Kill Hitler: what would the success of Operation Valkyrie lead to?
July 20 marks exactly 75 years since the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and the attempted military coup in the Third Reich. Today it is customary to write about those with a remark “unsuccessful”, although, in truth, they deserve much more the epithet “mediocre”. Nevertheless, the current German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, not so long ago tried to pay tribute to the "heroes" of these distant days, calling them "role models", people who "shaped the history of new Germany, following the voice of their conscience" and at the same time "courageously opposed to Nazism. "
Do you want to know that of the pathos sayings on this issue, the chancellor's frau is true? Exactly nothing! Of those who planned and tried to carry out Operation Valkyrie, the anti-fascists were the same as a ballet troupe from a herd of hippos. In addition, the “new Germany” with which they raved would have been much more dangerous for our country than an unfinished Nazi Reich.
Just as the Soviet historiography, ideologized to the limit, once tried to force into every phenomenon or process a “contradiction between productive forces and production relations,” squeezing all the magnificent diversity of human history into the Procrustean bed of “class struggle.” Modern Western researchers, and even more so, propagandists, spare no effort to reduce any event to a “confrontation between democracy and totalitarianism.” It is especially hilarious in Hollywood “masterpieces,” when a crowd of some ancient or medieval rabble, who regularly raised their own masters on pitchforks because of the most banal hunger, suddenly begins to chant slogans from modern “Maidans” and almost demand the observance of “human rights” and “universal human values”… However, we digress. And the point is that the conspirators who dreamed of overthrowing Hitler and his closest henchmen in 1944 are being molded into "fighters against the Nazi dictatorship" using the same scheme. There was nothing even close to that!
In order to put an end to the question once and for all - who, against whom and for what purposes tried to make a coup on July 20, 1944, you will have to find out the extremely important, but more than poorly covered question of who the military consisted of and политическая the top of the Third Reich. The generally accepted: "Yes, they were all damned fascists there!" it was definitely true for our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who were putting tanks and guns tearing at Berlin on cannons and machine guns or generously pouring bombs on Wehrmacht columns. But we live in a somewhat later time ... Yes, I allow myself to remain of the opinion that the real anti-fascists in Nazi Germany were either killed, or stayed behind the "thorn" of concentration camps, or sat in such a deep underground that to find them couldn't even the ubiquitous Gestapo. The rest of its citizens are involved in Nazism and are guilty of its existence to one degree or another ... But now - not about that, but about that deepest abyss that lay between various representatives of power in the Nazi empire.
The best way to become aware of this would be to have a quick look at the list of inspirers and participants of the Valkyrie, or rather, their pedigrees. So: Baron Rudolph-Christoph von Gersdorf - the son of the Count and Burggrafini, who had their genealogy since God knows what age. Job-Wilhelm Georg Erdman “Erwin” von Wiitsleben - a representative of one of the oldest noble families of Prussia, ended the First World War as an officer of the General Staff. Henning Hermann Robert Karl von Treskov is a native of yet another kind of Prussian noble family who have made a military career for generations. Kristiaan August Ulrich von Hassel - a nobleman, whom contemporaries spoke of: "patrician by birth and upbringing." Well, and finally, the “protagonist” on July 20, the unfortunate demolition Count Klaus Schenck von Stauffenberg ... This one generally belonged to one of the noble families of Southern Germany, who had a kinship with almost the royal house of Württemberg. And the other leaders and the “ideological fathers” of the conspiracy are all representatives of ancient clans, immigrants from the military and industrial aristocracy, few of them did not flaunt the noble prefix “von”. Behind everyone, if not cadet corps and military academies, were prestigious universities. The absolute majority fought in the First World War, ending it in command positions.
