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Hi!

I found a Web site which listed no fewer than 35 assassination attempts against Hitler. One of them was an attack by one of his own SS men:

1935, Date Unknown
Berghof
Shooting
Heinrich Grunow

Heinrich Grunow was one of Hitler's SS Bodyguards. It is thought that he was seeking revenge for the Night of the Long Knives murder of SA leader Ernst Rohm. He knew that Hitler was returning to Berchtesgarten and hid at a point where the car had to slow down. As the car slowed Grunow fired shots at the car hitting the man in the back seat. He then shot himself. Unfortunately for the assassin Hitler was driving the car and it was his chauffeur sitting in the back seat.

What would have happened if Hitler had been killed in this attack (the chauffeur had been driving as usual, so this seems very plausible)? The Nazis are in power, and they're going to need another charismatic leader to keep their agenda going.
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