Operation Foxley

After looking at the July plot, I got to thinking about this British idea to kill Hitler. It was simply shooting the man as he made his way down a lone path at Berghof. It involved a anti-Nazi shopkeeper, a German speaking Pole, a sniper being dropped into enemy lines by parachute and all the wonderful events that make a good action movie.

Now this is two questions, the first is WI it worked? Then if it did not work how would the British and allied commands react to the new thinking that Hitler should be killed? I assume the later is due to authorizing Operation Foxley, and changing the current thinking of a dead Hitler making the Nazi's fight harder.
 
The sniper would be a hero. It would be interesting to know what he did later...

I was thinking about that too. I mean assuming he gets out, and I see no reason why the sniper team could not lay low and sneak their way into Switzerland, or have another way out. You can instantly expect a promotion, or a couple of promotions. Hitler gone could open up the path for peace a little sooner, so the man would be not only the man who killed Hitler, but the man who ended the war.

So book deals? Politics? He gets really fat in an arm chair running covert ops? Who knows?
 
I was thinking about a political career or a career in the secret world. And depenting on who he is, things change a lot.
 
One of four things would probably happen:

1. With Hitler dead, the new German leadership decides to sue for peace. If it's lucky, Germany might get roughly the borders it has today, with demilitarized zones on either side and a massive reparations bill. Austria would probably fall under U.N. jurisdiction too.

2. The German leadership begins to fragment as a power struggle ensues over who will be Hitler's sucessor. You'd probably have Goering, Goebbels, Himmler and some of the military leadership involved in that one. With a divided command, the German army's collapse is all the quicker, and the Allies reach Berlin before year's end.

3. Now that Hitler's irrational plans are gone, the Wehrmacht is galvanised by more competent commanders. The army makes an orderly retreat within German borders, allowing it to fight on narrower fronts and extend the length of the European war.

4. Alternatively, maybe the new leadership attempts to make a separate peace with either the Allies or Soviets? It's unlikely to get it, since both sides probably feel that victory is inevitable, but on the off-chance they do, it would probably be the Allies who would take it IMO, because of public pressure.
 
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