Most familiar with the history of the second world war are aware of the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944. But this is the first time I heard of one a year earlier. If the story is true, it's ironic that the Fuehrer was saved by a British bombing raid.

Ah, what would the armistice terms have been in November 1943? Would the Western Allies and the Soviets have agreed on a policy, or would each side have made a separate peace? Would the US have been willing to negotiate a peace with the Japanese on the terms the latter would have accepted?

There's a great alternate-history novel or two.

Indeed. Harry Turtledove, call your office. The shade of Philip K. Dick is on line two ...

For a starting point, see this map of the Eastern Front and this map of Italy.

So, the uniforms get destroyed and the conspirators simply quit? Sure, it takes effort to coordinate a coup but why didn't they try again?

By that point in the war, Hitler was one of the reasons the Allies were winning. IIRC, the 1944 assassination attempt by the German staff was more because they felt Hitler was costing them the war, and that by removing him they could start being more effective - thereby allowing the General Staff to negotiate for peace from a position of (relative) strength.

There were actually three or four attempts on Hitler's life. One attempt, on March 13, 1943, included actually placing a bomb on Hitlers plane before he flew back to his headquarters in East Prussia from Smolensk. Hitler boarded the plane and arrived safely, the detonator cap on the bomb was a dud.

I am suspicious of bombshell historical discoveries which are big enough to get press coverage while also involving elements which are common today, but not at the time. "Suicide bombers" were not exactly a common element of Germany at that time, not even in the anti-Hitler movement. The bomb on the plane and the bomb under the table didn't work because they couldn't find someone willing to blow himself up to get Hitler.

Hitler makes headlines and there's practically a cottage industry in Germany for falsified history.

This is "news" in the sense of "the reporter hadn't heard of it before". When the fifties documentary series "The Twentieth Century" did an item on the 1944 attempt, one of the people they interviewed was von dem Bussche. Digging out my copy of Peter Hofmannn's standard history _The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945_ (1969, 1977), von dem Bussche's story is on Pages 323-328.

In the lead up to the 1938 coup attempt (this one got within half an hour of going off but Chamberlain caved in just too soon; see Terry Parssinen's _The Oster Conspiracy of 1938_ (2003) for details) von dem Bussche had been responsible for keeping pro-Nazis out of a key military unit, so he was hardly a Hansi-come-lately. What made him want to blow himself up was seeing an SS unit provide landfill for a landing field by shooting a thousand Jews.