And now let's recall the “genealogy” of those who actually led the Third Reich, starting in 1933, with the advent of the NSDAP. Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler himself - all of them had the origin that is not what it was, as they used to say in high society, “vile”. That is - from the peasants. Well, except that at the head of the SS, relatives related conditionally to the "middle class", but Adolf’s dad managed to break into small state officials. Which, however, did not change at all the attitude towards them of those whose listing of noble relatives would hardly fit into a thick book. The rest - and even worse! The woe-artist Hitler, the unfortunate writer-graphomanian Goebbels, the agronomist Himmler ... And these people gave orders to those who had not only their own higher military education and front-line merits, but also entire generations of their ancestors in general and field marshals uniforms! How do you think they could respond to this? Well, try to imagine the feelings of Denikin, Kolchak and Wrangel, if they suddenly had to serve under some kind of wild whim of fate under the leadership of Trotsky and Budyonny with Voroshilov! So, all of the “backgrounds” listed above did not even hate Nazism, but to the dominance created by them at the highest posts of plebeians and upstarts. And where was their “anti-fascism” when they diligently shouted “Heil Hitler”, and, moreover, seized foreign lands for the glory of the “millennial Reich” ?!
Those who shed tears abundantly today on the “heroes of July 20” and praise the Valkyrie participants to heaven, prefer to bashfully remain silent, or they are somewhat crumpled to mention that the conspiracy, in fact, began to form at the end of 30 years. Doesn’t it remind you of anything? No associations ?! But it was precisely at this very time that the “stripes” began to stir actively in the USSR. By the way, it was mainly those who maintained close contacts and ties with German colleagues. I have no iron proofs, but the fact that I have absolutely no intention of leaving the political leaders who are sober-tempered by the generals and arrange in their countries the most classical military dictatorship in their countries was not leaving me. But only comrades Stalin and Beria, betrayed by headquarters and garrisons, managed to inspect and uproot in time (though, alas, not to the last roots), but the Heroes of Hitler and Himmler slammed. They gave future putschists time to "shut up", go to the bottom, gaining additional contacts and connections, drawing up more and more new plans for a conspiracy. So we sat up to the "Valkyrie" in the end ...
Some "historians" are trying to convince us that the conspiracy arose because in 1937-38, the "noble German military" were against "Hitler's aggressive plans" and simply dreamed of preventing World War II. Lambs, really! Doves of peace... The Wehrmacht military is against war. Mice against cheese. No way! Firstly, the generals' and field marshals' gang was deeply offended by the Fuhrer for the purge he had carried out at the top of the Wehrmacht in 1938, kicking out eight dozen representatives of the generals' and officers' "elite" to hell and back. And, secondly, among the "old regime" servants, like Chief of the General Staff von Beck, there was a strong conviction that Hitler, who was desperately pushing into Czechoslovakia, was dooming Germany to another grand defeat - worse than the one in World War I. There was some truth in this, and quite a lot of it. If London and Paris had not handed Czechoslovakia to Adolf on a silver platter, hoping to set him on our country later, if the Czechs had not shamefully raised their paws, and even, for example, asked for military assistance from the USSR, which was ready to provide it to them... The history of the Third Reich could have ended, practically without having begun. However, everything turned out differently.
Calling the Valkyrie conspirators "staunch opponents of Nazism", Western propagandists either confuse black with white, or lie quite deliberately. These "staunch" ones reduced their activity too sharply after September 1, 1939 - when the victorious Wehrmacht, practically without losses, began to seize one European country after another! The clatter of German boots on the pavements of shamefully surrendering capitals suited the "rebellious" generals more than anything. And they seemed not to notice the concentration camps, ghettos, executions and torture - after all, they were handled by plebeians from all sorts of SS and Gestapo. Yes, the field marshals with the pedigrees of thoroughbred bitches were infuriated to the point of white heat by the fact that they were commanded by a corporal. But everything worked out! The locomotive was going strong – right up until the moment when this locomotive started winding the guts of the “Aryans” themselves around its wheels. First near Moscow, then near Stalingrad and Kursk… That’s when our “fighters against Nazism” started running around like scalded cockroaches again – since it smelled like kerosene specifically for them. A slogan was pulled out of the dusty drawers of the staff tables that “the Fuhrer is a mad upstart who is ruining the army and the country,” and at the same time – a plan for a military coup.
