10:00 pm: Prague is secured, and 15 SS officials are shot while resisting arrest.
July 17th, 1944: Panzers captured by the Wehrmacht from the 10th SS Panzer Division take Corenton, but Allied forces soon move into the city and a "New Stalingrad" as some say begins. 3:30 am: Roundups of Nazi, SS and Gestapo officials begin all over Germany and in occupied cities in western Europe. July 12th, 1944: The revolt in Nuremburg is still taking place; some 400 soldiers and civilians have died.
Plans are drawn up in minute detail to kill Hitler with a pair of British bombs in one week. In a desperate attempt to cover his involvement, he ordered the executions of General II. While the failure of this attempt was a blow to all who opposed Hitler’s reign, it did symbolize the weakening of the German government and the start of the Allied victory. Meanwhile, the Wehrmacht and the SS continue to fight, with the SS, drained of manpower, beginning to get the worst of the fight, losing one hundred men in Krakow alone. Olbricht added a second part, 'Valkyrie II', which provided for the swift mustering of units into battle groups ready for action. This is seen as a sign of separation of the SS from the rest of Germany, and is to be used for propaganda against the SS.
But the body of Heinrich Himmler is not found.
A secret memorandum is sent to General Rommel, who hasn't read it yet. The General is surprised, but accepts.
It begins at one minute past midnight, with the bombing of bridges and harbors with rockets. 2:00am: General von Stauffenburg sends confirmation that Hitler was dead after getting word from a very confused Herman Göring, who's quickly arrested as a member of the "coup". Word of the new government has reached the ears of the Allied forces. The 15th Army is ready to cross the Dieres and attack the British beachhead in the east.
July 14th, 1944: The SS make a large attack on the Wehrmacht troops in Poland, where the SS has had control for years. 6: 00 am: Stauffenburg leads a company of reserve army troops and begins an assault on the SS Amtsgruppe A of the SS, the nerve center of the SS throughout Europe.
The Luftwaffe gains control of the air over Sword Beach and the almost four divisions of the British 2nd Army suffer all day from constant bombings and strafings. the RAF manages to bomb the 15th Army enough to halt them. Several members of the German government believed that Hitler was destroying Germany and realized their only hope of not being obliterated by the Allied Powers was to remove him from power. As the new Chancellor, Goerdelor addresses the people of Germany and says to them "The radicals around Heinrech Himmler grew too radical even for the Führer himself.
Operation Valkyrie is a success, and the Nazi regime falls. July 7th, 1944: Himmler and a group of SS officers attack and occupy a radio station and begin broadcasting to the Germans that the Goerdelor government was the cause of the coup, that they were defeatists and that they had killed Hitler. The Tirpitz is sighted by Allied planes in the North Sea, and Allied Air and Naval forces begin formatting plans to stop it there. In the east, Soviet tanks have almost completely cut off Minsk and the 100,000 German troops there have begun to quickly withdraw to avoid being cut off. Given the nature of the situation on all fronts, General VonStauffenburg recommends the production and use of nerve gas. July 15th, 1944: The revolt in Nuremburg has been crushed with the use of reserve Wehrmacht troops. Resistance groups, with their leaders of General Olbrect, General Truscow, Dr. Goerdler, General Beck and General von Stauffenburg decide that the time to act is now. The original plan, designed to deal with internal disturbances in emergency situations, was developed by General The idea of using the Reserve Army in the German homeland for a potential coup existed before, but apart from Hitler himself, only Colonel-General The original Valkyrie order only dealt with strategy to ensure combat readiness of units among scattered elements of the Reserve Army. July 17th, 1944: Panzers captured by the Wehrmacht from the 10th SS Panzer Division take Corenton, but Allied forces soon move into the city and a "New Stalingrad" as some say begins. Stauffenberg and his fellow conspirators knew that the success of the plot depended on Hitler being killed by the briefcase bomb at the Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s Eastern Front military headquarters. 3:30 am: Roundups of Nazi, SS and Gestapo officials begin all over Germany and in occupied cities in western Europe.
Before entering the briefing room in the compound, Stauffenberg thus asked one of the aides to place him as close to The aide obliged Stauffenberg’s request and placed him to the right of the Führer, with only General Adolf Heusinger, Chief of the General Staff of the Army, standing between them. 4:00 am: Reinhard Heydrich and a company of Waffen SS guards and Gestapo officers barricade themselves in the Bindler Block as they are now cut off from the SS Fuhrungshauptamt, their headquarters.
He was never supposed to address the German people and is accused of causing panic and despair among the citizens of the Reich, most of whom had never heard his name until he suddenly appeared on the radio. 2,973 513 1.
With masses of T-34s beginning to move around the city, it becomes apparent to Generals Guderian and Rommel that an encirclement is imminent.
Updated on: 9 Dec 2019 by Ashish.
Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators’ plot to kill Hitler had been well-thought through and if everything had gone to plan, it should have succeeded.Unforeseen complications however, ensured the plot did not go according to plan: Brandt’s slight moving of the briefcase, Stauffenberg and Haeften’s inability to arm both bombs and the change in both the timing and especially, the location of the briefing.History Hit brings you the stories that shaped the world through live events, an award winning podcast network and our new online only history channel.
He begins to organize Remer's troops to assault the Bindler Block In my first Patreon-sponsored video, I answer whether the outcome of WWII in Europe would have changed if Hitler had been killed during Operation Valkyrie.