I did some research and readings on various assassination attempts and to highlight one is the successful one on the life of Heydrich...several attempts were made on the life of Hitler but none were successful. I wonder if anyone has any information whether the allies had any plans to end the war before 1945 by planning to kill Hitler among others.
Hello Niko001, a simple answer to your question in regards to Hitler: NO AFAIK the only attempt from the allies to assassinate a higher German rank, was only the British attempt on Rommel. Regards Kruska
Not so. Operation Foxley was planned. Whether it would have worked is another story: Operation Foxley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia BBC - History - World Wars: The Foxley Report: Secret Operations in World War Two
That is the one I was going to point out too, Foxley, there was one other but I don't even know if it had a name. A fellow contacted the British secret service with a plan to "snipe" Hitler from across the street at one of his rallies. This was pretty early on, and it was turned down as unworkable. Could have worked, but the sniper would undoubtedly have been captured and made to "confess" the attempt was sponsored by the British. To be "caught" in a political assassination conspiracy is not something any nation wishes on itself. The Operation Foxley might have been "shut down" by Winston himself, since it was becoming obvious after Stalingrad that Hitler was more "valuable alive", as his military bungling was weakening the Nazi state. I believe Churchill claimed his ineptitude was worth three divisions in saved allied lives. There is another consideration, that is the death of Hitler by outside forces has the unfortunate consequence of perhaps turning him into a martyr. Then if the German people lost the war, they could (and probably would) claim that once again they hadn't lost the military conflict but had been stabbed in the back, as before. "If only Adolf had lived, we wouldn't be in this mess now. He was our savior!"
Absolutely. The whole thing has a more recent example and that would be the decision to leave Hussein in power in Baghdad in 1991. Power vacuums suck. I haven't heard of the earlier plan to assassinate Hitler that you mention but Operation Spark illustrates it wasn't just the Allies planning on bumping him off: Operation Spark (1940) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hello alieneyes, Yes you are correct - my mistake as I had read your post into - an assassination attempt being carried out as such. Regards Kruska
