AH Challenge: Hitler not evil just brillant

Your task is to have Germany enter WWII, have it last for atleast three years, and have it end with the Nazi party kicked out, wiped out, or just disappear. However it needs to be in the way that its just a war, and not a clash of good and evil, Democracy, and dictators, just two sides fighting.
 
Yeah, for starters no personality holocaust.

Germany has to be really provoked and seen as the victim, so it acts in self defence.

The Wehrmacht will need to conduct itself with rigid discipline. No SS execution style units, no abuse of local populations, no slave labour...no bombing raids. Very very hard. ASB?

And personality transplant for Hitler.
 
Yeah, for starters no personality holocaust.

Germany has to be really provoked and seen as the victim, so it acts in self defence.

The Wehrmacht will need to conduct itself with rigid discipline. No SS execution style units, no abuse of local populations, no slave labour...no bombing raids. Very very hard. ASB?

And personality transplant for Hitler.

I do not think you need to go that far to be honest. Everyone fought with bombing raids, so really you just need the police battalions to lighten up, or be disbanded or not even formed. If the issues becomes "Well sure you say Hitler was cool but after the war he was going to kill all the jews," is a very different outlook then "look what he did during the war."
 

Valdemar II

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First we need to focus legitimate reason for war. Like the fact that large scale German population lived outside Germany and wished to become part of Germany; Sudetenland, Danzig, Memel and Austria. Beside that there also existed large scale discrimination toward Germans in Poland. So Poland is likely where we need to start this war

When we need to make the Nazis less unpleasant; let's remome the racial aspect and make them democratic. Result; a nationalist militaristic centrum left party.

When we need to truely make the allies the bads guy, else allied propaganda is going to make Germany into some kind of, well "Nazis", just like allied propaganda did to the Second Empire. The best way to do this is making the Polish government into a really disgust regime. So we need a autoritarian antisemitic xenophobic fascist regime. Best case is if Poland starts the war by invading Lithuania, and (a democratic) France join on Polands side to ensure that Germany doesn't come to dominate Europe, when Germany join the war on Lithuania side.
 
All we need is some expierence in world war 1 where a jewish soldier saves him. He'll remember that for the rest of his life
 
All we need is some expierence in world war 1 where a jewish soldier saves him. He'll remember that for the rest of his life

He'd probably resent the Jew for humilitating him...


But even if it did change his mind, that'd pretty much take all the fire out of him and his political career as it was.
 
Wasn't the commanding officer that gave him his medal(Iron cross I think?) a jew? Maybe make Hitler more affected by that, which makes him relax on the racial aspect. It probably wouldn't take away all of his hatred but just enough so a final solution might be out of the question.
 
Wasn't the commanding officer that gave him his medal(Iron cross I think?) a jew? Maybe make Hitler more affected by that, which makes him relax on the racial aspect. It probably wouldn't take away all of his hatred but just enough so a final solution might be out of the question.

So instead of death camps, just the standard labor camps? That's a lot better...
 
Wasn't the commanding officer that gave him his medal(Iron cross I think?) a jew? Maybe make Hitler more affected by that, which makes him relax on the racial aspect. It probably wouldn't take away all of his hatred but just enough so a final solution might be out of the question.

Interesting enough a Jewish Officer did give him an Iron Cross, however our Corporal Hitler got in in a hospital bed wounded, he viewed this as "insult to an injury", just a little tidbit.

But yeah, remove the Holocaust and that turns Hitler into a Napoleonesque Figure
 
I've been recently thinking about a "nicer" nazi germany, and the thought crossed my mind that you could have a more pragmatic and less genocidal leader but still be able to have him be antisemitic. So in stead of forced labor or extermination, in stead Hitler or some other german dictator sees the manpower potential of all those undesireable races but still wants a "clean" german fatherland. So in stead of so much forced action, he decided to passive aggressively push the jews out of Germany proper. So he enacts some defacto anti-jewish laws such as unfavoreable zoning and tax laws in primarily jewish neighborhoods within Germany then eliminates all antisemitic legislation in German controlled Poland and France thus causing the Jews to want to leave Germany for greener pastures elsewhere. Although not anywhere near nice or moral, such actions would be no worse than those of the USA or other nations at the time, especially regarding Japanese american citizens. Also no "jewish question" removes one hurdle to cooperation between Britain and Germany. Then maybe make France communist which breaks up the Entente probably, you might just get some kind of communism vs. capitalism type of war in stead.

Hell, with no holocaust, hitler might look quite a bit nicer than Stalin, his body count is much lighter. If you eliminate racism from hitlers regime alltogether, he would probably be viewed as some sort of great leader who tried to restore his nation to former greatness and was the strongest voice against bloshevism in europe.
 
Aiding the Finns in the Winter War would provide a flashpoint for war where Germany is on the right side.

If the hatred of jews is dialed down a bit, would Hitler ironically become a strong supporter of a jewish homeland?
 
Heh. There are people who think Stresemann has been a lawful neutral genius, but there are some things that a a true genius could pursue that haven't been touched on.

For starters; A Reciprocal free(r) trade agreement with America in the 1930s.
 
Your task is to have Germany enter WWII, have it last for atleast three years, and have it end with the Nazi party kicked out, wiped out, or just disappear. However it needs to be in the way that its just a war, and not a clash of good and evil, Democracy, and dictators, just two sides fighting.

So just like real life then?
 
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