Re: France as the Agressor
If Daladier and Chamberlain had stood their ground at Munich and resisted Hitler to point of making him using force against Czechoslovakia, Gens Beck, Blaskowitz and others were in the position and had firm plans to move against Hitler, removing him from power and installing Gen Brauchitsch as temporary head of state. Also was planned was the arrest of several key NSDAP and SS types.
When Czechoslovakia was sold out, it knock any hope the plan to succeed, as Hitler now looked like the savior to the German people and there were grave doubts that the Army would follow the plotters. As time proceeded afterward, several of the key plotters were given new assignments that placed them in less of a position to have sufficient influence, such as the commander of Weikries I, whose name I cannot recall, and Beck retired, plus the apparent strength of Hitler following such successes as the remilitarizaton the Rhineland, Munich and the Anschluss, making the chances of a successful coup slim.
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JW
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