Plotter recalls failed attempt to kill Hitler

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REUTERS , Berlin

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist had a vision of eternal damnation as he was taken in for questioning at Gestapo headquarters in Berlin over the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944.

"I thought of the lines from the Divine Comedy: `Abandon hope, all ye who enter here,'" Kleist said, referring to the inscription over the gates to hell described in Dante's medieval opus.

Sixty years ago, Kleist was a 22-year-old army lieutenant and part of the largely military conspiracy which carried out a bomb attack on Hitler and attempted a coup d'etat in Berlin.

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[bigbillhaywood]

1. A true hero. Remember Col. von Stauffenberg

[bobbieinok]

2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one brother and 2 brothers-in-law and uncle