English Learning for Curious Minds | A More Interesting Way To Learn English

 

On 20 July 1944, a bomb ripped through a meeting room in Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair.
 
This episode tells how Operation Valkyrie *almost* managed to kill Adolf Hitler, and the vicious crackdown that came afterwards.
 
  • The Wolf’s Lair meeting on 20 July 1944
  • Claus von Stauffenberg’s injuries and role in the plot
  • Setting one bomb; briefcase placed near Hitler
  • Explosion at Wolf’s Lair; Hitler survives due to briefcase moved
  • Operation Valkyrie: reserve army plan blaming SS
  • A mixed group’s reasons to remove Hitler
  • Coup starts; Goebbels phones Hitler; Remer switches sides
  • Bendlerblock firefight, arrests, executions of plotters
  • Brutal crackdown: show trials, thousands arrested, many executed
  • Haunting “what if”: ways the plot almost succeeded

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/operation-valkyrie
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What is English Learning for Curious Minds | A More Interesting Way To Learn English ?

Are you looking for a more interesting way to learn English?

English Learning for Curious Minds is a podcast for intermediate-advanced English learners.

Learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving your English.

Every episode comes with an interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary and is spoken at a speed you can understand.

Join listeners from 189 countries and discover a more interesting way of improving your English.

Find the bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles, key vocabulary, and more at www.leonardoenglish.com