The plan assumes significance when compared with the coup that was attempted eventually on 20 July 1944, but little otherwise can be taken at face value. Hitler’s and Himmler’s method in successive coups was always to draw their opponents into the open. No one will ever know who the double agents were in this deadly dangerous game nor the twists and turns of the plot. It is not inconceivable that there were those in ‘opposition’ circles who were inciting Hitler to a forward policy in order to draw him into a false move, not inconceivable that Himmler himself was keeping his options open as it
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