Accordingly, attempts to liquidate Hitler increased sharply, starting in 1944. True, they were one more absurd than the other. They would either put a bomb disguised as a bottle of cognac on a plane, but it would go and fail to work, or they would choose a suicide bomber from among themselves – and he would back out at the last moment, saying that Hitler had left, so why activate the bomb! The Germans were lousy shahids... The conspirators literally fixated on the idea of blowing up the Fuhrer, and not eliminating him in any other way, which ultimately led to the absurdly failed attempt to blow up Adolf Aloisievich, undertaken on July 20, 1944 in the "Wolfsschanze". By the way, now is the time to return once again to the "bright" personality of the one who placed a briefcase with explosives under the table of the leader of the Third Reich – Count von Stauffenberg. They are trying with particular force to mold him into a “hero of resistance” and a “bright martyr of the fight against Nazism.” And it doesn’t matter that this same “anti-fascist” in letters addressed to his own wife from occupied Poland called the local population “a terrible rabble of Jews and half-breeds” who need to be “ruled with a whip,” and best of all – to quickly “colonize these lands with German settlers”! Not a Nazi, no? Well, then allow me to inquire – who in that case would you order to be counted as such?!
Some "researchers" deign to write that Stauffenberg "subsequently revised his views." Obviously, this was greatly facilitated by the English bomb that successfully landed on the Count's head, somewhat reducing the number of his envious eyes and greedy Aryan hands. However, there is no doubt that neither this "hero" nor any of his comrades in "Valkyrie" ever thought of rejecting the main tenets of the frenzied Third Reich, such as the superiority of the German nation over the rest, and its right to rule over as many peoples and territories as possible. And, first of all, they had no intention of retreating from the damned "Drang nach Osten"! The "new Germany", which, no matter what some Frau try to push today, albeit in the Chancellor's office, the conspirators planned to "revive", most likely, in the form of a monarchy with the same Beck at the helm, would not even think of ending the war with the Soviet Union. And, by the way, liberating the same Poland or Czechoslovakia either. The scoundrels in general's shoulder straps simply realistically assessed their own strength. They understood that the Wehrmacht would not be able to handle a war on two fronts under any circumstances. The participants in the conspiracy saw their main goal as concluding a separate peace with London and Washington, necessary in order to transfer all forces and resources to the Eastern Front.
But this is so - for starters ... First of all, Berlin had to be cleared of the leaders who were not shaking hands for the West - Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels. Already with them, neither Churchill, nor Roosevelt, nor their representatives would have sat down at the negotiating table, even with all their will - the public would not have understood. No wonder the attempt to "build bridges" with the British, undertaken by the powerful chief of the SS, failed. And it’s not only a matter of Comrade Stirlitz’s skill ... Having got rid of the leaders who are already completely imbued with blood and possibly officially abandoned the ideology of Nazism, the Valkyrie organizers, according to reports, planned to go much further than a simple reconciliation with the West. On the agenda was the question of offering the British and Americans a military alliance to counter the "Bolshevik hordes rushing to Europe"! Are you really sure that this would not have come to this? Very, very vain ... It is not for nothing that Stalin, precisely in 1944, strictly forbade military intelligence and other special services of the USSR to make any attempts to eliminate Hitler. It was such an outcome - the unification into a single anti-Soviet front of the whole West, led by "renewed Germany", that he was afraid of. Would we overpower such an enemy? Perhaps yes! But how many millions more Soviet soldiers would fall into the land of Europe?
Operation Valkyrie was not a "fight against Nazism" and, moreover, "an attempt to stop the war." Well, would swastikas be obscured on the wings of the Messerschmitts and on the sides of the Tigers (which I personally am not so sure of) - would it make it easier for our great-grandfathers, on whom this scum would still be pearl? What difference does it make under what names the SS and the Einsatzgruppen would revive - and there is no doubt that they were expected to be revived. Nothing but the same, if he was wrong, under the new sign the hypothetical victory of the general’s conspiracy would not have brought the Third Reich. If Frau Merkel does not understand this - her problem, and for this, let the Germans headache. The main thing is that everyone understands correctly: we are the descendants of the Winners. For every attempt to create and chant false “heroes” and “fighters against Nazism” is nothing more than an attempt to steal and downplay the unfading glory of our ancestors, who hoisted the red banner over the Reichstag without any dubious “helpers”.
