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Robert Bernardis

August 8, 1944

Austrian resistance fighter involved in the attempt to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler in the July 20 Plot in 1944

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Robert Bernardis was an Austrian lieutenant colonel in the general staff of the German Wehrmacht. As a resistance fighter against National Socialism, he was involved in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 and the subsequent military coup attempt by calling Operation Walküre in the parts of Military District III outside the city of Berlin.

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  • Anniversary · August 8

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