Let's say he has a stroke a few days after Munich and annexing the Sudetenland.
Is he a hero? Still a villain? A more ambiguous figure?
Is he a hero? Still a villain? A more ambiguous figure?
Who follows him? If the person who follows him continues his anti-jewish plans as stated in Mein Kampf than he would be blamed for any atrocity that occurred. Germany may still invade France to avenge the Versailles Treaty.
Who follows him? If the person who follows him continues his anti-jewish plans as stated in Mein Kampf than he would be blamed for any atrocity that occurred. Germany may still invade France to avenge the Versailles Treaty.
Goebbels? Von Ribbentrop is getting fired for sure though. Himmler gets kept a professional arms length. Goering was not hooked on morphene at this point. The Holocaust was a product of the war, its not going to happen without a war starting because German society wouldn't tolerate it, it was only able to happen on foreign soil IOTL. As it was they freaked out over the T4 program and got it stopped:Goering is likely to succeed him, and basically become Mussolini: Reich Edition.
Goebbels and Von Ribbentrop are purged. Himmler takes over most state affairs once Georing begins to sink into a Morphine Coma. Holocaust will still occure, although perhaps not as brutally as IoTL- Goering is however the man who ordered Hydrich's final solution. He's also more inclined to the idea of Mittleuropa, in which small 'liberated' states are dominated by Germany and forced to feed the Reich materials.
Goebbels? Von Ribbentrop is getting fired for sure though. Himmler gets kept a professional arms length. Goering was not hooked on morphene at this point.
The Holocaust was a product of the war, its not going to happen without a war starting because German society wouldn't tolerate it, it was only able to happen on foreign soil IOTL. As it was they freaked out over the T4 program and got it stopped:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4#Voices_of_opposition
and were able to stop some of the deportations of Jews:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest
Goering wasn't particularly interested in the Holocaust IOTL even though he initially ordered it; he did that on Hitler order according to Richard Overy's biography of Goering (I'm not making the claim, Overy is). Without Hitler driving the Holocaust and Goering sucking up to his every whim to gain more power, its likely that the Holocaust doesn't happen, it just stops and depriving the Jews of rights and eventually citizenship, while stealing all their property.
http://www.amazon.com/Goering-Hitlers-Knight-Richard-Overy/dp/1848859325
Hitler gone in 1938 ?
Maybe succesful assatination ?
Rudolph Hess was designated succesor than, born 26 April 1894 – died 17 August 1987.
It would be long and much darker Germany if he would succed to maintain power for life as Franco did.
He was put into detox in 1927 (IIRC the date) and kicked it by the time was was elected to office on the Nazi ticket. His only additions at that point were power, food, and shopping (he missed a meeting he flew to Austria for in 1942 to go shopping for jewelry in Vienna).Goebbles and Goering didn't have the best relationships, and were known to have been at one another's throats. Disposing him is disposing an potential rival. Goering had been a morphine addict since 1923, having become addicted following the Putsch.
Assuming there is no war or expansion beyond the Sudetenland and Austria there isn't going to be genocide, they'd just keep forcing Jews out of the country; in Germany between 1933-39 over half of the Jewish population emigrated and they'd probably keep that up for Austrian and Czech Jews that were annexed in 1938.The Holocaust would be simply become further Aryanization in that case.
Agreed. However Goering was only named Hitler's legal successor after the war started in 1939, so at this point there is no defined successor and Hess as deputy-Führer has the most likely claim with the public compared to Goering. Goering though had the biggest standing in the party to take over without Hitler.Hess was Hitlers Deputy- literally his Personal Assistant. This position, whilst giving him incredible powers, was not one that placed him as the successor. It would only be in the case of both Hitler and Goering dying (and even then the line of succession wasn't in place until 1939) that Hess would become leader, and it would be unlikely to be a permanent vocation.
He was put into detox in 1927 (IIRC the date) and kicked it by the time was was elected to office on the Nazi ticket. His only additions at that point were power, food, and shopping (he missed a meeting he flew to Austria for in 1942 to go shopping for jewelry in Vienna).
Assuming there is no war or expansion beyond the Sudetenland and Austria there isn't going to be genocide, they'd just keep forcing Jews out of the country; in Germany between 1933-39 over half of the Jewish population emigrated and they'd probably keep that up for Austrian and Czech Jews that were annexed in 1938.
Agreed. However Goering was only named Hitler's legal successor after the war started in 1939, so at this point there is no defined successor and Hess as deputy-Führer has the most likely claim with the public compared to Goering. Goering though had the biggest standing in the party to take over without Hitler.
If Germany had not gone to war in 1939 the economy would not have been able to last long. Taking some drastic austerity measures would be necessary to fix things, but Göring or Hess or whoever was in charge would have a hard time convincing the people that their lives would need to get worse again for the long-term good of Germany.