Operation Foxley: How Did the British Plan to Kill Hitler?

PRO Ref: Source 1-3 - HS 6/624

GCSE: Modern World Syllabuses

The Snapshot involves quite a lot of reading, and the use some unfamiliar words and terms. However, the pupils are given a rare opportunity to work with some of the most exciting documents to be released at the Public Record Office for years. This should fire pupils’ imagination and interest in History. It is advised that you familiarise yourself with the documents and the questions, so that you can provide help and guidance. The task would also benefit from having some prepared tables (see below) and maps printed off and distributed to pupils.

The task can be extended in a variety of ways:

• It would suit group work to help the pupils cope with the volume of the material.
• Pupils could also compare their findings and debate which is the best mission and why.
• An interesting angle for the pupils to look at is why it might have been better to let Hitler live; again this could be debated in class.
• For homework, the pupils could be set the task of finding out about other assassination attempts on Hitler, in particular the one in which he was injured.

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Operation Foxley: How Did the British Plan to Kill Hitler?

Will the Plan Succeed?