His chief fellow conspirators were once again Göring and Himmler. Göring had ambitions to take over from von Blomberg as War Minister; Himmler deployed the SD and SS, as in all previous ‘solutions’, as respectively the general staff and the unconditionally loyal guard of the Führer. Heydrich was once again in charge of the detailed planning, of both the external strike against Austria and the internal strike against the Army leadership. He appears to have been aided by extraordinary luck. Both von Blomberg and von Fritsch seem to have delivered themselves without resistance into his hands. But
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