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Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven
July 26, 1944
Member of the German resistance (1899–1944)
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Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, born November 10, 1899 in Courland, died July 26, 1944 in Prussia, was a German baron and colonel who procured the explosives for the July 20 attack on Adolf Hitler. He committed suicide before the Gestapo could arrest him.
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- Anniversary · July 26
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