Boeselager managed to return his units to the front before, one by one, the other conspirators were rounded up, tortured, and executed.
When the bomb failed to kill Hitler, the SS launched a terrifying purge of senior army officers. Boeselager delivered the explosives and then led his unwitting men toward Berlin in order to carry out the coup d'etat. After one aborted attempt-in which Boeselager was assigned to shoot both Hitler and Heinrich Himmler-it was decided that a bomb would be used to assassinate the Führer. But in the summer of 1942, when he witnessed the regime's criminal brutality toward Jews and Gypsies, his patriotism quickly turned to disgust, and he joined a group of officers intent on killing Hitler. When World War II erupted, Philipp von Boeselager, son of an aristocratic Catholic family, fought enthusiastically for his country as a cavalry lieutenant.
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