"We hear again and again that, if the attempt had succeeded, the only result would be the creation of another 1918"-SS Security Service after the Assassination Attmpt in 1944.
Richard J. Evans's final work on the Third Reich just came out, and he talks about German morale during the war. There's a fair bit of discussion about the coup attempt, and how people reacted. And the radical conservative state the plotters wanted to build.
In essence, it seems to me that any surviving plotter-led state would be a nasty, unstable regime which mourned the deaths of the Jews while openly admitting Europe was better off without them. It would not be friendly to parliamentary democracy, and rsemble Franco's spain, or perhaps Salazar's Portugal, much more than the FDR.
And it would have a huge embittered group of people who would think Hitler could've won the war. Combine it with reparations, political isolation, and ISTM that things could get nasty.
Thoughts?
Richard J. Evans's final work on the Third Reich just came out, and he talks about German morale during the war. There's a fair bit of discussion about the coup attempt, and how people reacted. And the radical conservative state the plotters wanted to build.
In essence, it seems to me that any surviving plotter-led state would be a nasty, unstable regime which mourned the deaths of the Jews while openly admitting Europe was better off without them. It would not be friendly to parliamentary democracy, and rsemble Franco's spain, or perhaps Salazar's Portugal, much more than the FDR.
And it would have a huge embittered group of people who would think Hitler could've won the war. Combine it with reparations, political isolation, and ISTM that things could get nasty.
Thoughts?
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