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The failed assassins.(Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots to Kill the Fuhrer)(Book review)
Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots to Kill the Fuhrer
by Roger Moorhouse;
Vintage, 2007, $30.
THE DIFFERENCE between murder and assassination is clear-cut. It depends entirely on the victim, not the perpetrator. Anybody can be murdered, but only important people can be assassinated, though the outcome is identical. The importance of victims can be political, moral, religious or financial. Some assassins succeed (those of Caesar, Lincoln, Rathenau, Mussolini, Kennedy, Martin Luther King are prime examples) but many fail. All attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed; he seemed to have devilish good luck on his side, so that ...
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