Greetings!
I would like to discuss the mystic alpine fortress. What is myth, what reality? In summer 1944 Himmler and his SS started to build this huge fortress in the austrian alps. Without the knowledge and approval of our great Führer.
Was it treason or just a brilliant plan of Himmler? He wanted to withdraw with his SS and Waffen-SS divisions to Austria and negotiate peace conditions after the unholy alliance between USA/UK and Russia would have broken. Thus he held 10.000 important prisoners (jews and stuff like that) back from the extermination camps. They would function as hostages. Simultaneously he improved the infrastructure and industrial capacity of the region with the help of countless forced labourers.
It seems to have been just a matter of weeks, that prevented Himmler from accomplishing his masterpiece.
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Questions:
1. Did Himmler betray Hitler? If so, did he have the right to do so?
2. If the Alpenfestung would have been completed, what would have happened?
- Would the war just have lasted several months longer?
- Would the alliance have been broken?
- Would Himmler have been able to negotiate an armistice?
- If so, would USA/UK eventually have sided with Himmler (similar to post-war Western Germany) against the far greater threat of the east?
- Would Himmler then have been able to restore the Reich (pre-war borders) as a bulwark against Stalin and have allied with the Western powers?
Thanks for your time!
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