A different Fuhrer.

The philosopher (and social activist) Noam Chomsky have write recently:

"What would have happened if in 30s Hitler had been disarranged by the Third Reich and a more moderate Nazi Hierarch was to throne? Imagine if this new Fuhrer had not invaded Poland if the war had not started, if the Jews had been deported and not exterminated, and if the new Fuhrer had focused on GERMAN ECONOMIC power. How would we today if Nazism had never dressed Satan, but those of a minor demon? Do not dare to think about the consequences, probably 100 times worse than World War II. Instead, we faced Satan, Hitler, and from there at least there was democracy (though very imperfect), but certainly better than the fascisms that Hitler's most 'moderate' Third Reich probably would have sparked for a century or two.....
....With a moderate but still Nazi Fuhrer, and without the Second World War, and with the spread of German economic power, what would happen to European fascism in Spain, Austria, Greece, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Portugal or Croatia ? The devastating possibility, devastating only to imagine it, is that they would receive a boost from the 'moderate' Nazi Berlin without wars that would have brought us to a whole Fascist Europe for a century, or perhaps more. But do you imagine horror?"

What if a different Fuhrer more moderate and less insane has take the power and his strategy had been the German economic power,a network of agreements with authoritarians Europeans powers and good relations with the conservative British establishment?
 

samcster94

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I don't think such a leader would even be part of the Nazi Party. The DNVP is a better candidate for a "moderate", which I imagine to rule with an iron first and still anti-Semitic, but don't plan to conquer Europe and build gas chambers. What I imagine is imagine a Putin-like figure being in charge of a fascist Germany(the Saarland is seen more like Crimea). Yes, the idea of other countries going fascist(Salazar kind of was and obviously Italy) is a threat, but Italy would probably be feared in doing this more directly far more than this Germany. Germany would instead slowly destroy democracy in its borders rather than take absolute rule within two months. Ironically, this universe's Europe in the 1930's look closer to OTL 2017 than our 1930's, only without any of these fascists even pretending to be democrats(small d) like Le-Pen,Wilders or Austria's failed candidate do OTL given democracy wasn't as trusted back then. The other used would be Jews rather than Muslims, and Israel, of course, would not exist in TTL given none of these leaders would go full out Holocaust(even if there is a Kristallnacht analog, and some government-backed mob killings). Japan would likely look worse in TTL given it would probably be no different and the Nazis would not overshadow it.
 
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