A bomb explodes in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich shortly after Hitler has left after a speaking engagement there. 8 persons are killed and 60 injured. Nazi propaganda, orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels, accuses the British Intelligence Service of being responsible for the attack. In fact, Otto Strasser, a former Nazi who opposed Hitler and fled abroad in 1933, is named as the person who placed the bomb in the famous Munich beer-house. The charge against Strasser enables Hitler to eliminate once and for all one of the remaining sources of internal opposition in Germany, the left wing. The man who actually planted the bomb was eventually identified to be Georg Elser, a German communist who made his living as a carpenter. Despite overwhelming support for the Nazi regime, strengthened by the successes in Poland, Hitler knows that he still has some powerful enemies in Germany. In addition to the uncompromising left, there is the church, both Catholic and Protestant, and a proportion of the old military hierarchy.
