I am wondering if there are any timelines or alt history books on what would happen if the Smolensk plot to kill Hitler had succeeded?
Thank you
"It came on 13 March 1943, when Hitler finally visited troops on the
Eastern Front at
Smolensk...Tresckow, however, had a backup plan. During the lunch in question, he asked Lieutenant Colonel
Heinz Brandt, who was traveling with Hitler, whether he would be good enough to take a bottle of
Cointreau to Colonel
Helmuth Stieff (who was not yet a conspirator at that time) at Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia as a payment for a lost bet. Brandt readily agreed. The "Cointreau" was actually a bomb constructed of a British
plastic explosive "Plastic C" placed into the casing of a British magnetic mine, with a timer consisting of a spring which would be gradually dissolved by acid.
[24] Before Hitler's
Condor plane was to take off, Schlabrendorff activated the 30-minute fuse and handed the package to Brandt, who boarded Hitler's plane. After takeoff, a message was sent to the other Berlin conspirators by code that
Operation Flash was under way, which they expected to take place around
Minsk. Yet when Hitler landed safely at his East Prussian headquarters, it became obvious that the bomb had failed to detonate (the extremely low temperatures in the unheated luggage compartment probably prevented the fuse from working). The message of failure was quickly sent out and Schlabrendorff retrieved the package to prevent discovery of the plot.
[25]"