"It had been planned to occupy by military force the Reich Chancellery and those government offices, particularly misistries, which were...close supporters of Hitler, with the express intent of...trying the group before the whole German nation...On the day Witzleben came to see me [Sept. 28]...He requested that I give him the order of execution...During this discussion, the news came that the British Prime Minister and the French Premier had agreed to come to Hitler for further talkes...I therefore took back the order of execution because, owing to this fact, the entire basis for the action had been taken away...
"We were firmly convinced that we would be successful. But now came Mr. Chamberlain...", Gen. Franz Halder the leading plotter of the coup d'etat against Hitler in September, 1938, in his Nuremberg interrogation.
"In the autumn of 1938 it was still possible to count on bringing Hitler to trial...preparations [had been made] for a coup d'etat in good time and...had brought them to within an ace of success...The intervention of foreign statesmen was something I could not possibly have taken into account."--fellow plotter Dr. Hjalmar H.G. Schact, at Nuremberg.
"The impossible had happened. Chamberlain and Daladier were flying to Munich. Our revolt was done for...Chamberlain saved Hitler".--Hans Bernd Gisevius, also a plotter, at Nuremberg. Shirer, The Rise and Fall (411-12)
