By Hans Bernd Gisevius
Whilst on July 20, 1944, a bomb—boldly positioned inside of Hitler’s headquarters by way of Colonel count number Claus von Stauffenberg— exploded with no killing the Führer, the next coup d’état opposed to the 3rd Reich collapsed. The conspirators have been summarily shot or condemned in express trials and sadistically hanged. one of many few survivors of the conspiracy was once Hans Bernd Gisevius, who had used his positions within the Gestapo and the Abwehr (military intelligence) to extra the anti-Nazi plot. Valkyrie, an abridgment of Gisevius’s vintage insider’s account To the sour End, is an intimate memoir as riveting because it is phenomenal.
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At the same time, it abolished the existing PVO fronts and armies and replaced them with two new PVO Fronts (the Western and Eastern), which covered all of the European Soviet Union. In addition, the GKO assigned all other existing PVO armies and corps, division, and brigade regions to four new PVO zones, each subordinate to a military district commander. The reformed structure was in transition on 1 July 1943, with the Moscow PVO Front still in existence. Figure 10 shows the PVO organization on 1 July 1943.
