The Canaris Cover-Up

He stated that an armistice with a German provisional government would include the complete withdrawal of Germany from occupied Europe and a holding of a line against Soviet aggression by Germany on the eastern front with the help of the allies.

IOW, the Allies would abandon their announced policy of unconditional surrender, betray their Soviet ally, switch sides and help the Germans retain all their immense gains in Eastern Europe, abandoning the Poles, Balts and others to their fate.

This would be in return for Hitler as an individual and withdrawal from Western Europe, conquest of which was not originally part of the Nazi plan anyway.

Other than under Coolidge and Reagan, the communists had high-placed people in every aspect of government, all the while they were trying to reassure the public that we were fighting a cold war.

I love history, and would love to have access to all these things to read. I read Witness, by Whittaker Chambers and I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Schirer. Now that I’m retired, I’d like to start reading more. Any suggestions?

My point was that he knew that he had only armed one of the bombs. He also knew that Hitler had to die. At that point he should have stayed right there in that bunker to ensure that thing was placed as close as possible to that monster.

Sometimes you have to be ready to give everything to save others.

That's quite true.

It has been reported how Hitler had eluded over twenty attempts to have him killed throughout the war through sheer luck and intuition. One attempt was to have a high ranking official blow himself up along with Hitler with the explosives hidden underneath his clothing on the day the Fuehrer was to inspect new German armed forces uniforms.

But that day, Hitler had cancelled the inspection. So, you're point is very well made.

My point about Stauffenbrerg being that there were some courageous, determined enough to give their lives up if it meant the death, the end of someone as egregiously evil as Hitler as you've cogently made mention of.

More so, Stauffenberg had already taken so many risks, the chances of him being killed in the facilitation of his efforts were so great that to make sure the bomb in the bunker did its deed would not have required that much more moral conviction to have otherwise remained.

And to further compound his flawed plan, at the end, despite everything he tried, his death accomplished nothing.

At least, staying with the bomb, he might have had the satisfaction to know he did not die in vain.

I mean, he was nearly found out, apprehended, in the ensuing attempt to escape by vehicle with an acomplice after leaving the suitcase-laden bomb(s) behind, as the sentry at the bunker's entranceway, refusing to allow his departure, given specific orders not to allow any one in or out of the bunker, an incredibly gripping scene straight out of Hollywood. You've seen these improbable Hollywood scenes of Americans impersonating high-ranking Nazi officials in pompous, histrionic style to get passed security measures, an attempt to fool an enemy adversary with palpably false orders that which the sentry would know better than to believe, somehow finally managing to secure his getaway literally only seconds before the blast.

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