Germany celebrates resistance fighter who tried to assassinate Hitler The German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier inaugurates a memorial in Hermaringen, the birthtown of Georg Elser, who tried but failed to assassinate Adolf Hitler and a few other high-ranking Nazi members in a bomb attack in Munich on the 8th of November, 1939. \\nThe bomb he had placed in the Bürgenbräukeller exploded too late, Hitler having left the venue earlier than planned, but eight people were killed in the attack. \\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES