Alternative nazi Germany

During the late 1940 plane crash somewhere over Germany. Among people who died are Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler. New Fuehrer is Rudolf Hess. Killing of Jews is continued, assimilation of Poles is continued. In 1941 Barbarossa begin. Hess do not interfere in military work so much. Luftwaffe is better. Hess promises to creation of independent contries (puppet states of Germany) in SU (Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Caucasus states...).

Can this Germany win WWII?

Sorry for bed English.
 
During the late 1940 plane crash somewhere over Germany. Among people who died are Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler. New Fuehrer is Rudolf Hess. Killing of Jews is continued, assimilation of Poles is continued. In 1941 Barbarossa begin. Hess do not interfere in military work so much. Luftwaffe is better. Hess promises to creation of independent contries (puppet states of Germany) in SU (Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Caucasus states...).

Can this Germany win WWII?

Sorry for bed English.

Welcome to the board!

No worries, bed English is my favorite kind.

On the OP, I'll check the search function and come back with links...

EDIT: First of all, I doubt they would all be on the same plane ever so the basis of the idea is questionable, but Hess as Fuhrer was discussed here:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/archive/index.php/t-74437.html
 
Yeah, Rudolf Hess won't attack the USSR. He would try to make peace with the UK the moment he becomes Fuhrer.

next actions depends on what "late 1940" is. Is it October? November? Did the Italians attack Greece yet?

Rudolf Hess was a coward and not fond of the war. I really doubt if he would come too the Italians aid and attack Yugoslavia. Though he might on advise from his Generals.

On the other hand he might convince Italy to cancel their invasion in early 1941 as part of the peace deal with the UK.

Or is that too far-fetched?
 
The problem is that Hess' personality all but dooms him to be the puppet of more powerful men. With all the powerful politicians gone, he'll simply become a puppet of the military brass. Unless of course the military just decides to out and out remove him and not bother with the puppet.
 
The problem is that Hess' personality all but dooms him to be the puppet of more powerful men. With all the powerful politicians gone, he'll simply become a puppet of the military brass. Unless of course the military just decides to out and out remove him and not bother with the puppet.

With all the Nazi big heads dead, Germany becomes Wehrmacht playground ... I´m not sure about UK, they may not accept a peace if is not very favorable to them and Churchill could ( and probably will ) be resolute to fight anyway, but yes any plans againts SU will be defensive, but if Stalin commits the ( not very probable ) err to attack them things are going to be hairy ITTL
 
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