Do you want to know that of the pathos sayings on this issue, the chancellor's frau is true? Exactly nothing! Of those who planned and tried to carry out Operation Valkyrie, the anti-fascists were the same as a ballet troupe from a herd of hippos. In addition, the “new Germany” with which they raved would have been much more dangerous for our country than an unfinished Nazi Reich.
Just as the Soviet historiography, ideologized to the limit, once tried to force into every phenomenon or process a “contradiction between productive forces and production relations,” squeezing all the magnificent diversity of human history into the Procrustean bed of “class struggle.” Modern Western researchers, and even more so, propagandists, spare no effort to reduce any event to a “confrontation between democracy and totalitarianism.” It is especially hilarious in Hollywood “masterpieces,” when a crowd of some ancient or medieval rabble, who regularly raised their own masters on pitchforks because of the most banal hunger, suddenly begins to chant slogans from modern “Maidans” and almost demand the observance of “human rights” and “universal human values”… However, we digress. And the point is that the conspirators who dreamed of overthrowing Hitler and his closest henchmen in 1944 are being molded into "fighters against the Nazi dictatorship" using the same scheme. There was nothing even close to that!
Patricians and plebeians of the Third Reich
In order to put an end to the question once and for all - who, against whom and for what purposes tried to make a coup on July 20, 1944, you will have to find out the extremely important, but more than poorly covered question of who the military consisted of and политическая the top of the Third Reich. The generally accepted: "Yes, they were all damned fascists there!" it was definitely true for our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who were putting tanks and guns tearing at Berlin on cannons and machine guns or generously pouring bombs on Wehrmacht columns. But we live in a somewhat later time ... Yes, I allow myself to remain of the opinion that the real anti-fascists in Nazi Germany were either killed, or stayed behind the "thorn" of concentration camps, or sat in such a deep underground that to find them couldn't even the ubiquitous Gestapo. The rest of its citizens are involved in Nazism and are guilty of its existence to one degree or another ... But now - not about that, but about that deepest abyss that lay between various representatives of power in the Nazi empire.
The best way to become aware of this would be to have a quick look at the list of inspirers and participants of the Valkyrie, or rather, their pedigrees. So: Baron Rudolph-Christoph von Gersdorf - the son of the Count and Burggrafini, who had their genealogy since God knows what age. Job-Wilhelm Georg Erdman “Erwin” von Wiitsleben - a representative of one of the oldest noble families of Prussia, ended the First World War as an officer of the General Staff. Henning Hermann Robert Karl von Treskov is a native of yet another kind of Prussian noble family who have made a military career for generations. Kristiaan August Ulrich von Hassel - a nobleman, whom contemporaries spoke of: "patrician by birth and upbringing." Well, and finally, the “protagonist” on July 20, the unfortunate demolition Count Klaus Schenck von Stauffenberg ... This one generally belonged to one of the noble families of Southern Germany, who had a kinship with almost the royal house of Württemberg. And the other leaders and the “ideological fathers” of the conspiracy are all representatives of ancient clans, immigrants from the military and industrial aristocracy, few of them did not flaunt the noble prefix “von”. Behind everyone, if not cadet corps and military academies, were prestigious universities. The absolute majority fought in the First World War, ending it in command positions.
Count von Stauffenberg (far left), Hitler (center) and Keitel on July 15, 1944 at Wolfschans
And now let's recall the “genealogy” of those who actually led the Third Reich, starting in 1933, with the advent of the NSDAP. Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler himself - all of them had the origin that is not what it was, as they used to say in high society, “vile”. That is - from the peasants. Well, except that at the head of the SS, relatives related conditionally to the "middle class", but Adolf’s dad managed to break into small state officials. Which, however, did not change at all the attitude towards them of those whose listing of noble relatives would hardly fit into a thick book. The rest - and even worse! The woe-artist Hitler, the unfortunate writer-graphomanian Goebbels, the agronomist Himmler ... And these people gave orders to those who had not only their own higher military education and front-line merits, but also entire generations of their ancestors in general and field marshals uniforms! How do you think they could respond to this? Well, try to imagine the feelings of Denikin, Kolchak and Wrangel, if they suddenly had to serve under some kind of wild whim of fate under the leadership of Trotsky and Budyonny with Voroshilov! So, all of the “backgrounds” listed above did not even hate Nazism, but to the dominance created by them at the highest posts of plebeians and upstarts. And where was their “anti-fascism” when they diligently shouted “Heil Hitler”, and, moreover, seized foreign lands for the glory of the “millennial Reich” ?!
