A question has been percolating through m mind recently, what would Germany look like without Hitler?
So assume that Hitler dies in the first was of the 1918 flu epidemic while in Hospital for treatment for his gassing injuries. He's just another dead Gefreiter at this point, one among millions.
There are a number of fixed events that are likely to occur, over which he had no control or influence, such as the Franco Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, German hyperinflation, the Wall Street Crash, The Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, the rise of Mussolini and Stalin, the actions of the Soviets in Ukraine and the Baltic etc. I would expect these to still occur and shape the world as we know it.
There are other events, such as the rebranding and reorientation of the German Workers Party to the NDASP, the Bierhalle Putsche, that book, and the Nazi's rise to power are either solely down to Hitler or were greatly influenced by him to the extent that without him, I don't see them happening.
So how would Germany evolve without Hitler and the Nazis as we know them? How would the Weimar Republic evolve? How would, without the lust for territory of Hitler and the Nazis, the rest of Europe evolve? Do we even have a Second World War at another point in time? If so, in what shape?
So assume that Hitler dies in the first was of the 1918 flu epidemic while in Hospital for treatment for his gassing injuries. He's just another dead Gefreiter at this point, one among millions.
There are a number of fixed events that are likely to occur, over which he had no control or influence, such as the Franco Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, German hyperinflation, the Wall Street Crash, The Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, the rise of Mussolini and Stalin, the actions of the Soviets in Ukraine and the Baltic etc. I would expect these to still occur and shape the world as we know it.
There are other events, such as the rebranding and reorientation of the German Workers Party to the NDASP, the Bierhalle Putsche, that book, and the Nazi's rise to power are either solely down to Hitler or were greatly influenced by him to the extent that without him, I don't see them happening.
So how would Germany evolve without Hitler and the Nazis as we know them? How would the Weimar Republic evolve? How would, without the lust for territory of Hitler and the Nazis, the rest of Europe evolve? Do we even have a Second World War at another point in time? If so, in what shape?