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Charles Spicer notes that even after war broke out in September 1939, the amateur spies remained active. The Kordtbrothers planned to assassinate Hitler using a bomb from German military intelligence, but their plot was delayed by Georg Elser's independent bomb attack, which narrowly missed the dictator. Christie continued meeting with Göring, whom London briefly considered as a potential replacement for Hitler, though Göring remained a self-serving opportunist. Meanwhile, Tennant performed a dangerous mission to Norway, narrowly escaping exposure. Despite these brave efforts to stop the war from within, the British leadership failed to grasp the scale of the threat during the "Phony War." (13)
1945