DBWI: What If Hitler Wasn't Assassinated?

What if Adolf Hitler wasn't successfully assassinated?
How would history of played out differently?
What would are world look like today?
OOC- I'm aware there was more than one attempt to kill Hitler, its up to the reader to decide which one worked.
 
Don't know. He was growing in popularity when he got poisoned in 1930...

Certainly, Goering wouldn't have had his chance to rise to power. A combination of the remaining Nazis plus support from more traditional conservative elements let him take over quite handily. A living Hitler wouldn't have allowed that. And no Goering likely means no war with the Soviets over Poland, thus no general War against Bolshevism...
 
Don't know. He was growing in popularity when he got poisoned in 1930...

Certainly, Goering wouldn't have had his chance to rise to power. A combination of the remaining Nazis plus support from more traditional conservative elements let him take over quite handily. A living Hitler wouldn't have allowed that. And no Goering likely means no war with the Soviets over Poland, thus no general War against Bolshevism...

Didn't Hitler too supported some war against Soviets? I think that he spoke something about expansion to East on his book "Mein Kampf".
 
Didn't Hitler too supported some war against Soviets? I think that he spoke something about expansion to East on his book "Mein Kampf".

True. I should have said: no Soviet war so early. He'd probably have tried to settle scores with France first. Goering, by contrast, was all about the Eastern front. Plus...he was a drug-addled lunatic at times, but he was a lot more sensible than Hitler too. He secured the annexation of Austria, but he didn't even touch the Sudetenland, because he knew that the Western powers would never go for it.

Actually, with a war in the west, I wonder... When the War against Bolshevism grew, Japan got involved in the East, taking Sakhalin and Primorsky Krai. If they hadn't been diverted there, and if Germany had fought Britain, could Japan have gone South, against European colonial territories? I mean, post-war, Britain ended up quitting India, but if the Japanese had fought them, they could have lost Hong Kong and Singapore, among other places. Which would open all manner of butterflies - look what a financial hub British Singapore is today.

Moving back to Europe... could no Hitler lead to the butterflying away of Finland's post-war annexation of the Kola Peninsula?
 
True. I should have said: no Soviet war so early. He'd probably have tried to settle scores with France first. Goering, by contrast, was all about the Eastern front. Plus...he was a drug-addled lunatic at times, but he was a lot more sensible than Hitler too. He secured the annexation of Austria, but he didn't even touch the Sudetenland, because he knew that the Western powers would never go for it.

Actually, with a war in the west, I wonder... When the War against Bolshevism grew, Japan got involved in the East, taking Sakhalin and Primorsky Krai. If they hadn't been diverted there, and if Germany had fought Britain, could Japan have gone South, against European colonial territories? I mean, post-war, Britain ended up quitting India, but if the Japanese had fought them, they could have lost Hong Kong and Singapore, among other places. Which would open all manner of butterflies - look what a financial hub British Singapore is today.

Moving back to Europe... could no Hitler lead to the butterflying away of Finland's post-war annexation of the Kola Peninsula?
Yeah, and if Alexander the Great had died the Persians would've overrun Greece and lived happily ever after.

I think you may be exaggerating the great man theory to the point of ridiculousness... Japan had been fighting China and Russia alternatingly for decades, and suddenly they're going after their more friendly not-even-neighbours?

And I don't know, if Hitler would've really kicked off a war over the Sudetenland... his generals were aligned with Goering's anti-bolshevism too. Hitler'd never come to power without their backing, and so would have to focus on bolshevism too.

More likely the Nazis without Goering become another failed party among the list of failing parties before Goering's rise.
 
Poisoned? I thought the final decision was suicide when he didn't get the position he wanted in the party? That's why I thought the title was funny! I mean, who wants to kill a loser who can't even get a date?
 
A German politician in the thirties, he attempted a very unadvisable coup in Bavaria and wrote a book on his philosophy called Mein Kampf.
Be forgiving for not knowing him, he is very obscure outside of German history junkies.
 
True. I should have said: no Soviet war so early. He'd probably have tried to settle scores with France first. Goering, by contrast, was all about the Eastern front. Plus...he was a drug-addled lunatic at times, but he was a lot more sensible than Hitler too. He secured the annexation of Austria, but he didn't even touch the Sudetenland, because he knew that the Western powers would never go for it.

Actually, with a war in the west, I wonder... When the War against Bolshevism grew, Japan got involved in the East, taking Sakhalin and Primorsky Krai. If they hadn't been diverted there, and if Germany had fought Britain, could Japan have gone South, against European colonial territories? I mean, post-war, Britain ended up quitting India, but if the Japanese had fought them, they could have lost Hong Kong and Singapore, among other places. Which would open all manner of butterflies - look what a financial hub British Singapore is today.

Moving back to Europe... could no Hitler lead to the butterflying away of Finland's post-war annexation of the Kola Peninsula?
I think not, Finnish irredentism was going to happen regardless.
I just can't the Finns sitting down for a peace conference and not wanting their brother in liberated.
 
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