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After Hitler sacked Von Brauchisch in the winter of 1941 he tried to appoint Reichenau as chief of the OKH and thus the eastern front. Reichenau was a thoroughly committed Nazi on the order of Model or Schorner but had proved a decent field commander in Poland, France, and Barbarossa.

The general staff on the whole rejected him for being too political and presented Hitler with a united front against the appointment. Hitler then more or less abolished the post and made himself chief of the eastern front with all the disasterous consequences of letting a rank amature run multiple army groups.

What if the general staff was less objective to him or was willing to see him as an alternative to Hitler himself. What would the effects have been of having a semi competent voice in the room who Hitler trusted and was also competent with military strategy?
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