This is an incomplete list of documented attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler.[1]
All attempts occurred in the German Reich, except where noted. All attempts involved citizens of the German Reich, except where noted. No fewer than 42 plots have been uncovered by historians.[2] However, the true number cannot be accurately determined due to an unknown number of undocumented cases.
| Date | Location | Attempted by | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel Kaiserhof (Berlin) | Unknown | Hitler and several members of his staff fell ill after dining at the revered Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin. Poisoning was suspected, but no arrests were made. Hitler himself seemed least affected by the alleged poisoning, possibly due to his vegetarian diet.[3] | |
| Berlin | Ludwig Aßner | Ludwig Aßner, a German politician and member of the Bavarian State Parliament, sent a poisoned letter to Hitler from France. An acquaintance of Aßner warned Hitler and the letter was intercepted. | |
| Berlin | Freikorps member Beppo Römer vowed to assassinate Hitler as revenge for the Night of the Long Knives but was turned over to the Gestapo before any concrete plan could be made.[4] He was imprisoned at Dachau until 1939. Römer was arrested once again for antinazi activities and eventually executed at Brandenburg-Görden Prison in 1944.[5] | ||
| Berlin | Dr. Helmut Mylius, head of the right-wing Radical Middle Class Party (Radikale Mittelstandspartei), had 160 men infiltrate the SS and begin gathering information on Hitler's movements. The conspiracy was uncovered by the Gestapo and the conspirators arrested. Mylius escaped arrest through the aid of influential friends, including Field Marshall Erich von Manstein.[6] | ||
| Berlin | The writer Edgar Jung, who due to his occupation as the speech writer of Hitler's conservative Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen had the opportunity to get close to Hitler, during the Spring of 1934 planned to shoot him as a first step of a scheme envisioned by himself and some associates to overthrow the Nazi Government. However, some of Jung's confidantes convinced him not to go through with his plan, fearing that being killed in an assassination might turn Hitler into a martyr and may thus render a dead Hitler even more dangerous than a living. Jung was arrested by the Gestapo on June 25, 1934, in his Berlin apartment and murdered in a forest North of the city during the night of June 30 to July 1, 1934.[7] | ||
| 1934–1939 | Charlottenburger Chaussee, Berlin |