There is no way that Germany after the Angriff and the wars, not to mention nearly forty years of Nazism, is not an economic disaster zone. The Soviet Union of the OTL 1970s would look like a consumerist paradise in comparison.
 
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There is no way that Germany after the Angriff and the wars, not to mention nearly forty years of Nazism, is not an economic disaster zone. The Soviet Union of the OTL 1970s would pronably look like a consumerist paradise in comparison.
I think we are about to see "Death of Russia : DAS DEUTSCHE BOOGALOO" at some time. And this is without counting any oil crisis in a world that devoured more oil than ours with few environmental and efficiency worries (wars)
 
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There is no way that Germany after the Angriff and the wars, not to mention nearly forty years of Nazism, is not an economic disaster zone. The Soviet Union of the OTL 1970s would look like a consumerist paradise in comparison.
The problem with that is that the Soviets had significantly more problems both structural and recent to worry about. For starters the nation had to deal with the deaths from the Russian Civil War and famines. Then it had to deal with Stalin and his purges , his mass industrialization, the Holodomer, further famine, the death of the kulaks, mass corruption, and so much more. Then it had to deal with WW2 and the mass death if its population and an attempted genocide, further famine, and mass rebuilding. It then had to deal with further corruption, stagnation, mass military spending, and adventurism. Finally it had to deal with further corruption and eventual desolation of the Societ Union as the system could no longer support itself.

Really while Germany might be in an economic disaster they have a significantly easier time to recover from the damage, especially since the most affected were the Slavs, and while the German population suffered they still have more of an intact population and family structure than say the Soviets, the PRC, and most communist countries. It will be difficult but compared to the damage the Chinese had to rebuild from, this will be a cakewalk.

That and Germany of OTL and how it managed to recover from WW2, along with the rest of Europe for that matter.
 
I think we are about to see "Death of Russia : DAS DEUTSCHE BOOGALOO" at some time. And this is without counting any oil crisis in a world that devoured more oil than ours with few environmental and efficiency worries (wars)
Unlikely considering the point where such a thing could have happened already passed and showed everyone how badly such a thing would be like. Considering the Russian Horde is waiting for them, most people know that showing such division would lead to the death of them. That and if I am honest the Death of Russia is not exactly the most realistic scenario and had vastly different circumstances, when compared to the Reich of this TL.
 
If Hess had been succeeded by someone more competent like Speer, Wegener, or even Heydrich. Would Germany have “won” the Cold War or become the sole superpower once the US collapses?
Doubtful. A more 'competent' Furher might have been less insane, but Speer's nominal competence is very relative. He (or Wegener or Heydrich) might not have frittered things away quite as much as Goring did, but the very fact they all were even in the running speaks to their problems.
 
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