Looking for a PoD

Goring was a pig. He would have done anything to stay in power & the way to do that was to continue with, and this is critical, the immensely POPULAR programs that Hitler had initiated.

What seems to be forgotten all too often is that the Nazis were not operating in some sort of vacuum. The government had more support from the public than any of the last four U.S. administrations. The German PEOPLE didn't dislike the Nazis until they began to lose the war (yes there were dissenters, but damned few of them). Until the war started going really bad for the Reich Germany had the highest standard of living in Europe (amazing what happens when you have all those other countries to suck dry) and had been awash in consumer goods at affordable prices since the Party took control. Under Hitler, for a time, the German people were able to put the bitter taste of defeat and loss from the final results of WW I in the rearview mirror. (When France fell there was LITERALLY dancing in the streets across Germany.)

There is a book titled Hitler's Willing Executioners that looks at the populations support of the Nazis and their programs. While the author, like pretty much every writer that ever lived, has a point of view that he is expressing (and thereby interprets everything in that light) the raw facts presented in the book, and in numerous others, makes clear that any clever political leader without a shred of humanity (a condition that described Goring, Hess, Himmler, Goebbels, and the rest of the Party leadership to a "T") would have continued what the beloved Fuhrer had begun.

So Nazi Germany was bad to the bone. And by what you said if I wanted the Third Reich to become the "good guys" it wouldn't be anything close to what it was OTL. I wish I knew more about history so I could figure out a way to change the way Nazi Germany worked. Maybe a PoD before Hitler's rise to power, back when Germany was a democracy. Maybe the NSDAP forms differently with different ideals, policies, another leader to take them to power?

The one thing I really want in my TL is a successful German Socialist Government, doesn't have to control all of Europe, but it does have to be allies or friendly with Britain and at least the U.S.
 
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