Before you start, yes I realize this is something that may have been done before. However in going though the archives I have tended to notice that many similar thread tend to run along the lines of:
"ZAP! WWII never happens, what happens next?"
And of ten not go much into HOW WWII is prevented.
For anyone who has seen some of my other threads, I tend to focus much more on the "How" then what happens next.... Though that is also something fun to postulate on.
Another thing I have noticed is that often changing history rarely revolves around a single event. History works like a web and many different actions in the past shape the future. In this case however, I present a merging of two often postulated timelines that, together, may ensure a world without a World War.
Too begin with, in WWI
Hitler is killed by a stray bullet. His removal from time will have a series of changes I will go in later. At the end of WWI, the treaty of Versailles
Is Altered and ends up not crippling Germany economically.
Meanwhile, without Hitler a series of events unfolds.
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Money: Without "Mein Kampf", a seizable amount of Revenue is denied to the fledgling Nazi Party.
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Policy "Mein Kampf" also became a policy bible to the Nazi party, again without it, the Party is denied a more populist message.
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Charisima Hitlers charismatic nature was also key in winning over many important part members. He knew how to manipulate the media and radio. Without him many key figures would not have joined.
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Accession to Chancellorship When the time came, could you imagine anyone else other then Hitler convincing Heidenberg to turn over the keys over power so fully?
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The Krupp intervention Even with the money form Nein Kampf, in the OTL the Nazi party nearly went Bankrupt in the mid 20's. It survived only though an eleventh hour salvation from money from the Krupp COmpany due in large part to the companies son, Alfred Krupp. Joining the party early on. It is recorded that what entranced Alfred about the Nazis was in large part, the charisma of Aldof Hitler.
Then in 1932 as Germany is still recovering from WII, during the election with a weak and ineffectual Nazi party
Hugo Eckener Runs for the German presidency.
Putting these Three different alterations together into a single timeline, how effective would these in conjunction be at Preventing WWII, and what sort of Germany may grow out from these changes through 30's and into the 40's?