("What if" in History - No. 4) July 17, 1944: NEW YORK TIMES breaks plot to assassinate Hitler

DFU "what if" in history | July 17, 1944 | Jonathon Risen (fictitious name)

[doug from upland]

PREVIOUS STORIES FROM JONATHON RISEN:

1- Navajo Code Talkers

2 – Manhattan project

3 - Operation Overlord

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Jonathon Risen, New York Times
July 17, 1944

Working on a tip from informants in Berlin, the TIMES has learned exclusively that there is going to be an attempt to assassinate German Fuhrer Adolph Hitler on July 20. Hitler will be at his headquarters in Rastenberg, East Prussia with other members of his senior staff.

The planned coup is known as the “July Plot.” It is being led by senior military leaders Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and General Ludwig von Beck. A senior officer, Colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, will place a briefcase bomb with a timer under a table next to Hitler. It will be set to detonate at approximately 12:40 pm local time.

After planting the bomb and departing, von Stauffenberg will fly to Berlin to join von Witzleben and Von Beck to take over using the German Home Army.

We will report additional details as soon as they are available from the scene.

Count on the NEW YORK TIMES for all your war coverage. If it's news, we will have it first.

[neodad]

FBI has ruled out terrorism in advance. BTW you ought to have a ping list for these updates.

[doug from upland]

Okay. Anyone wanting on the NEW YORK TIMES fifth column ping list for the "what if" stories let me know. I don't know how many more of these I will do.

[BipolarBob]

Wouldn't this have tipped off Hitler? and sort of bringing secret intelligence to the enemy at a time of war? MSM wouldn't do that would they?

[Democracy In Iraq]

These are BRILLIANT parodies! Thanks for sharing them.

[txroadkill]

When the New York Times revealed the NSA wire taps, it was paramount to revealing the existence of ULTRA during WWII.

[doug from upland]

Ask James Risen.

[ScaniaBoy]

Great fun - but much much too close to reality for comfort.

[weegee]

What has our nation come to when we plot the assassination of elected leaders of sovereign nations?

He should be caught and tried in a court of law.

< /sarcasm >

[karnage]

THESE ALL-TOO-REAL PARODIES ARE BRILLIANT.

[MikefromOhio]

I don't know.

If Hitler was dumb enough to not realize that we were gunning for his butt by this point and time, he was even a bigger idiot than I think he is.


But I notice that Operation Overlord is in your lists there. THAT would have been an unmitigated disaster for the Allies.

[doug from upland]

The German officers planned this one. What are the chances that James Risen would report a plot against Kim Jong-il today?

[doug from upland]

Hi, Mike. I hope you are doing well. Yep, after D-Day, and two serious previous attempts, I suspect Hitler was worried.

[ANGGAPO]

Yes, and they should be charged with treason for it. If it was some poor "dog face" that let something slip out it would be Leavenworth for a long stint.

[MikefromOhio]

yep.....

[chudogg]

Bush's fault?

[tom h]

count me in on the ping list -- the d-mned NYT is nothing better than a bunch of traitors. Charges of treasons are not beyond the pale.

[jmaroneps37]

Next: NYT breaks the story of a secret laboratory in the New Mexico desert. The times informer is an Army Sgt. know only as "David G." who has seen it personally. More to follow.

[vetvetdoug]

Imagine what would have happened if the Times had warned Yamamoto that there was a squadron of P-38's going to intercept him and shoot him down? The Times in its current traitorous mind frame, would not have hesitated warning the Japanese because that just wouldn't be fair to the Japs.