Speaking of the recent attempt of Adolf Hitler’s life, Mr. Churchill said with an acid grin:
“They missed the old bounder (a rough approximation the word Churchill used) - but there’s time yet.
Kind of like what Stalin said when he heard Hitler was really dead:
“So, that’s end of the bastard.”
I think of playing sports, in a game where you start to get momentum on the other team and are getting a lead. When you watch the other team start carping and pointing fingers at each other, you know you’ve won. It becomes a run out the clock situation. That’s probably how the allies feel about the Germans right now.
In the last few years of the war, the Allies made no attempts on Hitler’s life or attacked his HQs. Because of his constant strategic blundering, AH was worth more alive than dead to the Allied war effort. And for precisely the same reasons, those most interested in assassinating AH were to be found within the ranks of the German military itself.