Killing Hitler (BBC-2 2003, Peter MacDonald, Kenneth Cranham)

Posted by By Alastair James May 29, 2019 TV

Documentary with dramatised sequences detailing a plan uncovered in recently de-classified papers to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

The dramatised sequences show an officer codenamed LB|X putting together various parts of the plan and modern day experts then discussed how successful it might have been and what impact it might have had on the eventual length of the war. The plan was never attempted.

UK | BBC Two | 1x90m | 30 March 2003

Writer and Director: Jeremy Lovering | Executive Producers: Roy Ackerman, Adam Kemp

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PETER MACDONALD as LB|X | KENNETH CRANHAM as Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies | KATE ASHFORD as Rachel | KEITH ALLEN as Mjr Gen Colin Gubbins | LARA BELMONT as Sandra

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