With a POD no earlier than 1925, make the Axis be widely seen as the "good guys" of WWII.
BUT...
1. They must lose the war
2. They can't win a WWIII afterwards
BUT...
1. They must lose the war
2. They can't win a WWIII afterwards
With a POD no earlier than 1925, make the Axis be widely seen as the "good guys" of WWII.
BUT...
1. They must lose the war
2. They can't win a WWIII afterwards
Perhaps a settlement in madigascar for the Jews, apartheid style.Trotskyite Russia almost manages to swing the Spanish Civil War the other way. Hitler proceeds more or less as OTL until the Munich agreement, but becomes embroiled in a stalemate with the Soviets over Czechoslovakia. Poland protests border violations by both Germany and Russia, and when Hitler invades to 'protect his people,' Britain and France feel obliged to declare war. With the Heer fully occupied in the East, France takes the opportunity to re-occupy the Ruhr. German morale collapses with this 'stab in the back,' and the war ends in early 1942 as only the the intervention of the Italians prevents French and Soviet troops from coming to blows. The last city to surrender is Danzig, evacuated with the help of the Royal Navy. In the ensuing Cold War, Hitler and Mussolini are remembered as heros, whose only thought was for the unity of their people against the Red Menace.
Perhaps a settlement in madigascar for the Jews, apartheid style.
Perhaps a settlement in madigascar for the Jews, apartheid style.
Simple, have the war end before the final solution is implemented.No Holocaust for a start but I don't see a way to talk Hitler out of that.
Or Operation Vegetarian, perhaps.If the Allies go through with the Morgenthau plan, maybe.
Have Stalinist Communist parties dominate worldwide after the war, with all of the brutality that entails?
Some imperial officials like in the man in the high castle protected Jews. The fugu plan
Because those areas lived under Nazi occupation. People in Europe have a vastly different view of imperial Japan than Koreans and Chinese do. Also, the repression in Eastern Europe was not as bad in 1967 as it was in 1947, when Stalinism was still very much in vogue. Still Hell though I will grant you.That would not by itself be enough. After all, Stalinist Communists did dominate eastern Europe after World War II, but in general, outright support of the Axis as "good guys" has not been the position of the mainstream parties in these countries in the post-Communist era.
That would not by itself be enough. After all, Stalinist Communists did dominate eastern Europe after World War II, but in general, outright support of the Axis as "good guys" has not been the position of the mainstream parties in these countries in the post-Communist era.
Ignoring the popularity of Jobbik, the fact that Russia has the highest amount of Neo-Nazis on the planet, Ukrainian Nazi fighting units in the Donbass, higher Far Right support in the former GDR as compared to the rest of Germany, and the recent controversy over Polish Far-Right nationalists, of course.
I was careful to qualify that by saying "mainstream parties" and "on the whole." Neither Putin's party nor the Law and Justice Party nor Fidesz nor any other ruling party in eastern Europe can IMO justifiably be accused of taking a "the Nazis were the good guys" position, however much these parties can be legitimately be criticized for authoritarianism and in some cases use of stereotypes with anti-semitic associarions.