An open conservative anti-Nazi revolt in Germany during WWII?

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Many would also argue that public pressure in Britain would make Churchill (or probably someone else) sue for peace with Germany.

From the bottom up and the top irrelevant whether they were from the left or right. We all know that bombing cities galvanized support for the war, the media presented every new bombing as a martyred city in order to gain support. Before cities began to get hit in response to Churchill bombing German cities the war was distant and people were frustrated and angry that there was another war.

The government was worried e.g Kenneth Clark the head of films division at MOI said "the public had to be convinced of German barbarity", although the public were against Hitler they were not willing to have another devastating war just to defend foreign countries.

The Blitz and the propaganda machine which was created to exploit the bombings.

Do you know of any public surveys conducted by organisations other than the government that disprove my theory (that the British public were not in favour of the war prior to German bombing of the cities)?.

You appear to be arguing about the British support/view of the war. This thread is about German internal politics, isn’t it? About whether
if this revolt, like the Valkyrie plotters, were made up of Wehrmacht officers and soldiers who were mostly concerned about 1. and still wanted a traditional government, but just wanted the fascists out because they were messing up the country.
 
The main impetus behind this thread is whether or not if there could be neo-Junkers in the modern day agitating for the return of the pre-WWI state of things in Germany, in contrast to neo-Nazis. And since both movements would be presumably far right, they would divided up the right-wing space between them.
 
A revolt is deeply antithetical to the character of the Conservatives in Germany, and once conflict with the Soviet Union was at hand, I'd think it was almost impossible. The average German soldier in Russia believed he was fighting for German Christian Civilization against the Marxist hordes to the East. Anti-Slavic racism, and for that matter, anti-Semitism, were not things that made the German population grit their teeth and fulminate against the Nazis, but rather were things that bolstered support for the Nazi Party, because they were long standing elements of German society.

Germany during WW2, especially as time went on, was a particularly nasty and totalitarian police state in ruins from bombing and deprived from the total state dictation of the economy. By all intents and purposes, revolt should have been expected, but it did not happen, because ultimately the Soviet threat was considered far worse than home front deprivation.

If you want a Conservative revolt in Germany during WW2, you need the 30s to go a bit differently. Perhaps one of Hitler's annexations gets foiled or goes disastrously, like with armed resistance in Austria or Czechoslovakia causing serious casualties and revealing deficiencies in the German military. The Nazi Party's greatest selling point of popularity was the claim that they were the party of work and bread, as exemplified by the public works programs and remilitarization that drastically reduced unemployment. Whether the economy was recovering or not when they took over is besides the point; they did reap the credit. If hyperinflation happens again, or if the economy craps out during the public works programs, then they will have substantially less good will, and have to rely on terror much earlier than in OTL for everything. A Germany that blunders its way into becoming a pariah state with a general staff convinced that they will be annihilated in any war, and which economically sees little recovery in the 30s, might see a revolt or coup as being more possible.
 
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