In 1943, disillusioned German officers
planned to assassinate Hitler.
History hangs on skill or incompetence.
Disgruntled Nazi officers
plotted to gift der Führer
with a bomb in a whiskey package,
but the mis-wired detonator
on the plane didn’t go off.
An unnamed man did not do it right.
He must have been chosen
for his competence.
A dud bomb meant certain
death for the gifters.
When they arrested the doomed officers,
the failed bomber was among them.
Terrible grief in the prison
prior to the hangings.
I am sure he was very careful
and tried his best.
We can only guess if the lives
of millions of humans
may have been saved.
Originally published in Blood And Honey