At least two of the attempts other than Stauffenberg’s came quite close IIRC. A bomb was placed in his personal aircraft made from captured British plastic explosive pressed into a bottle of cognac. Unfortunately, the cargo compartment where it was become cold enough during the flight to render it inoperative. A conspirator had to intercept the cognac bottle before it reached it’s “intended recipient” (a non-conspirator). Another attempt had a suicide bomber ready to accompany Hitler through a display of captured armaments. Hitler was usually very keen on keeping up on the minutiae of weapons development and was expected to dwell at length on the exhibits. However, this time he stalked past all of them without stopping, exiting the hall before the time the bomber had set on the fuse before hand. This fellow had to quickly excuse himself to a restroom to disarm.
@ragingloli. Whatever it was, it didn’t meet with the approval of the almighty and it just goes to show that my Fluther answers are not under God’s protection. And here I thought that I was special. What a downer.
@ragingloli: Moses did not cause the flood he warned people and gave them an option out. Hitler systematically murdered millions of people of a variety of religions, ethnic backgrounds, physical/mental ailments and ages. It’s rather offensive to compare the two.
@asmonet that is not what i said. when moses came to the “promised land” it was already occupied so he shorthandedly wiped out entire cities including the inhabitants. all that under God’s protection.
Lol except Hitler was a pawn, he was alive until the job was done. As for divine intervention, I’d say that everything in relation to Nazi Germany; the answer to the question’s “why did this happen” and “who gained what” and “what changed behind the curtains” – was willed by man. Unless god is the will of man then the answer to your question is no. And that sure is a depressing thought.
@mattbrowne well we know who is a wikipedia’ian haha. (but really it is a great site with lots of interesting PoV’s). That’s an interesting theory that I have thought about myself. For me the answer lies in much simpler laws : If it happens once, it must happen again. And when time is excluded from the equation, there is only pattern.
@TjHare – Well, I wouldn’t try quantum suicide. What if the copenhagen interpretation is correct after all? But Max Tegmark is an interesting guy. I expect more weird stuff from him.