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  • 5/29/2025
Georg Elser tried to assassinate Hitler in 1939 with a homemade bomb — and missed by just 13 minutes. One of history’s greatest "what ifs"... #HistoryShorts #WWII #Hitler #GeorgElser #1MinuteHistory

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00:00In 1939, a quiet German carpenter named Georg Elzor tried to change history.
00:07He planted a bomb inside a Munich beer hall where Adolf Hitler gave an annual speech.
00:12The bomb exploded exactly as planned, but Hitler had left just 30 minutes earlier.
00:18The blast killed eight people but missed its target.
00:21Elzor was caught, tortured, and eventually executed in 1945.
00:26His story was buried for decades.
00:30But today, he's remembered as the man who almost stopped World War II alone.

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