the Bürgerbräu–Venlo provocation was brilliantly successful. And in the atmosphere of fear and suspicion created deliberately by the Gestapo, it was evident to von Brauchitsch, Halder and the other senior generals who had dusted off and reworked the 1938 plans for an Army putsch that the bomb attempt against Hitler could easily be turned to use by Himmler and Heydrich as the pretext for a pre-emptive SS strike against them.
