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*The two-pound time bomb that detonated in Hitler's East Prussian field headquarters on July 20, 1944 killed four men around him, but left a barely injured Hitler alive to take a terrible revenge. He had thousands of suspects rounded up — field marshals, trade-union leaders, ambassadors, mayors, army officers, politicians. Many were jailed or slain. The eight ringleaders were tortured for days by Gestapo experts. Finally. Hitler said: "It is my wish that they be hanged like cattle." The eight were stripped, and as they shivered in the chilly dawn, their necks were encircled by short, thin string attached to meathooks in the torture chamber in Plötzensee Prison. Each man was then dropped to strangle slowly. Nazi cameramen captured the convulsive spectacle on film, and that night Hitler ran off the movie for the enjoyment of himself and his guests.