The Nazi Germany under Goering thread brought up an interesting if horrible thought what would Germany be like run by Himmler for three decades?
The first assumption when its brought up is that much of the officer corps would rather kill themselves then be led by the genocidal chicken farmer which has a fair bit of truth to it, but if Hitler is killed in say 1938, you could see Himmler puppet someone like Hess into purging his major enemies in the Army while growing the power of the SS and then kill Hess a few years later and conduct his own Stalin like Great Purge of the officer corps.
That would leave Germany in no position to a world war, but it could leave Himmler in charge of the German state for some time. It makes me wonder the point at which ordinary people would get over their fear of being killed to stand up to the SS assuming of course Himmler tries to force his insanity and things like neo-Paganism down their throats.
The first assumption when its brought up is that much of the officer corps would rather kill themselves then be led by the genocidal chicken farmer which has a fair bit of truth to it, but if Hitler is killed in say 1938, you could see Himmler puppet someone like Hess into purging his major enemies in the Army while growing the power of the SS and then kill Hess a few years later and conduct his own Stalin like Great Purge of the officer corps.
That would leave Germany in no position to a world war, but it could leave Himmler in charge of the German state for some time. It makes me wonder the point at which ordinary people would get over their fear of being killed to stand up to the SS assuming of course Himmler tries to force his insanity and things like neo-Paganism down their throats.