How many people would have heard of Hitler?

WI Britain and France had better intelligence about the potential weakness of the Nazi forces in 1938, and had supported Czechoslovakia. Assume the little Entente- Romania and Yugoslavia plays ball and Poland is either allied or neutral in ways helpful to the Czechs,

It is distinctly possible that the Nazis would be fought to a standstill.

The military might get rid of Schickelgruber.

How many people would be all that interested in those events 70 years later?
 
He'd be remembered as a revanchist and exponent of the morally bankrupt and buffoonish system that is fascism. After all, Mussolini and Franco are. But the big monster of the 20th century will likely be Stalin, and we'd be having Alt-Godwin's Law and tasteless jokes about the gulag.

There'll likely be defenders of him, too - people who point out that if it hadn't been for Hitler, the Communists would have taken over in Germany and raped all the nuns, and some TLs about how a successful conquest of Czechoslovakia and Poland would create a powerfuzl, unified and happy Mitteleuropa that can repel the Soviet hordes in the war to come.
 
WI Britain and France had better intelligence about the potential weakness of the Nazi forces in 1938, and had supported Czechoslovakia. Assume the little Entente- Romania and Yugoslavia plays ball and Poland is either allied or neutral in ways helpful to the Czechs,

It is distinctly possible that the Nazis would be fought to a standstill.

The military might get rid of Schickelgruber.

How many people would be all that interested in those events 70 years later?


Are you asking as in a global view or Germany specifically? The Nazi's were not about to give up power and Hitler would rule probably until his death (assuming he doesn't follow his suicidal instincts and ruin Germany at a later date) say around 1960. I think you would see some power shifts and power plays after his death with the National Socialist gradually losing powers. In 2008 I think the world would not know anything about Hitler except maybe he was the dictator of Germany following the First World War and Depression ... assisting in their recovery.

In Germany I think the history books would be making him and the party out to be the saviours of the nation and such propaganda would indoctrinate people into this 'memory'. Following his death like the Nazi power I believe that legendary status would fade to the point that 70 years later he's a major figure at a certain point in history but no more than say Hindenburg or someone.
 
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