re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I also wonder what Germany would look like if the attempt to assassinate him in July of 1944 had succeeded. The people who planned to seize power were not democrats in any sort, they would have wanted to institute an authoritarian state more like Franco’s Spain than the current Federal Republic of Germany.

The July 20th coup plotters wanted to make a separate peace with Britain, France and the US while continuing the war against the USSR. Some of them actually wanted to try to talk the UK, the US and France into joining them in some kind of anti-Bolshevik crusade.

They weren’t exactly the most realistic thinkers.