As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In the study of the Assyrian German, it is perplexing in how a people so precise, so attentive to detail, so orderly, can be a people so without leadership qualities and so one dimensional.
Mind you from Nineveh to Adolf Hitler this people were most successful in having an orderly leadership hierarchy and a focus of not being deterred, but in review of the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler, from an analytical and tactical perspective, one wonders how the most brilliant military minds and political minds in Germany were so flat earth in their attempt which failed on der Feuhrer.
For years the "conspirators" were a group of military officers, in fact generals and none of them would take the responsibility to pull the trigger on the operation. They did a great deal of talking, a great deal of informing the British, but they simply were not willing to accomplish the mission.
In reading of the group, my one conclusion is that Reichsmarshall Heinrich Himmler was playing both sides of this coup, in he had to arrest people to not have the Fuehrer calling for his head, but it is possible that Heinrich Himmler who saw himself as a replacement for Adolf Hitler, was waiting around, hoping that the conspirators actually succeeded in killing der Fuehrer.
Strangely or not, the original groups, as they were picked off and remained inactive, were eventually supplanted by two leading Germans in Field Marshall Irwin Rommel and Count (Colonel) Claus von Stauffenberg. Strangely both men were almost violently killed in combat, whereas Rommel was sidelined for the coup, Stauffenberg with his one arm, one eye and shattered hand arose to the leadership as the one who undertook the mission to assassinated Adolf Hitler, due to the fact that he had the most contact and opportunity to kill Hitler, Goering and Himmler at the same time at headquarters.
Of interest in this Irwin Rommel desired Hitler arrested and tried by Germans, as he did not want Hitler to become a martyr.
Numerous attempts were made in der Fuehrer's life. Adolf Hitler though understood survival and assassination attempts, so he always changed his routines or abruptly departed an event which foiled the planned attempts.
In one attempt, the assassins who used captured English time bombs with fuses, because the German bombs made hissing sounds, had placed fake wine bottles onto the leader's plane, broken the acid vial which was to eat through a thin wire which would snap a spring trigger. The wire was eaten away, but the bomb did not go off.
Other attempts were called off as all three targets were not together.
Finally, Stauffenberg decided that time had run out, and he would kill Adolf Hitler if he was the only target which he was, as Himmler and Goering were not present. All went according to the plan, until an officer, Colonel Brandt moved the bomb from direct contact with Hitler to behind a heavy wooden plank leg of an oak table. All hell broke loose when the bomb blew up, it maimed, it killed, it blew people out windows, but Adolf Hitler save for blown ear drums, smoking hair and splinters in his back, was untouched.
The plan was then for the other conspirators to enact Valkyrie to march the troops on Berlin of the Home Guard, and send out orders to Generals on the fronts while communications were tied up at the assassination site. None of that happened. Those who were supposed to give orders, did nothing. The only General who did anything was in Paris and he arrested all the SS and SD and put them into prison.
Stauffenberg arrived and Valkyrie was initiated by hours were lost and in a short time General Fromm in order to save himself, arrested and executed four of the conspirators. Fromm fooled no one as Hitler had the General executed not long after.
In examining these events, the conspirators had no real plan other than troops taking over key areas. In reviewing this, the tactical reality is when one is supposed to kill someone, then the point is they should be dead.
This may sound obvious, but it was not to the one dimensional conspirators. Colonel Stauffenberg and his aide, Werner von Haeften, succeeded in the bomb, but the evidence reveals that von Haeften afterwards dismantled a second bomb they had, and threw it out of the car while fleeing.
The tactical assessment would be, if one bomb is good, then perhaps two bombs would be better. When the point is to kill someone, then perhaps there should be insurance.
The key to this is Werner von Haeften. He should have been the back up in this, "Where Stauffenberg has been, von Haeften should go in."
As one can not have someone who is a target dead enough, von Haeften, who had access to everything as in time bombs, certainly could have had a 500 cc vial of morphine or cyanide in a syringe and in the confusion rushed in and gave Adolf Hitler a final dose. For that matter, he could have had a dozen grenades and lobbed them in, but with Hitler's demonic luck, he probably would have survived, which would leave the best medicine of a Luger with silencer to put a clip into der Feuhrer's brain.
It seems obvious enough that there should have been measures to introduce a grenade to Heinrich Himmler and Herman Goering, as with SS guarding the compound, there is still confusion enough for some hysteria to call out, Der Anführer fordert die Reichmarshall auf!
The Leader is calling for the Reichmarshall!
Opportunity of syringes injecting things into necks of fat men and smarmy little men would present themselves.
Colonel Stauffenberg was too key in this really. An assassin should not be the one who has to escape to give orders that others are afraid to. Those orders should have been automated and not left to the feckless, but that is what was involved in this in people waiting around for direction from leadership and no one would lead.
The rudimentary principles of this were the plan, which was good enough, but it was not executed in a timely direction. There were failures in it not being encompassing enough in taking over communications and causing confusion. At source it failed in killing the target and neutralizing the second and third most powerful leadership in Germany in Georing's Luftwaffe and Himmler's SS which would have risen and caused a civil war for the Army.
The success of this mission, required leadership, the assassin and those who like robots followed orders. In this, the leadership did not contact those waiting for orders, and this failed as the assassin was the catalyst in the leadership. These three areas had to be separate and then fall like a firing pin or a detonator or dominoes as once the mission began it would not stop.
In this Stauffenberg should have brought additional aides, with von Haeften focused on the bomb to kill Hitler and the follow up to make certain, and the other aide to make the attempt on Himmler and Goering. Those would be understood as suicide missions and diversions, so that Stauffenberg and Haeften could make their escape.
As the conspirators had the direction of communications there, the simple solution was to have two lines open to generals in Berlin and Paris, and the first explosion which took place and the insurance policy would be heard by these commanders, and with that they would like robots issue orders for Valkyrie.
This would have been the logical order of operations.
agtG
