Tuesday 06 October 2015   Philipp von Boeselager  Philipp von
Boeselager, who died on Thursday aged 90, was the last surviving
conspirator in two failed attempts to assassinate Hitler during
the Second World War, including the July 20 plot for which most
of his co-conspirators were executed.  Boeselager was one of
eight Wehrmacht officers who planned to shoot Hitler and the
head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, on a visit to the eastern
front in March 1943, but the plot was called off in Himmler's
absence.  In July 1944 Boeselager and his brother Georg were
among 200 men and women involved in a second assassination
attempt when a bomb was planted under a table in Hitler's
eastern headquarters in East Prussia, now part of Poland, known
as the Wolf's Lair.  The bomb exploded on July 20, but the Nazi
leader escaped with slight injuries because an officer had moved
the briefcase containing the explosives behind a massive oak
table leg, which largely protected Hitler from the full force of
the blast.  Claus Schenk von