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Herbert Bchs was a German air force Lieutenant General who was a Luftwaffe staff officer in Nazi Germanys Oberkommando der Wehrmacht during World War II. As second adjutant to General Alfred Jodl with the rank of Major he is notable for being present in the conference room when the Julyplot bomb exploded in 1944.

Bchs was born in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, where he graduated from the Catholic secondary school in 1933. He then studied economics at the Universities of Graz and Munich. He joined the Air Force in 1935 and became a fighter pilot. In 1939 at the oubreak of World War II he was an operations officer and in June 1941 he flew a Junkers Ju 88 during Operation Barbarossa and his right arm was injured by machine gun fire. OnNovember 1943 he was appointed as a General Staff Officer with the Wehrmacht Operations Staff at Adolf Hitlers headquarters. He briefed him on the air war at daily situation conferences and on one occasion had to report the loss of 300 aircraft.

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