Operation Foxley
Operation Foxley was a 1944 plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler. It was conceived by the British Special Operations Executive. The plan was to assassinate Hitler during his morning exercise, as he walked unprotected to the Teehaus on the Mooslahnerkopf Hill from the Berghof residence.
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Operation Foxley was a 1944 plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler. It was conceived by the British Special Operations Executive. The plan was to assassinate Hitler during his morning exercise, as he walked unprotected to the Teehaus on the Mooslahnerkopf Hill from the Berghof residence. The scheme called for the SOE to parachute a German-speaking Pole and a British sniper into Austria. A sniper was recruited and briefed, and the plan was submitted. The proposals for the operation was submitted in November 1944 but was never authorised due to a division within the British government as to whether the removal of Hitler from the command of the Third Reich was a sound course to follow to expedite its military defeat.
By then, he was considered to be such a poor strategist that it was thought possible that candidates who would be in line to succeed him might present more of a challenge to the Allied war effort. The debate in the UK government divided opinion and so the op was not authorised.
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