Georg Elser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939
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Place of Birth: Hermaringen, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany
About Georg Elser
- Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich (known as the Bürgerbräukeller Bombing).
- Elser constructed and placed a bomb near the platform from which Hitler was to deliver a speech.
- It did not kill Hitler, who left earlier than expected, but it did kill 8 people and injured 62 others.
- Elser was held as a prisoner for more than five years until he was executed at the Dachau concentration camp less than a month before the surrender of Nazi Germany.
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