CP victory: What happens to OTL WW2 German leaders and generals?

Thande

Donor
A fairly common aspect to Central Powers victory timelines is that they will have a cameo of Adolf Hitler still stuck in some very minor position. But what about other Nazi luminaries and, to my mind more interestingly, the military bigwigs of the Germans in WW2? Which ones would still be in significant roles if there was the usual analogous WW2 with a fascist Entente in the 1940s, and which ones would be stuck as underlings without the Nazi takeover?
 

maverick

Banned
The Aristocrats like Gerd von Rundstedt would be there, along with several German Princes. Remember that Max of Bavaria IIRC, and Crown Prince Ludwig had armies under their command in 1914.

I don't know how much could the Imperial army have liberalized by the 1940s so as to allow non-aristocratic commanders. I could also be misremembering that and maybe they were allowed after all.

In any case, you also got men like Robert Ritter von Greim for the Imperial Luftwaffe, Fedor von Bock, Erich von Manstein, Gunther von Kluge and Walter von Reichenau, for example.

Of course, Ludendorff and Scheer weren't noblemen, but the majority of the Imperial armed forces higher echelons were staffed by the nobility, IIRC.
 
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