It is at this point, with the opposing pressures on Himmler increasing by the day, on the one hand to preserve the internal discipline of the Axis in face of repeated shocks, on the other hand to remove Hitler and install a government with which the west might feel able to talk, that it is legitimate to speculate on which side of the balance Heydrich would have thrown his weight and what might have been achieved. But Heydrich was dead.
