Last man standing: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, pictured in 2010, the last surviving member of the main plot to kill Adolf Hitler, has died aged 90 The last surviving member of the famous briefcase bomb plot to assassinate Hitler has died aged 90. Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist took part in the July 20 conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler, a failed attempt on the Nazi dictator’s life in 1944. Von Kleist, who once volunteered to act as a suicide bomber to kill Hitler, died at his home in Munich on Friday. He became a member of the July 20 conspiracy, also known as Operation Valkyrie, after he was approached by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who eventually planted the bomb in Hitler’s conference room at Wolf’s Lair.
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Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist took part in the famous July 20 plot to kill Hitler
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He was the last surviving member of the failed assassination in 1944
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Von Kleist died aged 90 in his home in Munich on Friday
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