What were the eastern SS men going to do?
Open huge gaps in the front while trying to find a transport to Berlin?
Fire on the next Wehrmacht Officer they encounter?
With the transports and communications they had at that time it would have been all over before they had organized and gotten anywhere near Berlin.
And there is the small problem that starting a civil war could very well led to regional collapse of the front and everybody getting killed/captured by the Russians.
And the fact they were outnummberd everywere.
And that many Waffen SS-men were foreign volunteers with little interest in who ruled Germany .
You think trice before you do anything in that situation.
If Himmler would have staged a countercoup he would have to use the men he allready had in/near the larger cities.
Open huge gaps in the front while trying to find a transport to Berlin?
Fire on the next Wehrmacht Officer they encounter?
With the transports and communications they had at that time it would have been all over before they had organized and gotten anywhere near Berlin.
And there is the small problem that starting a civil war could very well led to regional collapse of the front and everybody getting killed/captured by the Russians.
And the fact they were outnummberd everywere.
And that many Waffen SS-men were foreign volunteers with little interest in who ruled Germany .
You think trice before you do anything in that situation.
If Himmler would have staged a countercoup he would have to use the men he allready had in/near the larger cities.