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There was at least one attempt on his life by one of his top staff, a suitcase bomb. Most of his staff hated Hitler.
For example, Field Marshall Rommel was one of Hitler's best, but he learned, in 1943, about the existence of the concentration camps (which was actually a pretty well guarded secret, even within Hitler's military), and he came to believe that Germany must be defeated. He was actually part of a conspiricy of the military to oust Hitler and make peace with the Allies, and end the war.
He was injured in an allied raid, and a few days later, the suitcase assassination attempt happened. It wasn't actually Rommel's group that moved against him (there were more than once group of consiprators trying to oust Hitler) but Rommel's defeatist attitudes were known to Hitler, and Rommel was forced to commit suicide (his death was originally blamed on the wounds from the allied raid).
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