Comments by "wayne antoniazzi" (@wayneantoniazzi2706) on "Shoot Hitler! Operation Foxley Assassination 1944" video.

There was a movie made in 1951 (or so) called "The Magic Face." In a nutshell, it's about an actor/impressionist who kills Hitler and takes his place, then starts making the decisions that lead to Germany's defeat. Kind of an obscure film now, the actor's played by Luther Adler, who also plays Hitler in the film about Rommel starring James Mason, "The Desert Fox." I found "The Magic Face" on YouTube, but it's a horrible print and painful to watch.
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@janstan8407 That sounds like "Man Hunt," starring Walter Pidgeon. I think that was done in 1941 or 1942. At the beginning Pidgeon's character, a big-game hunter, has a clear shot at Hitler in the beginning of the film but doesn't take it, kind of a "You could have been MINE Adolf!" thing. Needless to say, later he's sorry he didn't! The movie ends with him going back for another try.
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A sad example of "Too little, too late." If they knew THEN what we know NOW either the British, French, or Russians would have come up with a plan to waste Hitler in 1939 before the war even got started.
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Because a LOT of people are fascinated by it, people everywhere, throw in two world wars and they can't get enough.
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Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but since he was born in the year 1900 it's a certainty he's dead by now anyway and roasting in hell with his master.
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Quite true. According to that outstanding British TV series "Hitler's Bodyguards" the man in the British Embassy who proposed killing Hitler at one of the parades (In this case Adolf's 50th birthday parade) was the British military attache' himself, a British Army colonel. His contacts in the German Army had told him Hitler was a madman and was going to start a war at the first opportunity. The colonel even proposed doing it himself. And you're also right about the plan being rejected since "Such things just aren't DONE!" As I said in an earlier post, "If they knew then what we know now!" If you watch the film of the parade you can see the colonel in the reviewing stand with the other foreign military dignitaries. He doesn't look happy.
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@ottovonbismarck2443 You're welcome "Herr Kanzler!"
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Using a German rifle would have diverted suspicion as to who "Did the deed" and prevented reprisals against any senior Allied POWS in German hands. It would have also added to the disguise of those two British operatives.
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And people keep coming to see those sites not for Hitler worship, OK maybe a few (Very few) do, but because the man is so damn fascinating and terrifying. Even dead he still terrifies. He's like a real-life Count Dracula.
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@janstan8407 You're welcome! Honestly though, aside from the beginning I don't think it's a very good film, kind of dull and contrived actually, to my taste anyway. However, it was pretty popular at the time.
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That was a BIG part of the problem. How do you ask someone in good concense to undertake what would amount to a suicide mission? Getting in is easy, getting out is another matter.
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