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Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed? (www.historyextra.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Absolutely not. About half the German casualties of the war occurred after that event. And most of the bombing too. An unfathomable amount of suffering could have been prevented, if the assassination had been successful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler because he thought Hitler wasn't effective. The war would have absolutely continued.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wrong. Stauffenberg certainly wasn't a model democrat. But he understood that the way was lost and that they had to come to some sort of resolution. Any deal Germany could have gotten would have been harsh but far better than total destruction.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

not a model democrat

is doing some real heavy lifting there lol