Operation Valkyrie Crossword Puzzle Challenge
Across
- 1. Apart from Hitler himself, only the Chief of the Reserve Army since 1938, could initiate Operation Valkyrie.
- 3. attempted to kill Hitler by detonating an explosive hidden in a briefcase, however failed due to the location of the bomb at the time of detonation, the blast only dealing minor injuries to Hitler.
- 6. was a top secret German plan to recruit Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) for espionage and sabotage operations behind the Russian front line during World War II.
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- 2. was the code name for the planned assassination of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler by the anti-Nazi conspiracy of German Army officers and political conservatives
- 4. was a code name of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944
- 5. Operations plan issued to the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany to implement in the event of a general breakdown in national civil order due to Allied bombing of German