WI: Hitler was motivated by revenge?

In OTL, we know that Hitler was motivated by the "stab-in-the-back" myth: that Germany had not really been defeated by the Allied Powers in World War I, but betrayed by Jews and socialists on the home front. It was for this reason, amongst many others, that the Holocaust happened.

But what if Hitler was instead motivated by a desire to seek revenge against the UK and France for what they did to Germany in World War I?

This Hitler plans to invade and conquer both countries, and then have them thorougly dismantled and absorbed into a Greater German Empire. In TTL, British and French people would be treated like the Jews and Slavs in OTL.
 
Ideologically, this Hitler would be a nationalist rather than national socialist wouldn’t he? He’d be after national glory in Europe rather than living space.

Perhaps he becomes a more mainstream politician in the Weimar Republic in TTL.
 
Peter Tsouras did something on this I recall, about if Hitler served in the navy rather than the army and so focuses on Britain as the primary enemy rather than Russia out of a desire to get revenge. I believe it ends with the destruction of Berlin by atomic bomb, with him along with it, but not before he has a-bombed London first.
 
The Holocaust as we know it doesn’t happen - instead it’s a systematic destruction of any captured land that joined the Allies in WWI. The Nazis May end up like the Japanese, destroying captured peoples and inflicting unspeakable brutality on those they capture (see: Bataan Death March and picture the Nazis doing that shit in France.)

They would still be remembered as evil sons-of-bitches and brutal motherfuckers, and Hitler would still be remembered as the most evil sack of shit ever to walk the Earth, but it would be for entirely different reasons.
 
In a different vein: a Hitler motivated by revenge doesn't go on an indiscriminately genocidal killing spree, but a targeted killing spree against ideological opponents and anyone who ever crossed him.

RIP Vienna art school, etc.
 

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Peter Tsouras did something on this I recall, about if Hitler served in the navy rather than the army and so focuses on Britain as the primary enemy rather than Russia out of a desire to get revenge. I believe it ends with the destruction of Berlin by atomic bomb, with him along with it, but not before he has a-bombed London first.
Not sure how that works. IOTL he never served on the Eastern Front, yet still saw the Soviets as the main enemy; in his army service his division AFAIK exclusively fought the Brits and suffered a lot of losses against them, especially during the Kindermord. If anything OTL Hitler should have been interested in revenge against them if his military service mattered for that.
 
In the short term there are changes, but don't forget what the underlying Nazi philosophy was--a totally Aryan world. The slave races would be allowed to survive until there were enough Aryans to replace them. If the Thousand Year Reich lasted a thousand years there would only be Aryans left by that time. Sooner or later the British and French would have to go.
 
Hitler was an Anglophile, with a great admiration for the Empire. To make him hostile to Britain, you basically have to change his underlying psychology.

He did hate the French, though - Mein Kampf is more anti-French than anti-Jew.
 
In OTL, we know that Hitler was motivated by the "stab-in-the-back" myth: that Germany had not really been defeated by the Allied Powers in World War I, but betrayed by Jews and socialists on the home front. It was for this reason, amongst many others, that the Holocaust happened.

"reason among many others" contradicts "we know... motivated... stab-in-the-back".
 
I did a worst case scenario were Hitler was motivated as per OTL, but really believed in an actual Jewish conspiracy which had infested Britain and the US as a parasite. Some of the same effects with regards to the main strategic enemy, but it needs to be a lot of butterflies in a scenario focusing on Island enemies - unless it ends with early defeat on the continent
 
I did a worst case scenario were Hitler was motivated as per OTL, but really believed in an actual Jewish conspiracy which had infested Britain and the US as a parasite.

While in OTL, as we know, he did not believe in anything like that, right?
 
While in OTL, as we know, he did not believe in anything like that, right?
Not in a quite so literal sense. He certainly believed the British people still had the strength to oppose such a conspiracy. Thats why he didnt see Britain as a natural enemy.
 
While in OTL, as we know, he did not believe in anything like that, right?
Here is the quote from his zweites Buch

[Original citation: The instincts of Anglo-Saxondom are still so sharp and alive that one cannot speak of a complete victory of Jewry, but rather, in part the latter is still forced to adjust its interests to those of the English. If the Jew were to triumph in England, English interests would recede into the background.... [But] if the Briton triumphs then a shift of England's attitude vis-à-vis Germany can still take place."[6]
 
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