do you think that the July 20th plot was a conspiracy?

Question

i read something about the July 20th plot (how several main figures in the nazi regime tried to blow up Hitler) was a cover-up from Himmler because they wanted to get rid of him so he could 1. become fuhrer of Germany and 2. because hitler was messing everything up. the article backed up its theory by saying in a good conspiracy that all the loose ends were cut when they killed Rommel and Henning von Tresckow

Answer 1

The July 20th plot was meant as a good attempt - though not well planned out. In his memoirs published in 1951 (best seller in 1952) Heinz Guderian states that "If the assassination was intended seriously to affect Germany's governmental machine, then the most important officials of the National-Socialist regime should also have been eliminated. But not one of these was present when the bomb exploded. No plans had been made for the removal of Himmler, Goering, Goebbels, or Borman, to name only the most important. The conspirators made no attempt to ensure that they would be able to carry out their political plans in the event of the assassination succeeding." The one most important point as to be the disclaimer to what you have recently read then follows suit. "The man who actually did it, Graf Stauffenberg, was indeed well aware of this, as is proved by the fact that he did not carry out his intentions some days earlier on the Obersalzberg, giving his reason the ABSENCE of Himmler and Goering whom he had expected to be present in the room."

Heinz Guderian was one of maybe three Generals who actually stood up to Hitler and lived. He (Guderian) was also released from Nuremburg in 1948 and set free (he would die in 1954 of Congestive Heart Failure). The interesting thing (among many) that I find about Gen. Guderian is that every interrogation that he was under in the Nuremburg time frame concluded with almost identical conclusions "He was and is a professional soldier - nothing more". One of the many examples can be seen in his outright refusal to pass down to his troops Hitler's Order "Directive #21" (aka Commissar's Order) on the eve of Operation Barbarossa.

The answer to your question "Was it a conspiracy", that answer is a partial "yes" and partial "no", but the players on this list within your question are incorrect, so too the thought that Himmler would take over. Gen. Guderian states "That neither the internal nor external political situation was conducive to a successful coup d'etat. At the time mind you, the German people still believed in Adolf Hitler and that with his death the assassin would of removed the only man who might still have been able to bring the war to a favourable conclusion."

Colonel-General Beck was to be appointed as "Head of State" had the assassination plan been successful.

Good question, the author of this document needs further material to support his claim other than what you stated here.

Gerry :)

Answer 2

you have a good record above. One i will think of of is the loss of existence of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed in the infamous automobile crash on thirty first August 1997 in Paris. Mohammed al-Fayed believes that the employer needed them the two killed.