Thanks!
Germany needs to attack the Benelux in order to have any chance of defeating France, though; after all, a German attack straight through the Maginot Line is guaranteed to fail.Göring would be new chanchellor-president. And he hardly would invade Denmark and Norway. Might be that he too leave Benelux alone and attack directly to France.
And no Barbarossa.
Germans might have now better chances win the war.
Göring would be new chanchellor-president. And he hardly would invade Denmark and Norway. Might be that he too leave Benelux alone and attack directly to France.
And no Barbarossa.
Germans might have now better chances win the war.
The question is, without Hitler, would Göring still insist on a Lebensraum ideology?
And if yes, to which extent? He may be content with keeping and integrating the Polish conquests but going no further. And even for Hitler, the conflict in the West was not planned from the start and not desired - the whole idea was to conquer and enslave the Eastern Europe (Poland, Soviet Union, etc) and the war on the Western Front was simply to ensure that France and UK do not attack Nazi Germany while it is busy with their colonization wars in the East. A limited East Europe domination plan - conquest of Poland, grabbing Czech industrial capacities, ensuring access to Romanian oil but not much more - may see a Sitzkrieg on the Western Front played out to the end without lots of fighting, with an inconclusive peace settlement on the status quo ante bellum and a return to pre-WW1 fortified borders, basically an Iron Curtain along the western border of Germany.
Well, based on what I've heard about Goering, he was a Wilhelmine Imperialist--not an ideologue. Thus, probably not.
Would Britain and France agree to a return to Germany's 1914 borders in the East, though? After all, this would still be a German victory relative to the pre-war situation!