5 Unknown Assassination Attempts on Hitler Hitler miraculously survived each attempt Even though the bomb went off, Hitler was still alive. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg had failed in his assassination attempt on Hitler. In 1944, the war was going badly for Nazi Germany, and high-ranking military officials feared Hitler was leading Germany into complete destruction. To stop Hitler’s war machine, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg had placed a bomb underneath a table at Hitler’s “Wolf’s Lair,” but Hitler just barely evaded the explosion, saving himself. Stauffenberg’s Operation Valkyrie, his plan to overthrow the central government and assassinate Hitler, had failed. In...