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Smolensk Air Base

Adolf Hitler arrived here on March 13, 1943, to visit the headquarters of Heeresgruppe Mitte. Officers at the headquarters planned an attempt on his life, but through a series of events the bomb was eventually brought in by plane. The bomb did not explode.

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