What country of origin does Operation Spark and Henning von Tresckow have in common?
Operation Spark (1940) Operation Spark (sometimes translated as "Operation Flash") was the code name for the planned assassination of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler by the anti-Nazi conspiracy of German army officers and political conservatives, known as the "Schwarze Kapelle" ("black band") during World War II. The name was coined by Major General Henning von Tresckow in 1941. He believed that because of Hitler's many successes up to that time, his personal charisma, and the oath of personal loyalty to him sworn by all German army officers, it would be impossible to overthrow Hitler and the Nazis while Hitler lived. But Hitler's death would be a "spark" - a signal that it was time to launch an internal coup d'état to overthrow the Nazi regime and end the war.
Knut Haugland Knut Magne Haugland, DSO, MM, (23 September 1917 – 25 December 2009) was a resistance fighter and noted explorer from Norway, who accompanied Thor Heyerdahl on his famous 1947 "Kon-Tiki" expedition.