THE LONE ASSASSIN : THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF THE MAN WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER
by Helmut Ortner

It's really too bad that Georg Elser's target was foiled on November 8, 1939. The man that should have been killed that day was Adolf Hitler. Instead, eight innocent victims died from a bomb blast.
Elser was a master carpenter who prided himself in doing high quality work. He was not interested in politics yet he understood that conditions for the working class had deteriorated under the Nazi regime and were only becoming worse. The only way to change it would be to eliminate the leadership: Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels. So, using his skills Elser began to assemble his explosive device. For
thirty-three nights, he worked on building the bomb in the Munich Beer Hall where Hitler was going to appear and give a speech.
The Lone Assassin is a tremendous book that keeps you riveted. Author, Helmut Ortner, sets the scene by writing about Georg Elser's life, what kind of a man he was, what drove him, what he believed in. Though he was uneducated, he was smart enough to realize what was happening to his country under National Socialism and he knew that he had to take justice into his own hands.
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