Extrajudicial assassination

What if the French (or another country,like USSR o,why not,Italy) secret service had recognized Adolph Hitler potentially dangerous, and did kill from an agent in 1930?
Nazism would collapse?
 
Naw, somebody totally ruthless and ambitious would just replace Hitler. And maybe this new guy would have a better impulse control.
 
The Nazi party in 1930 was pretty volatile, and mostly held together by Hitler. If he got killed, there would bew fighting over who represents his 'heritage' and a good chance of the party eerging battered and too late to ride its 'bump' in 1932/33 to victory.

And it really doesn't matter if it comes out or not, Hitler's death *will* be blamed on foreign powers.

IMO your best candidate would be the GPU, incidentally. But that only works if Stalin changes his stance towards the Nazis. I can't see the British doing it, I couldn't see a French government authorising it, and I can't imagine the American servbices even coming up with the idea, let alone succeeding.
 

Blair152

Banned
What if the French (or another country,like USSR o,why not,Italy) secret service had recognized Adolph Hitler potentially dangerous, and did kill from an agent in 1930?
Nazism would collapse?
You have the law of diminishing returns at work here. Let me explain. In
Chicago, you had North Side Gang and the South Side Gang. The North Side
Gang, in 1929, was headed by Bugs Moran. The South Side Gang was headed by Al Capone. By 1929, the North Side Gang had lost most of its
leadership in its ongoing war with the South Side Gang. Bugs Moran was
it. Then on February 14, 1929, came the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Capone brought in outside help. The killers were dressed as Chicago police
officers and detectives. To make it look all the more convincing, it was made to look like an ordinary arrest. Moran was still the leader of the North Side Gang, but the North Side Gang was a shadow of its former self.
The same, I think, would be true of the Nazi party. If Hitler was killed, lets say some time between 1921 and 1935, then his successor, whoever that
might be, will be slightly more competent, his successor, less competent,
and so on down the line.
 

pnyckqx

Banned
What if the French (or another country,like USSR o,why not,Italy) secret service had recognized Adolph Hitler potentially dangerous, and did kill from an agent in 1930?
Nazism would collapse?
Then some baffoon such as Ernst Roehm takes over the Nazi Party. The German military decides to settle his hash, and Germany gets on with the business of rebuilding their nation and economy.
 
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