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State & history

Was geschah am 20. Juli 1944?

Translation: What happened on 20 July 1944?

  • ✕ Die Alliierten landeten in der Normandie. The Allies landed in Normandy. Your answer
  • B Hitler trat freiwillig von seinem Amt zurück. Hitler voluntarily resigned from office.
  • ✓ Widerstandskämpfer um Stauffenberg versuchten, Hitler mit einer Bombe zu töten. Resistance fighters around Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler with a bomb.
  • D Das Konzentrationslager Auschwitz wurde befreit. The Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated.

Not quite.

Das Attentat scheiterte. Viele Beteiligte des Widerstands wurden danach hingerichtet.

The assassination attempt failed. Many members of the resistance were executed afterwards.

Source: Geschichte: Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus, 20. Juli 1944

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