Military Officer. General Friedrich Fromm, a highly decorated German military officer, was the Commander in Chief of the Reserve Army during World War II and responsible directly to Nazi Dictator leader Adolph Hitler. He earned recognition for his role in the 1944 attempted assassination of Hitler. From the mid-1930s there had been planned and failed assassination attempts of Hitler. He had become disillusioned with the management of the war with the Soviet Union battling on the eastern front, and as early as 1942, he wanted peace. A carefully planned assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944 failed with Hitler surviving the bomb blast, although four others had died. The next day, he had the five conspirators of the attempted assassination quickly captured, court martialed and sentenced. They were all immediately executed before giving evidence against him. For any role in the attempted assassination, the Gestapo arrested, according to sources, at least 110 suspects, which were not only military officers but politicians, priests, noblemen, farmers and diplomats, and most were eventually executed. After the homes of the conspirators were searched by the Gestapo, lists of names in diaries were found and gave evidence to his as well as other's involvement. On July 22nd, he was arrested and brought before the People's Court. He was executed at Brandenburg-Görden Prison by a firing squad for "cowardice against the enemy" and "failing to act against the plot." He had served in World War I and was a decorated lieutenant by the end of the war. After the war, he had remained in the military, serving under General Ludwig Beck, who was one of the captured conspirators. After the capture, he had given Beck a gun to commit suicide according to sources. He had been a recipient on July 6, 1940 of the highest award given by Nazi Germany, the Knight's Cross of The Iron Cross, yet was stripped of his military rank and awards prior to execution. Several Hollywood films have retold his story with the last being in 2008.