Decapitation Strike on Nazis in March 1943

In general I agree, but the problem is with Hitler, Goering, and Himmler dead, the only Nazis with control over guns in a HIGHLY centralized state are dead; the opposition to the coup is headless, while the army, now severed of any loyalty to the Nazis, even if caught flat footed, isn't going to want to be led by any of the remaining Nazis.

The main problem, naturally, is the usual notion that one thing is the Nazi regime and another is the armed forces - as if there were no Nazis among the generals.
Even assuming that were true, and it wasn't, there would be plenty of generals who might think the best bet in this situation would be to play both sides, or to pose as a general who's faithful to our beloved late leader's ideals, in order to exploit the party machine against any other garishly uniformed competitors.

The other problem is the notion that only Himmler can command the Waffen-SS. There was a central command for the SS military units, led by a deputy of Himmler (Jüttner), and there were at least a dozen of men holding the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, which is one step below the rank held by Himmler. In an emergency, Waffen-SS units would defer to this command and these men, all the more so if the emergency included the murder of Himmler. The rear-area SS und Polizei HQs and battalions could provide plenty of gun barrels, etc.
 

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The main problem, naturally, is the usual notion that one thing is the Nazi regime and another is the armed forces - as if there were no Nazis among the generals.
Even assuming that were true, and it wasn't, there would be plenty of generals who might think the best bet in this situation would be to play both sides, or to pose as a general who's faithful to our beloved late leader's ideals, in order to exploit the party machine against any other garishly uniformed competitors.

The other problem is the notion that only Himmler can command the Waffen-SS. There was a central command for the SS military units, led by a deputy of Himmler (Jüttner), and there were at least a dozen of men holding the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, which is one step below the rank held by Himmler. In an emergency, Waffen-SS units would defer to this command and these men, all the more so if the emergency included the murder of Himmler. The rear-area SS und Polizei HQs and battalions could provide plenty of gun barrels, etc.
You certainly have a point, the German army had a number of officers that wee Nazis, especially among the junior officers...the thing is that they were Nazis because of Hitler, not because of the rest of the party. The ideology of the Nazi party was mostly "what Hitler says" which doesn't function well without Hitler. Now of course a lot of them will be angry about the coup killing Hitler, the question is what loyalty do they actually have to a leaderless party with no good replacement candidates? Certainly too the SS had other leaders, but who had the authority to lead the SS and get the rest to fall in line without Himmler or Heydrich...or Hitler? The problem for the SS too is the centralization and lack of a clear leader to rally the rest and prevent infighting.
So I'm not arguing the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth or that the SS was toothless, rather just that without Hitler and his immediate deputies there is a lot of disorder against a coup effort and no leader of the opposition, which means counter-coupists could end up inflight to find a leader as much as resisting a coup.
 
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