What if Operation Valkyrie had been carried out to its fullest extent? IOTL they nearly did so despite Hitler surviving. What if they actually had carried it out?
What if Operation Valkyrie had been carried out to its fullest extent? IOTL they nearly did so despite Hitler surviving. What if they actually had carried it out?
What if Operation Valkyrie had been carried out to its fullest extent? IOTL they nearly did so despite Hitler surviving. What if they actually had carried it out?
As soon Hitler is found to be alive the coup collapses regardless of whether the conspirator’s had secured Berlin or not, simply because the conspirator’s weren’t securing the city, they were using troops loyal to Hitler and acting on instructions issued ‘in the event of the Fuhrer’s death’ to secure the city.What if Operation Valkyrie had been carried out to its fullest extent? IOTL they nearly did so despite Hitler surviving. What if they actually had carried it out?
Nobody would obey them because they had no authority over the troops they were ordering around if Hitler was alive. They troops they were hoping to take power with would probably be the same ones who would take them out and shoot them.What if Operation Valkyrie had been carried out to its fullest extent? IOTL they nearly did so despite Hitler surviving. What if they actually had carried it out?
Then it would function as if he were dead; there wouldn’t be anyone to countermand the orders.What if Hitler is incapacitated?
There was no follow-up plan, they’d counted on the bomb killing Hitler and everyone else at the conference; which it would have done if it had taken place where it was expected to, in the concrete reinforced headquarters building rather than the small wooden building it was switched to. And as soon as the bomb went off the entire area was swarming with Hitler’s security forces.What if in the chaos they manage to finish the job and kill Hitler for real?
That is something they did manage to do for a while. The problem remains the same though; Hitler will move to where he can get to a working phone line and the house of cards collapses.Or at least cut off his communications with the outside world?
Yes, Major Otto Remer.Didn't Goebbels put the commander of a key military unit in Berlin on the phone with Hitler and Hitler's voice sufficed to convince this officer that the plot had failed?
The panzer cadets at Potsdam under Guderian or SS units launch a counter coup and kill the conspiritors.
Nazi Germany implodes allies win earlier.
Undoubtedly. 'The Third Reich had fought the Allies and Communists to a standstill and was poised to unleash new wonder weapons that would have turned the tide when the conspiritors betrayed Germany.'Do we get another stab-in-the-back-legend from this? Stuff like "we lost because our Fuehrer wasn't there to guide us anymore!"