Bangkok--21 Jan--Image Impact
Program Title: The Attempt on Hitler
Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions (A23) and (D48)
Telecast date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Telecast Time: 10.00 p.m. (Thai)
Rastenburg, 1944
Although there had been two previous attempts to kill Hitler, including poisoning a bottle of Cointreau on his aircraft, the assassination attempt which nearly worked at his Prussian forest hideaway in Rastenburg resulted in the perpetrators being strangled with piano wire strung from meat hooks.