Smolensk Air Base

Smolensk
Smolenskaja oblast, Russia

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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