Operation Foxley

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Operation Foxley was a code name of the

Public Records Office following the 30-year confidentiality limit.[3]

Prior plans

At the start of World War II in 1939, British secret services had thought of scheming assassination plans against Hitler. However, the propositions were never equivocally initiated. As

Operation Anthropoid, Czech soldiers, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš shot Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD) on 27 May 1942. Heydrich died of his injuries on 4 June.[4] Trainings and planning for the operatives were done by SOE.[5][6] involving British stone of the first actual British plans to assassinate Hitler was to bomb the special train Amerika
(in 1943 renamed Brandenburg) he travelled in; SOE had extensive experience of derailing trains using explosives. The plan was dropped because Hitler's schedule was too irregular and unpredictable: stations were informed of his arrival only a few minutes beforehand.

Background

In June 1944, an anonymous informer tipped the SOE office in Algiers, North Africa, there would be an opportunity to kill Hitler as he was to visit a chateau in Perpignan, southern France.[7] Although the SOE did not take any action upon the suggestion, the message inspired Major General Colin Gubbins, head of the SOE, to device more surreptitious plan.[3]

Plan

Uniform of Gebirgsjäger (German mountain troops); the assassins would be disguised in dress like this.

Ultimately a

Nazi
flag visible from a cafe in the nearby town was flown.

The plan was to assassinate Hitler during his morning exercise, as he walked unprotected to the Teehaus on Mooslahnerkopf Hill from the Berghof residence. The scheme called for the SOE to parachute a German-speaking Pole and a British sniper into Austria. An "inside man" was recruited, the uncle of a prisoner of war named Dieser, who was a shopkeeper living in nearby (20 km) Salzburg, identified as "Heidentaler", who was vehemently anti-Nazi.[8] Heidentaler would shelter the agents and transport them to Berchtesgaden disguised as German mountain troops (Gebirgsjäger), from where they would make the approach to the vantage point for the attack.[9]

A

Maldon, Essex.[11]

Another plan was to put some tasteless but lethal poison in the drinking water supply on Hitler's train. However, this plan was considered too complicated because of the need for an inside man.

There was some opposition to the assassination plan among the British authorities, particularly from the Deputy Head of SOE's German Directorate, Lt. Col. Ronald Thornley. However, his superior, Sir

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill supported it.[citation needed
]

Hitler left the Berghof for the last time on 14 July 1944, never to return[citation needed]; six days later, anti-Nazi Wehrmacht officers attempted to assassinate him as part of the 20 July plot.

See also

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  2. ^ a b Philpot, Robert (2022-08-19). "A sniper in the woods, a hypnotized insider: UK spooks' secret plans to kill Hitler". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  3. ^ a b Miller, Marjorie (1998-07-24). "Britain Reveals Plot to Kill Hitler". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  4. ISSN 0740-2775
    .
  5. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  6. ^ "Czech pride in Jan Kubis, killer of Reinhard Heydrich". BBC News. 2012-05-23. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  7. ^ "As WWII waned, British considered killing Hitler". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  8. ^ Russell, Shahan (6 January 2016). "Britain's Plan to Kill Hitler By Having a Sniper Shoot Him During His Daily Walk To The Tea House". Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. ^ "Operation Foxley: Kill Hitler!".
  10. ISBN 9781473838383
    . Retrieved 26 September 2018 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Mustermann, Erik (2014-07-31). "Luger Pistol Meant for Hitler Assassination". WAR HISTORY ONLINE. Retrieved 2021-12-14.

Further reading

External links
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