High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Operation Valkyrie (German: Unternehmen Walküre) was an emergency continuity of government operations plan developed for the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany (Wehrmacht Heer) to execute and implement should, for whatever reason, there come to be a general breakdown in civil order of the nation; caused by the failure of the nominal civilian (Nazi) led government, to maintain control of civil affairs. The plan was approved by German leader Adolf Hitler, who intended it to be used in the event that physical disruption caused by the Allied bombing of German cities resulted in a breakdown in domestic law and order; or a rising by the millions of forced laborers from occupied countries working in German factories.