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To: jmacusa
Difficult to answer, would depend on who stepped in to take Hitler's place.

One of the reasons that the plan Bonhoeffer was involved in did not go forward was those involved could not get the head of the Army (Keitel, I believe) to agree not use the Army (this would be the old school Army leaders) to stand down as those plotting assumed leadership over the Nazi segments. That would include the SS.

The plotters feared a civil war could break out between the Nazi/Hitler loyalists and the Germans who were simply true Germans (i.e. not Nazi's).

29 posted on 03/05/2022 12:35:58 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: Michael.SF.
There was a point , late in the war when Hitler mouthed off to Josef “Sepp’’ Dietrich , head of The Leibstandarte Adolph Hitler, his own body guard, something about them being cowards and Dietrich had his men cut off their cuff titles but I don't know if the rest of the SS followed suit. Plenty of those bastards ran like hell to give themselves up to Americans.
30 posted on 03/05/2022 12:48:46 PM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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