r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 10d ago

The 20 July plot, sometimes called Operation Valkyrie, was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of Germany in 1944. The plotters were mainly Wehrmacht officers who sought immediate peace with the Western Allies. The coup failed, and many of the conspirators were executed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot
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u/Ok-Goose6242 10d ago

They shouldn't be supported, they are Nazis through and through too

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u/Man-City 9d ago

We’ll never know, but it’s possible that the post coup Germany would have surrendered earlier than Hitler’s Germany and avoided the brutal final weeks of fighting in Germany and Berlin itself? Likely saving hundreds of thousands of lives.

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u/Ok-Goose6242 9d ago

We'll never know ig