Britain's intelligence service may have played a role in the 1944 attempt on the life of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, an author has discovered.
The unsuccessful Operation Valkyrie plot, which took place on July 20 in the penultimate year of World War Two and was masterminded by senior German officer Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, led to a planted suitcase bomb being detonated inside Hitler's Wolf's Lair headquarters.
Whilst the explosion killed four people, Hitler himself escaped with a perforated eardrum, meaning that von Stauffenberg's subsequent attempted coup failed and he was executed along with many of the other co-conspirators.
