DBWI: Hitler doesnt die in 1935

That Mein Kampf book he wrote sounds pretty scary. But German politics was pretty crazy back in the day, and I guess sounding crazier than everyone else was how you got to power then. I dunno.

Still, some of it just seems insane. Invading RUSSIA of all places? That's just asking to get your shit slapped. Granted, the Soviets at the were struggling to deal with (lol) Finland. Maybe a good war would have helped them develop their combined arms tactics, and the invasion of Manchuria in 1941 goes a lot better than it actually did.

Kinda interesting he hates Jewish people; it's kinda gone down in recent years but a lot of people still believe in that "hook nosed greedy Jew" stuff.
 
Hitler was the chancellor of Germany from 1933-1935.

Him not dying would probably nip European socialism in the bud and contain the rise of the USSR. A direct war with Russia is pretty much ASB (for one, Poland is in between them, and Poland had a military that could equal whatever Germany manages to muster (and would never consider alliance with so many germans in its lands) - and for another, any hostile move towards Poland brings in the Czechs and French (who had the biggest army in the continent) and maybe even the British. Nobody is stupid enough to do that, and nobody is skilled enough to outmaneuver all of them.)


However, in the the two years Hitler held power, Soviet-German trade was massively cut. Since the USSR got most of their foreign equipment from Germany, that likely means a screeching halt to their industrialization. With their economic power disabled by isolation and their diplomatic one disabled by the lack of widespread socialism in Europe (and governments united against them), the USSR will probably end up stagnating into irrelevance in the long-term.

That ends up leaving the middle east in uncontested European hands - so less oil-driven chaos towards the latter half of the century. Japan gets even more dominance in the far-east, though still ends up at loggerheads with the US.
 
He wrote a book?

Edit: Looked it up. Crazy stuff. But the wiki page is about a paragraph. Any links with something better?
 
OOC: He didn't go unnoticed if he died in 1935, he was Fuhrer by then. Rudolph Hess would have probably succeeded him and continued to build up the military and break the treaty of versailles by occupying the Rhineland and force Anschluss. Nuremburg laws would be enacted too probably.
 
Him not dying would probably nip European socialism in the bud and contain the rise of the USSR. A direct war with Russia is pretty much ASB (for one, Poland is in between them, and Poland had a military that could equal whatever Germany manages to muster (and would never consider alliance with so many germans in its lands) - and for another, any hostile move towards Poland brings in the Czechs and French (who had the biggest army in the continent) and maybe even the British. Nobody is stupid enough to do that, and nobody is skilled enough to outmaneuver all of them.)

perhaps he allied with the USSR to divide up Poland? sounds ASB, but if stalin somehow died and was replaced, maybe. I doubt the french would want to mess with russia:cool:
 
perhaps he allied with the USSR to divide up Poland? sounds ASB, but if stalin somehow died and was replaced, maybe. I doubt the french would want to mess with russia:cool:

That doesn't really make any sense. Ally with Russia to defeat Poland so that you can get at Russia? That sounds like something out of a movie.

But still, even if that happened, Germany would get curbstomped in short order. Russia is on the other side of the continent, so it doesn't stop France from pushing into Germany. It might cause Czechoslovakia to either be "persuaded" to stay put or split its forces, but it still doesn't look too good for Germany.

Really, you cannot escape the fact that they are a crippled nation, with a crippled army, in the middle of the continent, surrounded by hostile nations. In any war, they would have to try and kick everybody's ass at once - and I'm not saying the Germans are bad fighters, but they aren't godly ones either.

Now, if you got France and Germany together somehow, you might get a different picture - though it does require some pretty wild POD's to let France be satisfied with German hegemony in the east. Probably stronger USSR, more radical Spain and a British revolution - that would make them feel pretty encircled, and probably create a nice little tripartite pact of France-Germany-Italy (might even get Poland to join voluntarily).

But really, in OTL, there is no chance of France and Germany ever co-operating as allies for a century or something.
 
People are too dismissive of Germany's military potential, had Hitler survived it's very possible his planned expansion of the German army would have gone ahead earlier, he probably would have managed the economy to a better extent than his drugged up failure of a successor, we might not get the great recession of 1941 with a stable German economy.
 
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