He couldn't do Greece right neither. And in 43, Hitler had to prop up his shrinking power base, and send in Skorzeny and co. to rescue him.
Not a brilliant dictator really. Fair enough in peacetime, yes. In war, nope.
He would have been kicked out of the Balkans and then would have been deposed in a coup for being all mouth and little action.
Mussolini never really liked Hitler. He just rode the secondary waves of early successes but never really achieved much.
Not even with seemingly endless supplies from Siberia.
Plus the OKW were utterly against Op Barbarossa, maybe a Soviet assault may even stir up more trouble
WI: following carving up of Poland, Stalin no longer trusts Hitler and launches preemptive strike (Under Rokovossky, don't know if spelt right...)
Taking into account Soviet military purges but their superiority in numbers, discuss....
As well he high horseness such as Reich Minister for Forestry as well as his art plundering. Yet he was still the successor, until the telegram of April 45 that is...
True, Goering boasts about supplying the 6th Army after Stalingrad and being unable to destroy the RAF meant he quickly lost sway with the Nazi elite cadre
What if Hitler was appointed as Reichskanzler before Jan 33. As seen, the Bruning, Papen and Schleicher cabinets couldn't command majorities.
Would Hindenburg be sidlined?
So for POD. For argument's sake, London is occupied, Churchill flees, at what point does he sue for peace and under what conditions does Hitler demand?