DBWI what if Hitler was a man

Before world war two some people belived that if women were in charge that it would be a world with out war. When the first female Chancler of germany rode into power on the heels of the far right wing Nazi power some people hoped that she would be a peaceful moderating factor in the nazi party.

50-80 million deaths later, after europe was turned into a charnel house no body belived that at all.

But what if she had been born a man instead of a woman, still did all the same things still performed all the same attrocities and just had her gender changed? How would that change the world?
 
Before world war two some people belived that if women were in charge that it would be a world with out war. When the first female Chancler of germany rode into power on the heels of the far right wing Nazi power some people hoped that she would be a peaceful moderating factor in the nazi party.

50-80 million deaths later, after europe was turned into a charnel house no body belived that at all.

But what if she had been born a man instead of a woman, still did all the same things still performed all the same attrocities and just had her gender changed? How would that change the world?
French Women would probably be able to vote.

edit: could be interesting to see an overwhelmingly female franchise
 
The postwar Soviet Bloc's female exclusion acts from party positions does not happen. Some said they took motivation from the Spanish Communists previous refusal to allow women the right to vote because of the sway of the Priests on female voters and the Conservative Party in the UK's success with female voters against the more male dominated Labour movement. But really, Stalin's famous misogyny was merely confirmed by the betrayal of the USSR by Frau Hitler.
 
Before world war two some people belived that if women were in charge that it would be a world with out war. When the first female Chancler of germany rode into power on the heels of the far right wing Nazi power some people hoped that she would be a peaceful moderating factor in the nazi party.

50-80 million deaths later, after europe was turned into a charnel house no body belived that at all.

But what if she had been born a man instead of a woman, still did all the same things still performed all the same attrocities and just had her gender changed? How would that change the world?

The world would be a lot better. Didn't Frau Adalwolfa (OOC: German for Noble Wolf, in reference to Hitler calling himself "Wolf") Hitler avoid being drafted as a nurse in WWI and then use the Weimar Republic's looser gender role standards to get elected by a sheer fluke based on far-left ideology that later mutated into a deadly, Mosley-esque third position "beehive state"? Hence "national socialism".

"A place for everyone, a job for everyone, a duty for everyone, everyone for everyone" was one of the mottoes.

Herr Hitler would just die in WWI.
 
It might not be that much better for women. Remember the Japanese Atrocities made them loathed, too. But nonetheless their victories forever disproved the myth of White Martial Supremacy.
Without Frau Hitler proving in a sea of blood, that women are as good at being bad as men, misogynists wouldn't be able to invoke her a convenient bogeyman (or should that be bogeywomen), but there might be a lot more of old-style paternalistic misogyny going around of women still not being taken seriously regarding being able to make hard choices.
Instead of say Jacqueline Bauer raising waves for the violence and the torture scenes in 24, morally grey roles like that might still be dominated by men and females on the TV either victims or utterly morally perfect paragon heroines.
 
The postwar Soviet Bloc's female exclusion acts from party positions does not happen. Some said they took motivation from the Spanish Communists previous refusal to allow women the right to vote because of the sway of the Priests on female voters and the Conservative Party in the UK's success with female voters against the more male dominated Labour movement. But really, Stalin's famous misogyny was merely confirmed by the betrayal of the USSR by Frau Hitler.

OOC:

Feminism, or at least equality of the sexes, has a long history in marxism, going all the way back to the Communist Manifesto and especially Engels' book on the family, property, and the state, and continuing through the early Bolsheviks. I really think it would take a LOT more than one godawful woman leader(even on the moral level of a Hitler) to get the Communists to renounce that whole aspect of their platform and opt for outright male supremacy.

North Korea, on the other hand, did and does propogate racialist theories derived from the same looney-tune sources that informed European "scientific" racism. But I believe that was originally an imposition of the Japanese colonialists, which the North Korean leadership(along with the dictators in the South) continued with after the occupation, as a quick-and-easy tool for building national cohesion. Maybe if Russia had at one point been conquered by the Whites or later the Nazis, who then enforced a highly patriarchal ideology on the population, the Communists would absorb that, and then, with unintended irony, turn it against the former occupiers after liberation. And, even then, I doubt the Soviets would become explicitly anti-feminist, more just implicitly so, eg. mocking supposed feminine traits of western leaders, extoling women who serve the motherland by raising children etc(and some of that took place under Stalin IOTL anyway).
 
The world would be a lot better. Didn't Frau Adalwolfa (OOC: German for Noble Wolf, in reference to Hitler calling himself "Wolf") Hitler avoid being drafted as a nurse in WWI and then use the Weimar Republic's looser gender role standards to get elected by a sheer fluke based on far-left ideology that later mutated into a deadly, Mosley-esque third position "beehive state"? Hence "national socialism".

"A place for everyone, a job for everyone, a duty for everyone, everyone for everyone" was one of the mottoes.

Herr Hitler would just die in WWI.

She avoided being drafted as a nurse in the Austrian service only to volunteer to do courier work for the german army.

I don't get that, if your going to dodge the draft in one service why would you volunteer for a much more dangerous job in another countries milatary?
 
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