One against Hitler
Sir: Max Hastings, in his review of Pierre Galante's book (13 February), errs when he states that there was never any potential assassin in the ranks of the German armed forces prepared to eliminate Hitler at the cost of his own life. At least one, a young Wehrmacht officer, Axel von dem Bussche, tried to mount a one-man attempt on Hitler, no less than three times, each of which — if successful — would have resulted in his own death. For a variety of reasons, beyond von dem Bussche's con- trol, all failed. He himself would almost certainly have been executed in the wake of the 20 July 1944 Stauffenberg plot, had it not been for the fact that at that moment he was in hospital recovering from wounds on the Eastern Front.
Alistair Home
12 Markham Street, London SW3
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