In early 1945, a conspiracy started to grow within the highest ranks of the SS to replace Hitler as leader of Germany with SS leader Heinrich Himmler. The plot is not well known today, but involved many very senior generals dissatisfied with how the war was being run and with Hitler’s increasingly incompetent leadership. The question was: would Himmler act against Hitler before Germany lost the war?
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Sources:
– ‘Himmler’s Diary, 1945 – A Calendar of Events Leading To Suicide’ by Stephen Tyas & Peter Witte, (Fonthill: 2014)
– ‘Brief of Interrogation of Otto Ohlendorf / Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel / APO 403, U.S. Army / Interrogation Division’, Cornell University Library
– ‘Interrogation of: Gottlieb BERGER / Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality / Interrogation Division Summary’, Cornell University Library
– ‘Interrogation of Schellenberg, Walter’, Cornell University Library
– SS-1: The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler’ by Hugh Thomas, (4th Estate: 2002)
– ‘Bormann: The Man Who Manipulated Hitler’ by Jochen von Lang, (Book Club Associates: 1979)
– ‘True Himmler’ by David Irving, (Focal Point: 2020)
– ‘The Goebbels Diaries’ edited by Hugh Trevor-Roper, (Book Club Associates: 1978)
Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress; Holger.Ellgaard; Cornell University Library;
