Hitler killed in car crash

I'm not sure if this topic has been asked before, but I'll have a go:

Hitler was involved in a car crash on March 13th 1930, almost six months before the Nazi party rose to significance. He narrowly survived the crash and escaped unscathed.

My question is: What if Hitler was killed in the car crash?

What would've happened to the Nazi Party? It was already known to the public but would it have still survived?

Which party would've won the German election?

What would an eventual WW2 be like?
 
Hitler becomes a martyr for the Nazis. Göring may succeed Hitler and possibly get elected chancellor. If Göring does get elected, Nazi Germany looks much more like Mussolini's Italy than Hitler's Reich and WW2 is avoided. Germany manages to annex Austria, the Saar and the Sudetenland but Göring doesn't seek any more territorial acquisitions.
 
Hitler becomes a martyr for the Nazis. Göring may succeed Hitler and possibly get elected chancellor. If Göring does get elected, Nazi Germany looks much more like Mussolini's Italy than Hitler's Reich and WW2 is avoided. Germany manages to annex Austria, the Saar and the Sudetenland but Göring doesn't seek any more territorial acquisitions.

Goering's Germany might not quite be the extreme horror that Hitler's Germany was IOTL, but I'm afraid it might not butterfly the Holocaust and WW2 is definitely inevitable; the only question is not "If...", but "When?".
 

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Wow. Interesting question.

Doesn't anybody think Goebbels would have played some major role in the party's upbringing without Hitler, though? As in, more major than he did?
 

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Goering's Germany might not quite be the extreme horror that Hitler's Germany was IOTL, but I'm afraid it might not butterfly the Holocaust and WW2 is definitely inevitable; the only question is not "If...", but "When?".

I disagree. Goering didn't want to go to war and was only anti-semitic because the nazi party members told him to be. At most Nazi Germany would be an apartheid state as oppose to a genocidal one, if he even cared to take action.

Personally, I don't think the Nazi Party would rise like it did WITHOUT Hitler. Hitler was Nazi Germany, so if Hitler got killed in 1930, he'd be another politcal nobody, and the Nazi Party would fizzle out.

I just can't picture it getting to the heights it did without Hitler.
 
As The said, Goebbels would play a major role, but I don't see that as being hugely bigger than OTL. And what of Reinhard Heydrich?
 
I disagree. Goering didn't want to go to war and was only anti-semitic because the nazi party members told him to be. At most Nazi Germany would be an apartheid state as oppose to a genocidal one, if he even cared to take action.

Personally, I don't think the Nazi Party would rise like it did WITHOUT Hitler. Hitler was Nazi Germany, so if Hitler got killed in 1930, he'd be another politcal nobody, and the Nazi Party would fizzle out.

I just can't picture it getting to the heights it did without Hitler.

Goering might not been been as hardcore of an anti-Semite as Hitler was, true. But unfortunately, there were others that came close, and the Nazis weren't the only reactionaries in town, either. A plausible scenario I can think of is that perhaps the Nazis become more willing to ally themselves with the Junkers and other more mainstream conservatives; doable, but would require the jettisoning of the more fringe parts of the Nazi Movement, the occultists in particular.

On the other hand, I do wonder what the fate of the Volkswagen would have been. Keep in mind, folks, that Porsche had been working on the concept as early as the '20s, and that evidence has surfaced in recent years that he and a lesser-known compatriot, Joseph Ganz, collaborated from time to time around 1930-32 or so.
And as you know, Hitler gave the thumbs-up to the prototype when it was shown to him in 1933, and he told the good Doctor that he would ensure civilian production, but in fact, that project never came to pass, and only a few prototypes were made, all going to the hands of the Party.

Could Hermann Goring be more sympathetic to Porsche and perhaps honor his wishes for the Volkswagen to enter mass production? It may be a bit of a stretch but it might be doable, I suppose.
 
Also, I'm wondering what part the Soviet Union would've played in this eventual WW2? Mind you, that depends what party would be ruling Germany.

What's more, what would the Allies do?
 
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