AH Challenge: The best possible 1940s

Hitler dies in 1938, just after Munich; Göring takes over. As a pragmatic (if corrupt) leader, he takes a dim view of the SS and other fanatics and runs Germany as a traditional dictatorship. When the Soviets attack Poland in 1942, Germany allies with the free world to defend it, defeating the Soviet armies and liberating Russia in the process. With international supervision and without the racial fanatics at the top, Germany doesn't treat the Russians as badly and are genuine liberators. After the war, a partitioned Russia of independent capitalist nations is set up; Germany regains Danzig and the Corridor. It then exists till Göring dies in the late '50s/early '60s, after which it becomes a democracy again.

The Jews in Poland are resettled to Palestine due to native and Nazi anti-Semitism.

In the Pacific, the US goes to war over Panay, never allowing the Japanese to get as far as they did IOTL. Japan negotiates a peace which leaves the Home Isles untouched while still evacuating China and giving up its Imperial ambitions.

Thus, both the worst of Nazism, Communism and Japanism are avoided. THere is still a major war, but that is more or less unavoidable.
 
Nazis never take over, instead some other right-wing government, Trotsky wins the power struggle and the USSR goes to war with the West, loosing and being replaced by a democracy in the late 30's. Japan aims for northward expansion into the USSR instead of China with the US but the two turn on each other and Japan is defeated by the early 40's. Israel is never formed because the European Jews, never being persecuted are happy there.

No Stalin, No Hitler, No Japanese atrocities, No Israel and Israeli-Arab conflict. The world's worst problem is colonialism leading to a Euro-American Cold War over it.
 
Stresemann survives, and democracy survives in Germany, after a fanish. In the east, a more assertive west can smack around Japan by strangling its economy in 38.
 
It's not "least bad" if the Jews don't get their own country...:(

To make it so that all anti-Semitism disappears in Europe without Hitler, when the Civil Rights movement happens in America, the Europeans will sympathize with the Blacks and see the Jews in their land as being in a similar situation, eliminating anti-Semitism from the mainstream.

Also, I think we would live in a better world without the State of Israel because from a religious perspective, I disagree with Zionism completely because I believe that the only time the Jews can return to the Holy Land as a people is "when they return to God" in the end times but secularly, I have nothing against the core idea of Zionism and support Israel's right to exist but I frown heavily upon the actions of Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as I see it as a form of colonialism and occupation.
 
To make it so that all anti-Semitism disappears in Europe without Hitler, when the Civil Rights movement happens in America, the Europeans will sympathize with the Blacks and see the Jews in their land as being in a similar situation, eliminating anti-Semitism from the mainstream.

Also, I think we would live in a better world without the State of Israel because from a religious perspective, I disagree with Zionism completely because I believe that the only time the Jews can return to the Holy Land as a people is "when they return to God" in the end times but secularly, I have nothing against the core idea of Zionism and support Israel's right to exist but I frown heavily upon the actions of Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as I see it as a form of colonialism and occupation.

Civil Rights would still not affect the '40s, and I strongly doubt it'd have any hitting power in central/eastern Europe, where both the most Jews and the most antisemites live; people there were (and are) rather conservative.

Israel as such... well, it's an old discussion, but my view in a nutshell is that they're right in combating terrorism and that they aren't, in fact, doing it hard enough. Gaza is a perfect example; the single greatest mistake they ever did there was evacuating under that fool Sharon and giving Hamas a free base.
 
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