Killing Hitler (62 page)

Hitler receiving the adulation of a Berlin crowd in 1938. The popular reaction to his diplomatic success at Munich further undermined the conspiracy.

‘POLAND IS NOT YET LOST…’

Franciszek Niepokólczycki (‘Theodore’)

Stanislaw Lesikowski (‘Forest’)

Jan Szalewski (‘Sable’)

Slawa Mirowska

Hitler touring a defeated Warsaw in 1939.

Hitler’s personal train
Amerika
: a target for Polish saboteurs.

Hitler on the platform for his 50th-birthday parade in 1939: an ‘easy rifle shot’.

Watching from the VIP stand: Noel Mason-Macfarlane, one of the earliest British advocates of assassinating Hitler.

Geoffrey Household, whose writing may have inspired the British plot.

James Joll: one of the architects of Operation Foxley.

Hitler walking on the Obersalzberg: at risk where he felt most secure.

Alexander Foote: ‘innocent sports’.

Dmitri Medvedev, photographed behind German lines in 1943.