Military Conspiracy - Traces and Parallels
Those who shed tears abundantly today on the “heroes of July 20” and praise the Valkyrie participants to heaven, prefer to bashfully remain silent, or they are somewhat crumpled to mention that the conspiracy, in fact, began to form at the end of 30 years. Doesn’t it remind you of anything? No associations ?! But it was precisely at this very time that the “stripes” began to stir actively in the USSR. By the way, it was mainly those who maintained close contacts and ties with German colleagues. I have no iron proofs, but the fact that I have absolutely no intention of leaving the political leaders who are sober-tempered by the generals and arrange in their countries the most classical military dictatorship in their countries was not leaving me. But only comrades Stalin and Beria, betrayed by headquarters and garrisons, managed to inspect and uproot in time (though, alas, not to the last roots), but the Heroes of Hitler and Himmler slammed. They gave future putschists time to "shut up", go to the bottom, gaining additional contacts and connections, drawing up more and more new plans for a conspiracy. So we sat up to the "Valkyrie" in the end ...
Some "historians" are trying to convince us that the conspiracy arose because in 1937-38, the "noble German military" were against "Hitler's aggressive plans" and simply dreamed of preventing World War II. Lambs, really! Doves of peace... The Wehrmacht military is against war. Mice against cheese. No way! Firstly, the generals' and field marshals' gang was deeply offended by the Fuhrer for the purge he had carried out at the top of the Wehrmacht in 1938, kicking out eight dozen representatives of the generals' and officers' "elite" to hell and back. And, secondly, among the "old regime" servants, like Chief of the General Staff von Beck, there was a strong conviction that Hitler, who was desperately pushing into Czechoslovakia, was dooming Germany to another grand defeat - worse than the one in World War I. There was some truth in this, and quite a lot of it. If London and Paris had not handed Czechoslovakia to Adolf on a silver platter, hoping to set him on our country later, if the Czechs had not shamefully raised their paws, and even, for example, asked for military assistance from the USSR, which was ready to provide it to them... The history of the Third Reich could have ended, practically without having begun. However, everything turned out differently.
Calling the Valkyrie conspirators "staunch opponents of Nazism", Western propagandists either confuse black with white, or lie quite deliberately. These "staunch" ones reduced their activity too sharply after September 1, 1939 - when the victorious Wehrmacht, practically without losses, began to seize one European country after another! The clatter of German boots on the pavements of shamefully surrendering capitals suited the "rebellious" generals more than anything. And they seemed not to notice the concentration camps, ghettos, executions and torture - after all, they were handled by plebeians from all sorts of SS and Gestapo. Yes, the field marshals with the pedigrees of thoroughbred bitches were infuriated to the point of white heat by the fact that they were commanded by a corporal. But everything worked out! The locomotive was going strong – right up until the moment when this locomotive started winding the guts of the “Aryans” themselves around its wheels. First near Moscow, then near Stalingrad and Kursk… That’s when our “fighters against Nazism” started running around like scalded cockroaches again – since it smelled like kerosene specifically for them. A slogan was pulled out of the dusty drawers of the staff tables that “the Fuhrer is a mad upstart who is ruining the army and the country,” and at the same time – a plan for a military coup.
