Iberian Peninsula next? (with a small portuguese participation in the Pacific War)?
The Iron Eagle - The History of the Cold War
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Jes Lo
Banned
Since he barely gave the German American Bund the time of day, I don't think he'd throw his weight behind a group as decentralized and radical as the KKK.
I have added a new poll as we come closer and closer to the 1950s and a changing time in World History.
Voted for Heydrich in how his Reich would be a very dangerous foe to the Americans.
Honestly, having Fritz Todt's plane crash still be a thing ITTL was kinda a waste of potential as he could have been a "dark horse" candidate for Fuhrer here.
Todt still suffered his “accident” and his position went to Speer, he is not only the grand architect in charge of Hitler’s expensive vanity projects, but also represents the Corporate interests of the growing Industrial conglomerates such as IG Farbien, the Reichswerke (after Göring’s death), Krupp, Siemens, etc.
Todt might’ve been an efficient bureaucrat (most of the success of Speer can be attributed to his program), but he lacked the personal connection to Hitler that makes Speer a potential candidate. He wouldn’t be much different from lesser known bureaucrats such as Walter Funk and Hans Lammers: Influential in giving support to a faction but not enough to be power players of their own unless disaster happens.
Hermann Göring died in 1945 shortly after the creation of the Linz Pakt due to an assassination, “apparently” by Polish partisans. In response the Reich destroyed Warsaw and turned it into Hermannstadt.
That’s if you buy into his “The good Nazi technocrat” personality that he crafted for himself after the war, although he’s less of a radical compared to most the other options.
Jes Lo
Banned
The fact he's at least partially responsible for German war crimes just makes him more of a Khrushchev-esque figure to me.
Well if you call organizing the largest slave labor in modern history as “partially” responsible, then yes, he’s more like Khrushchev, although I would consider Bormann more of a Khrushchev-like figure if it comes to personal scheming and power games.
On that note, I would say Goering is much like Zhdanov in the sense of "presumptive successor dying prematurely and screwing up the succession".
Jes Lo
Banned
Honestly just having someone go for some mild reforms might do the Reich some good.Either by the hand of some moderate innocuous Party figure or potentially by the Wehrmacht who instate something more manageable and less fanatical.
it's still better than the proto-medieval, pagan world and the obscurantism of our "dear" hated Himmler
People really seem to be focusing on Speer and Heydrich, don’t forget the other players. Although Hess is more likely to be played, rather than be a mind of his own, he’s still technically the successor as Göring is gone if we go by Hitler’s decrees, which are basically the Word of God in Europe.