Later in July 1944, Schaub was not present during the military briefing in a Wolfsschanze barrack in which a bomb exploded in an attempt on Hitler's life, killing four people and injuring twenty others.

Schaub was ordered to leave the Führerbunker in late April 1945 and destroy all of Hitler's personal belongings and papers.

[4] By the end of the war, Schaub found work as a contract worker at the Munich Central Supply Office.

[3] After defeat in World War I, Germany was plunged into bankruptcy, social injustice, poverty, crime and mass unemployment.

[5] During the Great Depression, Germany saw the creation of a number of extremist political and paramilitary associations, representing both the far-left and the far-right.

[1] The political program of the party was essentially a rejection of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and an embrace of antisemitism and anti-Bolshevism, driven by Adolf Hitler and his world view.

[1] Thereafter, Schaub looked after confidential papers, carried money for Hitler's use and provided both secretary and security duties.

Known as the Beer Hall Putsch, the coup attempt by Hitler and his paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA) troops failed to take control of Munich.

[15][16] He later became Hitler's chief aide and adjutant (Chefadjutant des Führers) in October 1940, replacing Wilhelm Brückner.

[18] Part of Schaub's duties was to give day-to-day operational orders to Hitler's personal protection chief, Johann Rattenhuber of the Reichssicherheitsdienst (Reich Security Service; RSD).

Stauffenberg had his opportunity on 20 July 1944 at a military briefing at Hitler's East Prussian headquarters known as the Wolf's Lair (Wolfsschanze).

He rushed over to find Hitler, who survived with only minor injuries, as did other men present, who were shielded from the bomb blast by the conference table leg.

Hitler also ordered Schaub to burn the contents of the dictator's personal safes in Munich and at the Berghof on the Obersalzberg.

[3] After the war, while possessing false identification papers and introducing himself as "Josef Huber", Schaub was arrested by American troops on 8 May 1945 in Kitzbühel, and remained in custody until 17 February 1949.