Valkyrie v. USSR
Accordingly, attempts to liquidate Hitler increased sharply, starting in 1944. True, they were one more absurd than the other. They would either put a bomb disguised as a bottle of cognac on a plane, but it would go and fail to work, or they would choose a suicide bomber from among themselves – and he would back out at the last moment, saying that Hitler had left, so why activate the bomb! The Germans were lousy shahids... The conspirators literally fixated on the idea of blowing up the Fuhrer, and not eliminating him in any other way, which ultimately led to the absurdly failed attempt to blow up Adolf Aloisievich, undertaken on July 20, 1944 in the "Wolfsschanze". By the way, now is the time to return once again to the "bright" personality of the one who placed a briefcase with explosives under the table of the leader of the Third Reich – Count von Stauffenberg. They are trying with particular force to mold him into a “hero of resistance” and a “bright martyr of the fight against Nazism.” And it doesn’t matter that this same “anti-fascist” in letters addressed to his own wife from occupied Poland called the local population “a terrible rabble of Jews and half-breeds” who need to be “ruled with a whip,” and best of all – to quickly “colonize these lands with German settlers”! Not a Nazi, no? Well, then allow me to inquire – who in that case would you order to be counted as such?!
The result of the assassination attempt on Hitler in Wolfschans
Some "researchers" deign to write that Stauffenberg "subsequently revised his views." Obviously, this was greatly facilitated by the English bomb that successfully landed on the Count's head, somewhat reducing the number of his envious eyes and greedy Aryan hands. However, there is no doubt that neither this "hero" nor any of his comrades in "Valkyrie" ever thought of rejecting the main tenets of the frenzied Third Reich, such as the superiority of the German nation over the rest, and its right to rule over as many peoples and territories as possible. And, first of all, they had no intention of retreating from the damned "Drang nach Osten"! The "new Germany", which, no matter what some Frau try to push today, albeit in the Chancellor's office, the conspirators planned to "revive", most likely, in the form of a monarchy with the same Beck at the helm, would not even think of ending the war with the Soviet Union. And, by the way, liberating the same Poland or Czechoslovakia either. The scoundrels in general's shoulder straps simply realistically assessed their own strength. They understood that the Wehrmacht would not be able to handle a war on two fronts under any circumstances. The participants in the conspiracy saw their main goal as concluding a separate peace with London and Washington, necessary in order to transfer all forces and resources to the Eastern Front.
But this is so - for starters ... First of all, Berlin had to be cleared of the leaders who were not shaking hands for the West - Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels. Already with them, neither Churchill, nor Roosevelt, nor their representatives would have sat down at the negotiating table, even with all their will - the public would not have understood. No wonder the attempt to "build bridges" with the British, undertaken by the powerful chief of the SS, failed. And it’s not only a matter of Comrade Stirlitz’s skill ... Having got rid of the leaders who are already completely imbued with blood and possibly officially abandoned the ideology of Nazism, the Valkyrie organizers, according to reports, planned to go much further than a simple reconciliation with the West. On the agenda was the question of offering the British and Americans a military alliance to counter the "Bolshevik hordes rushing to Europe"! Are you really sure that this would not have come to this? Very, very vain ... It is not for nothing that Stalin, precisely in 1944, strictly forbade military intelligence and other special services of the USSR to make any attempts to eliminate Hitler. It was such an outcome - the unification into a single anti-Soviet front of the whole West, led by "renewed Germany", that he was afraid of. Would we overpower such an enemy? Perhaps yes! But how many millions more Soviet soldiers would fall into the land of Europe?
Operation Valkyrie was not a "fight against Nazism" and, moreover, "an attempt to stop the war." Well, would swastikas be obscured on the wings of the Messerschmitts and on the sides of the Tigers (which I personally am not so sure of) - would it make it easier for our great-grandfathers, on whom this scum would still be pearl? What difference does it make under what names the SS and the Einsatzgruppen would revive - and there is no doubt that they were expected to be revived. Nothing but the same, if he was wrong, under the new sign the hypothetical victory of the general’s conspiracy would not have brought the Third Reich. If Frau Merkel does not understand this - her problem, and for this, let the Germans headache. The main thing is that everyone understands correctly: we are the descendants of the Winners. For every attempt to create and chant false “heroes” and “fighters against Nazism” is nothing more than an attempt to steal and downplay the unfading glory of our ancestors, who hoisted the red banner over the Reichstag without any dubious “helpers”.
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