Operation Valkyrie Succesful

June 6th, 1944: D-Day; Allies land at Normandy and gain beachhead by the end of the day. The military resistance in the German Army views Hitler's lack of action with horror, and begin to speed up their plans to assasinate him and most of his inner circle.

June 30th, 1944: Allies have made little progress against German occupation forces in hedgerow country. 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. plans are drawn up in minute detail to kill Hitler with a pair of British bombs in one week. The plan is code-named Operation Valkyrie, an already existing plan to assemble the reserve army in the event of a civil or slave labor uprising. It is quickly modified to replace the slave laborers with the Nazi SS, in the event that they should stage a coup.

July 1st, 11:00 pm1944: Allies still stuck making advances of a few meters a day. Stauffenburg drives to Hitler's residence, the Berghof, with General Freidrech Fromm of the Reserve Army (although not a member of the resistance a proponent for reform in the army) and a contingent of Army officers loyal to the resistance as his"assistants" to ensure the safety of the Generals.

Two hours after arriving, Stauffenburg gets up to take a phone call. He calls his assitants and General Fromm out as well, before leading them all out of the house and into an awaiting car. suddenly there is a large explosion and an entire corner of the house is blown apart. in the chaos that followed, the General and the other resistance members simply tell the SS guards that they have orders from the Furher and are let through. They drive to an airport and are flown to Berlin.

two minutes after they leave SS guards recover the charred remains of Josef Goebels, General Alfred Jodl, and Adolf Hitler. But the body of Heinrech Himmler is not found. a few minutes later he is found twenty feet away from the house, blown out of the window. despite many broken bones, he is still alive.

July 2nd, 1944 1:00 am: AFter recieving a call from General von Stauffenburg, General Oblrecht assumes command of the reserve Army from the abscent General Fromm and initiates Operation Valkyrie.

1:40 am: The Reserve Army is woken from their sleep and begins moving on SS and Gestapo barracks all over Berlin. a message is sent out to all army units in Europe that the Furhrer was dead and that the SS was attempting to sieze power. at first there was chaos in the German army, but as orders were sent out the outnumbered Waffen SS begin to surrender in droves.

2:00am: General von Stauffenburg sends confirmation that Hitler was dead after getting word from a very confused Herman Goering, who's quickly arrested as a member of the coup.

3:00 am: the Russians launch an offensive with almost 200 divisions aimed to drive the Germans out of Russia altogether. With the Normandy landings and the coup in full effect this offensive is hoped to catch the Germans when they're most vulnerable.

3:30 am: roundups of Nazi, SS and Gestapo officials begin all over Germany and in occupied cities in western Europe.

11:00 pm: Operation Valkyrie appears to have succeded in its first goals to destroy the Nazi regime with the roundup of over 3,000 SS and Nazi officials. Exactly 24 hours after beginning the coup, the resistance members begin organizing the new government.

July 3rd, 1944: Dr. Goerdler is made the new Chancellor in Germany and begins to prepare his first adress to the German people, now not knowing who to trust. General Beck is made the new president, and General Olbrecht is appointed the new supreme commander of the Wermacht.

July 4th, 1944: The Allies begin to break out of the Normandy beachhead and General Patton starts an armored drive to Brittany.

As the new Chancellor, Goerdelor adresses the people of Germany and says to them "The radicals around Heinrech Himmler grew too radical even for the Furher himself. Now we must persevere as a nation.  Himmler is an enemy of us all, and he would see us destroyed not for the nation, but for the radical creed of his fanatics.  As the Furher's successors, we now do not adress you as what part of the party you are; whether you are a part of the army or in a factory working for the good of the nation, or a mother ensuring our future, we ask you as citizens, and individuals to consider the greater good of your country and to stand behind us to ensure Germany's future.  The Furher is now dead, and that cannot be helped.  But honor his memory and all the good he has done for our country.  If Germany lives to the fullest of the Furher's dream, your children will say that this was your finest hour. Unite! Unite for Germany, against Himmler, against our enemies. Long live the Fatherland."

In this speech the Germans heard more appeals for endurance and felt more a sense of mourning for the Furher, even though this "eulogy" as some put it was given by a man who secretly had hated Hitler and all that he stood for. But there was no need to tell the German people that just yet.

Word of the new government has reached the ears of the Allied forces. FDR wants to make peace with a new regime, but Winston Churchill says that the demand for unconditional surrender applies not to Hitler but to the German nation. And Stalin does not even respond with anything but,"One less German to shoot." With Patton advancing every hour, a decision must be made quickly.

July 5th, 1944: an official appeal for a ceasefire to discuss a new peace was sent to London, Rome, Washington, and Moscow. while no response was given, the Goerdler government is optimistic.

July 6th, 1944: The concentration camps are shut down and the inmates there are given temporary shelter by Wermacht troops. films were made of the skeleton-like prisoners to be used as propoganda against the SS and HImmler, still missing.

Montgomery begins to strike south towards Argenton, threatening the Germans with yet another mass surrender.

July 7th, 1944: Himmler and a group of SS officers attack and occupy a radio station and began broadcasting to the Germans that the Goerdelor government was the cause of the coup, that they were defeatists and that they had killed Hitler. He challenges all loyal National Socialists to take up arms against the new government to restore Hitler's party to power.

Stauffenburg responds suddenly on the radio and tells the German people in his first public adress that Himmler said nothing of the greater good of Germany, and that all true patriots should place loyalty to their country above allegiance to the remains of the Nazi Party.

The average German begins to remember the times of the anarchy before Hitler's rise to power and don't know who to trust.

July 8th, 1944: Stauffenburg is demoted for his actions the previous day. He was never supposed to adress 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.