re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And reading about the plot to assassinate Hitler, one has to be reminded that it might have ended the war a bit earlier, but the fellows behind it were not necessarily supporters of democracy: many of them were authoritarians or even monarchists.

Had they succeeded, Germany would not be the successful model of democracy and peaceful society that it is now.

Even the assassination of Hitler is dependent on when it happened. Earlier in his reign and the war may have been averted or ended earlier with a negotiated peace that saw a return to status quo ante bellum. Late in the war and its unlikely that the Allies (especially Stalin) would have agreed to a negotiated peace and probably would have forced the new regime to choose between fighting to the last or making it easier for the Western Allies to occupy the whole of Germany before the Soviets got there.