
Valkyrie: The Bomb That Almost Worked
A frozen bomb, a suicide volunteer, and finally Stauffenberg's briefcase at the Wolf's Lair—the true story of Operation Valkyrie's desperate, nearly-successful strike against Hitler.
Ep 5:
Busting the Bunker Myth
MythBusters puts the famous 'open windows saved Hitler' theory to the test, revealing the real reasons he survived—and the Allies' chillingly strategic decision to let him live.
Ep 6:
The Doctor Who Poisoned a Führer
The assassin who came closest wasn't a soldier or spy—it was Hitler's own trusted physician, whose reckless drug cocktails slowly unraveled the dictator from within.
Discussions (5)
Tate
Level 6 · 4 mo agoDr. Morell was his dealer
Sally
Level 7 · 4 mo agoWait I read a book on this and the drug part is 100% true. His doctor literally pumped him full of meth every single day lol.
Chance
Level 6 · 4 mo agoMfer really dodged 40 assassins just for his own doctor to casually pump him full of meth and peasant shit everyday until his brain melted. Morell really pulled off the ultimate inside job lol
