DBWI: What if Churchill hadn't shot Hitler?

As we all know Winston Churchill shot Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrur of Germany in 1936 at a meeting as he believed that Hitler wanted a war, rightly or wrongly.

What would have happened if Churchill had not shot him?
 
As we all know Winston Churchill shot Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrur of Germany in 1936 at a meeting as he believed that Hitler wanted a war, rightly or wrongly.

What would have happened if Churchill had not shot him?

He probably would've still had a career for one. He'd also have stayed alive for another. And finally, Germany's recovery and subsequent growth possibly wouldn't have been retarded for over a decade, especially considering the civil war wouldn't have happened.

(OOC: Yeah, this is implausible as all get-out)
 

Phyrx

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ASB; you'd have to change human nature itself to keep those two off each other. It's like asking, "what if Kennedy and Nixon didn't get into a fistfight during their second debate?", or, "what if Reagan didn't headbutt Gorbachev in 1986?"
 
The Anglo-German War, which saw Germany devastated beyond repair, wouldn't have happened, for one. The Civil War also didn't help things
 
If Churchill didn't assassinate Hitler in 1936, then the Oster Conspiracy would have staged a coup and assassinate him anyways in 1938.

(OOC: How? They weren't even a thing until 1938)

I dunno about that. I mean, you are dealing with the frontmen for what is just a step up a British puppet state when you mention them. Besides, they never did form a plan beyond killing Hitler.

Plus, do they even have the popularity or ability to topple the government? Sanjurjo didn't, and look what happened to him. His coup failed and he lost the resulting civil war.

Phyrx said:
"what if Reagan didn't headbutt Gorbachev in 1986?"

Oh yeah, that. Never have we come so close to nuclear armageddon than that day... or the time that Nixon gave Khrushchev the finger in 1963 during the SALT I Conferences.
 
Oh yeah, that. Never have we come so close to nuclear armageddon than that day... or the time that Nixon gave Khrushchev the finger in 1963 during the SALT I Conferences.

To be fair, the Russians didn't know what it meant, as they use that weird finger-curling thing... but then the media got ahold of it. Do you remember the famous "America Doesn't Give Russia The Finger" speech Krushchev gave a week later?

(OOC: As long as we're going ASB, I might as well throw in a speech.)
 
To be fair, the Russians didn't know what it meant, as they use that weird finger-curling thing... but then the media got ahold of it. Do you remember the famous "America Doesn't Give Russia The Finger" speech Krushchev gave a week later?

(OOC: As long as we're going ASB, I might as well throw in a speech.)

I saw some footage of it, but never the whole thing. I thought it was sort of interesting how he came off like an irate teacher lecturing an unruly student. It's sort of a good thing he was so level headed and into realpolitik, since a more impulsive Premier could hypothetically have pushed the breaking point.

The results were pretty obvious though, since we had no real disarmament talks until 1977.

It's kind of weird how politicians have a habit of going violent. I guess its the stress of managing government.
 
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