Indeed, it was a lack of courage by almost all the German generals, many of whom found Hitler deranged and repugnant but could not bring themselves to break military protocol and challenge him as he hijacked their country. These were some of the bravest men in the world, men who had faced fire and death many times, yet in conference meetings they fearfully fretted and hoped someone else would do something. Waiting, hoping, cowering, they were complicit in heinous crimes. We’ll never fully understand their wrassling, but inaction sealed their fate.
