Operation long jump: Hitler's Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin

In 1943, with Nazi Germany reeling from catastrophic defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler allegedly approved one of the most audacious assassination plots in history — a plan to kill Roosevelt, Churchill, AND Stalin simultaneously. All three Allied leaders. In one city. In one strike. Operation Long Jump, as it has come to be known, was an alleged German scheme to eliminate all three leaders in a single, devastating strike. The plan reportedly relied on a sophisticated intelligence network already embedded in Iran, a country that, despite Allied occupation, remained a hotbed of Axis sympathizers and covert operatives. German intelligence services, operating under a fractured and rivalrous Nazi security apparatus, are said to have activated assets in Tehran to support the mission — a logistical undertaking of enormous complexity in the middle of a world war. Yet the operation never came to fruition, and the reasons why remain a matter of significant historical debate. Soviet intelligence claimed credit for uncovering and dismantling the plot before it could be executed. Roosevelt, meanwhile, was persuaded to relocate from the American legation to the Soviet embassy, ostensibly for security reasons — a move that, intentionally or not, placed him squarely within the reach of NKVD surveillance and raised uncomfortable questions about Allied trust and communication security. The validity of Operation Long Jump has been questioned by historians ever since. British and American intelligence agencies expressed skepticism at the time, and the absence of corroborating German documentation makes the plot difficult to verify. Much of the evidence originates from Soviet sources, including confessions extracted by the NKVD through methods that were notoriously coercive. Historians point out that the operation, as described, would have been logistically near-impossible given the wartime conditions of 1943. Compounding the intrigue is the context of Roosevelt's rapidly deteriorating health, which made his presence at Tehran symbolically vital yet physically precarious. The conference went ahead, the leaders survived, and the war continued on its course — leaving Operation Long Jump as one of history's most compelling, and most contested, what-ifs. Don't forget I have a Youtube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbp8JMZizR4zak9wpM3Fvrw/join or my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pacificwarchannel where you can get exclusive content like "What if Japan invaded the USSR during WW2?"