re: #271 Dr Lizardo

Not just that, but the July 20th plotters also had some fairly unrealistic demands, such as being able to hang on to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and confirmation of other seizures of territory throughout Eastern Europe.

Indeed. They probably would have also demanded political recognition of the government installed by the planned coup, something that Churchill and Roosevelt would have had a hard time agreeing to in light of Stalin’s inevitable refusal. And with that recognition would come demands on whether the plotters would be tried for war crimes, where the trials would take place, etc.

I rather think that had the plot gone off as planned, the more likely outcome would have been a short-lived civil war that only hastened the collapse of the Reich.