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Amazon.com: The Plot to Kill Hitler: Brad Davis, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Ian Richardson, Kenneth Colley, Michael Byrne, Helmut.

In December the movie Valkyrie will be released. There is also a similar movie called the Plot to Kill Hitler. They tell the story of the July 20, 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler. This was more than just an assassination attempt, it was a military coup to take over the Nazi government of Germany. Their intent was to sue the Western powers for peace and continue to the war against the Soviet Union after they killed Hitler and forced the other Nazi leaders to give up power.

This makes a great wargame for those who have large collections of World War Two Germans. The people who were involved in the plot had troops standing by to take over radio stations, headquarters and arrest Nazi leaders. I played a miniature wargame and role playing game of this several years ago. We had three sides playing the game. One side was the Russian player who was conducting a regular wargame. The other side was several German players, more is better, and two of them conspired together to take over the government from the other two German players. Only the two conspirators knew the real nature of the game.

The two conspirators had to maneuver their forces into position while fighting the Russian player. Once they made their move they were in effect, fighting two enemies, the Russians and the other Germans. We gave them the lessor numbers of forces so that the Germans loyal to Hitler would be that much more difficult to overcome. Just as in real life the conspirators lost the game, but it was close.