4. Adolf Hitler
There were few men that more people wanted dead than Adolf Hitler. There were dozens of attempts to bring him down many of which the dictator survived by mere luck. Many within Germany that knew the dangers of the Nazi party and therefore assassination attempts started as early as 1921.
In 1935, Henrich Grunow attempted to kill Hitler by firing into the backseat of Hitler’s car as it drove by. Heinrich succeed in shooting the person sitting in the backseat, but at the time Hitler was driving the car and it was his chauffeur in the backseat. In 1937 a soldier put a bomb beneath the stage where Hitler was to speak. Knowing that Hitler liked to talk for extended periods, the soldier decided to go to the bathroom while he waited for Hitler to arrive. Unfortunately, he ended up locked in the toilet and could not detonate the bomb.
In 1943, Major General Henning von Tresckow and other sympathizers plotted to kill Hitler by blowing up with his plane with a bomb disguised to look like cognac. Tressckow asked Colonel Heinz Brandt if he would take the cognac to Berlin for him. Brandt agreed but put the bottles in unheated cargo, and the cold damaged the detonation mechanism. Another bomb attempt occurred in 1944 when Colonel Claus Count von Stauffenberg detonated a bomb while Hitler was holding a meeting. The bomb went off but Hitler survived the explosion.
In 1945, Albert Speer plotted to pump lethal gas into the ventilation of Hitler’s bunker. However, before he could get enough gas to make it through all the ventilation, Hitler doubled all security around the bunker, preventing Albert Speer from accessing the ventilation.