jul 20, 1944 - Operation
Valkyrie
Description:
-most famous plot to assassinate Hitler (6 in 1943)
-plot by military leaders (many involved, military-conservative resistance): Beck-Goerdeler group, Kreisau Circle, contact with USA + Britain
-reasons: necessity to remove Hitler --> rapid peace + avoid invasion by Red Army (not about morality of Nazi regime), & moral rehabilitation
-USA + Britain suspicious (e.g. plan for post-Hitler German state also seemed authoritarian)
-consequences (failure): suicide/execution, Gestapo round-ups of military-conservative resistance, family members also punished (idea of "collective guilt")
Added to timeline:
IB History: Nazi Germany + Weimar Republic
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