20 July Plot - Participants at The Meeting

Participants At The Meeting

  • Adolf Hitler (1)
  • Lieutenant-General Adolf Heusinger - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Army (2)
  • General Günther Korten - Chief of General Staff of the Air Force (3) †
  • Colonel Heinz Brandt - Aide to General Heusinger (4) †
  • General Karl Bodenschatz - Hermann Göring's liaison officer at Führer Headquarters (5)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Heinz Waizenegger - Senior staff officer to Jodl (6)
  • General Rudolf Schmundt - Chief of the Army Staff Office (7) †
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Heinrich Borgmann - Hitler's army adjutant (8)
  • General Walther Buhle - Chief of Army Staff at the OKW (9)
  • Rear Admiral Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer - Hitler's naval adjutant (10)
  • Stenographer Heinz Berger (11) †
  • Captain Heinz Assmann - Naval staff officer in the OKW (12)
  • Major Ernst John von Freyend - Keitel's adjutant (13)
  • Major-General Walter Scherff - OKW historian (14)
  • Rear Admiral Hans-Erich Voss - Naval liaison officer at Führer Headquarters (15)
  • Otto Günsche - Hitler's SS adjutant (16)
  • Colonel Nicolaus von Below - Hitler's air force adjutant (17)
  • Lieutenant-General Hermann Fegelein - Waffen-SS representative at Führer Headquarters (18)
  • Stenographer Heinz Buchholz (19)
  • Major Herbert Büchs - Jodl's second adjutant (20)
  • Franz von Sonnleithner - Foreign Ministry representative at Führer Headquarters (21)
  • General Walter Warlimont - Deputy Chief of Staff of the OKW (22)
  • General Alfred Jodl - Chief of Staff of the OKW (23)
  • Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel - Chief of the OKW (24)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

† = Killed

All at the meeting except Keitel suffered perforated eardrums and Hitler had 200 wood splinters removed from his legs, his hair was singed and his uniform torn to ribbons. Scherff, von Puttkamer, Borgmann, Bodenschatz, Buhle, Jodl and Heusinger were also injured.

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