> It would be interesting to speculate what would have happened had Operation Valkyrie succeeded. <
From what I’ve read, the plotters were almost as delusional as Hitler was. Most of them wanted to make peace with the western allies but continue the war with the Soviets.
And get this. They also wanted Germany to keep all the land Hitler had conquered in the east (Czechoslovakia, Poland, etc.). FDR and Churchill never, ever would have agreed to those conditions.
It was pretty much agreed, that they couldn’t allow the Germans to simply stop fighting and go home as was the case at the end of WWI.
The fear was Germans once again would feel ‘stabbed in the back’, and it would set up to happen all over again 20 years later.
The Allies were determined that Germany must be utterly defeated and occupied this time, and absorbed into whatever new world order was coming.