ABSTRACT
Timing was of the utmost importance for the success of the Coup d''etat. The plotters realized that, in order to make the accusation about Adolf Hitler's war plans valid, they would have to wait for the short period of time between the issuing of the order to attack Czechoslovakia and the beginning of the troop movements, and then move with lightning speed. Even the vacillating Brauchitsch was now willing to support the coup d'état. In the fall of 1939 the climate for Hitler's overthrow was even less favorable than it had been a year before, but Hitler's determined opponents were still considering plans for a coup d'etat, and continued to do so even after the outbreak of hostilities. Early in April, 1940, the resistance managed to get the Vatican to mediate a peace proposal between England and France and a German government resulting from a coup.
