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Articles by Keith Ablow, MD

Inside the Mind of the Colorado Family Killer

August 20, 2018 Keith Ablow, MD 0

Chris Watts, of Colorado, now has been charged in the murders of his pregnant wife Shannan and daughers Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. Already calls are […]

The Tragedy in Florida Has Nothing to Do with Guns

February 16, 2018 Keith Ablow, MD 2

Those who are trying to take political advantage of the tragedy in Parkland, Florida to advocate gun control measures seem to be ignoring the fact […]

Golfer Paige Spiranac Wanted To Be Taken Seriously, So She Stripped Naked

February 14, 2018 Keith Ablow, MD 0

I have to agree with Fox News Contributor Britt McHenry, who sparred today over Twitter with golfer Paige Spiranac.  It seems Spiranac, who has come […]

Yes, Congress Should Shut Down NPR and PBS

February 13, 2018 Keith Ablow, MD 0

President Trump has proposed cutting all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports NPR and PBS.  Congress should approve, effectively shutting down […]

Rx America: Healing the American Psyche Once the Clinton Coup is Revealed

January 24, 2018 Keith Ablow, MD 1

It is now very conceivable that the coming months will reveal that the 2016 election marked an attempt by government officials within the FBI, the […]

Finally, an American Jihad

January 2, 2018 Keith Ablow, MD 0

Iran is under siege by its own people.  North Korea will either come to its senses or be destroyed.  Israel and America are unified, as […]

Kendall Jenner Sexually Harassed Me Today

December 28, 2017 Keith Ablow, MD 0

POPSUGAR, a celebrity website published photos today of Kendall Jenner, essentially naked from the waist up, with jeans hiked up so high that the outline […]

The Truth: Men Are the Aggrieved Gender, Not Women. We Just Don’t Get All Militant About It.

December 27, 2017 Keith Ablow, MD 0

I know that 2017 was the year of women fighting back against sexual harassment.  Women felt, in many cases rightly, that they were exposed to […]

Could it all Come Down to Balls?

December 27, 2017 Keith Ablow, MD 0

I’m thinking back to the Republican primaries and the Presidential election of 2016.  Many issues were raised, from taxes to military funding to international relations.  […]

LeBron James Just Proved He’s a Loser

December 18, 2017 Keith Ablow, MD 2

LeBron James is a great basketball player who could also be the poster boy for narcissism in America. James apparently believes that being able to […]

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

The view of destroyed interior of briefing room in Hiler’s headquatter Wolfsschanze near Rastenburg (Kętrzyn) in East Prussia; from left to right: Heinz Linge of the SS, Martin Bormann (Hitler’s private secretary), Julius Schaub (Hitler’s chief adjutant), Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, and General Bruno Loerzer, accompanied by a Luftwaffe guard — July 20, 1944. (Bundesarchiv / Wikipedia Commons)

July 20, 2018 | 1944: The July 20 Plot

On this day in 1944, Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him.

High German officials had made up their minds that Hitler must die. He was leading Germany in a suicidal war on two fronts, and assassination was the only way to stop him. A coup d’état would follow, and a new government in Berlin would save Germany from complete destruction at the hands of the Allies. That was the plan. This was the reality: Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, chief of the army reserve, had been given the task of planting a bomb during a conference that was to be held at Berchtesgaden, but was later moved to Hitler’s “Wolf’s Lair,” a command post at Rastenburg in Prussia, the Führer’s headquarters nearer the Eastern Front. Stauffenberg planted the explosive in a briefcase, which he placed under a table, then left quickly. Hitler was studying a map of the Eastern Front as Colonel Heinz Brandt, trying to get a better look at the map, moved the briefcase out of place, farther away from where the Führer was standing. At 12:42 P.M. the bomb exploded. When the smoke cleared, Hitler was wounded, charred, and even suffered the temporary paralysis of one arm — but he was very much alive. He was even well enough to keep an appointment with Benito Mussolini that very afternoon. He gave Il Duce a tour of the bomb site. Four others present died from their wounds.

As the bomb went off, Stauffenberg was making his way to Berlin to carry out Operation Valkyrie, the overthrow of the central Nazi government. In Berlin, he and co-conspirator General Olbricht arrested the commander of the reserve army, General Fromm, and began issuing orders for the commandeering of various government buildings. And then the news came through from Hermann Göring — Hitler was alive. Fromm, released from custody under the assumption he would nevertheless join the effort to throw Hitler out of office, turned on the conspirators. Stauffenberg and Olbricht were shot that same day. Once Hitler figured out the extent of the conspiracy (it reached all the way to occupied France), he began the systematic liquidation of his enemies. More than 7,000 Germans would be arrested (including evangelical pastor Dietrich Bonhöffer), and up to 5,000 would die — either executed or as suicides. Hitler, Himmler, and Göring took an even firmer grip on Germany and its war machine. Hitler became convinced that fate had spared him— “I regard this as a confirmation of the task imposed upon me by Providence” — and that “nothing is going to happen to me… [T]he great cause which I serve will be brought through its present perils and…everything can be brought to a good end.”

Adapted from “1944: Assassination plot against Hitler fails,” History.

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