So, a long while ago I started an Alternate History idea where Hitler died around February 1942 (I can't remember if a plane crash or heart attack or what). The idea I had, to try to change up the whole "Himmler outmaneuvers Goering and Goebbels to become Fuehrer" was that Albert Speer, just named the Minister of Armaments a month or so before, was named the successor to Hitler as a compromise candidate.
Looking back on it, I realize that the idea was kind of silly, even though I think Speer would have been a good leader of Wartime Germany that Hitler never was, if is work in the Ministry of Armaments is any suggestion.
So, the question I ask you: baring the big name candidates like Himmler, Goebbels and Goering, who could become Fuehrer if Hitler dies in 1942, and how would it play out?