 this is a list of members of the 20 july plot, a coup d'Ã©tat which involved a failed attempt to assassinate adolf hitler. at least 7,000 people were arrested by the gestapo.william shirer, the rise and fall of the third reich, p. 1393. according to records of the fuehrer conferences on naval affairs, 4,980 people were executed.shirer, id. few of these are believed to be involved. the most prominent conspirators were ordered to be "hanged like cattle" by hitler. at the plÃ¶tzensee prison, those people were hung on symbolic meathooks with rope.in the name of the volk: political justice in hitler's germany by h. w. koch among those executed were two field marshals, 19 generals, 26 colonels, two ambassadors, seven diplomats, one minister, three secretaries of state, as well as the head of the reich police. __notoc__  ==a== *colonel otto armster (1891â1957), head of the counterintelligence ("abwehr") station in vienna; arrested on 23 july 1944 and held captive until the end of the war. liberated but was later arrested and imprisoned by nkvd until 1955. == b == * colonel general ludwig beck, chief of the german general staff (1880â1944); voluntarily committed suicide when the plot failed. he was to be arrested whilst the other captives were to be executed under the order of friedrich fromm. * lieutenant colonel robert bernardis (1908â1944) executed on 8 august 1944 * albrecht graf von bernstorff (1890â1945); executed by firing squad at gestapo headquarters, 22 april 1945shirer, p1393 * count gottfried graf von bismarck-schÃ¶nhausen, civil governor of potsdam (1901â1949), arrested and kept in a concentration camp. survived. * major count hans-jÃ¼rgen von blumenthal (1907â1944) hanged october 13, 1944. * lieutenant colonel (general staff) hasso von boehmer (1904â1945) executed 5 march 1945. * lieutenant colonel baron georg von boeselager, cavalry officer (1915â1944) killed in action 29 august 1944. * lieutenant colonel baron philipp von boeselager, cavalry officer (1917â2008) undetected. survived. * eugen bolz, state president of wÃ¼rttemberg till 1933 (1881â1945) executed (beheaded) 23 january 1945. * dietrich bonhoeffer, pastor and theologian (1906â1945); executed by hanging 9 april 1945. * klaus bonhoeffer, lawyer (1901â1945); executed by gestapo, 22 april 1945 * randolph von breidbach-bÃ¼rresheim * dr. eduard brÃ¼cklmeier, diplomat (1903â1944); executed by hanging 20 october 1944 * major baron axel freiherr von dem bussche-streithorst (1919â1993); made plans to assassinate hitler with suicide bomb. avoided detection and survived.shirer
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