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All these thread about a July 20th plot continue to return to the allied demand for unconditional surrender. So what happens post-war? Lets assume that Germany fights a bit longer and more effectively, the western allies get resisted a bit less, meaning no battle of the bulge. The Soviets get chewed up worse, but the end result is the same. The holocaust gets stopped in 1944 after the July 20th plot (or July 15th if that makes things easier ;)) and Germany is led by a military dictatorship until the end of the war. Perhaps they surrender sooner, sparing Berlin the worst of the Russian invasion (this also means a Volkssturm under military command not under Goebbels).

But what does this all mean post-war? Does Germany accept the blame if the Holocaust is not experienced by the western allies personally (meaning the camps are not around for them to liberate-all the surviving inmates are shipped east. All are liberated by the Russians, so the Americans have no direct knowledge of anything to do with it. The camps, including Auschwitz, have been razed and forests planted on top)? Do the allies indoctrinate the German people with the crimes of Nazism? What kind of power dynamic are we looking at? How are hitler and the nazis remembered?
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