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On 20 July 1944, a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler unleashes a brutal purge across the collapsing Third Reich. As the Gestapo hunts for enemies real and imagined, Josef Wagner, once a powerful Nazi Gauleiter, is swept into a web of suspicion and vengeance.
From his rise as a regional powerbroker who helped shape Nazi rule and early deportation policies, to his growing isolation over faith, independence, and political rivalries, Wagner’s journey reveals the inner fractures of a regime devouring its own.
Arrested after his name appears on a list linked to the July Plot, Wagner disappears into the secret prisons of Berlin, where his fate unfolds amid the final days of Nazi Germany.

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“From Nazi Gauleiter to Condemned: Power, Faith, and the Fall of Josef Wagner”

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00:00In 1943 Henriette von Schirach was invited to the occupied Netherlands by friends in the German
00:06occupation forces. She later claimed, I heard screams outside the hotel late at night,
00:12so went out to investigate. I saw Jewish women and children being bundled into transportation
00:18to be deported. I then asked a German soldier what they were doing, to which he replied,
00:23What Hitler is doing in Holland is wrong. We have turned the friendly Dutchman into bitter enemies,
00:29which is a big mistake. Make sure you tell him this the next time you visit the Berghof.
00:34And she did. Henriette broke off her visit to the Netherlands and telephoned the Berghof,
00:41which was Hitler's mountain residence on the Ober Salzburg in the mountains of Bavaria,
00:45to make an appointment with Hitler. Years later, Henriette explained what had happened.
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