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This is a spin off of this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...en-able-to-accomplish-generalplan-ost.390353/

Imagine a scenario identical to the premise of CalBear's Anglo American Nazi War TL where the Reich has dominated Europe, defeated the USSR and occupied it up to the Urals while achieving an indefinite state of peace/stalemate with the WAllies.

1: Would a victorious Reich that has complete continental hegemony moderate in any way? Would it be virtually identical to what it looked like during the war? Or would it get even more extreme becoming horrifyingly insane and nightmarish?

2: Would the Reich carry out the various plans it had IOTL (Generalplan Ost, replacement of the Heer with the Waffen SS, reconstruction of German cities, increased birthrate etc) or would those plans be altered or abandoned?

3: Would German society become increasingly indoctrinated/brainwashed in the Nazi worldview? Would there be any rebellion or discontent?

4: If Hitler died would his replacement be a moderate or a fanatic just as nuts as Hitler? How would the potential leaderships of Himmler, Speer, and Goering compare to one another?

5: Is this quote from Albert Speer accurate?

If the Nazis had won, of course, things on the surface would eventually have settled down to an appearance of normality. The milkman would deliver his milk in the morning, the policeman would enforce the law, the doctor would cure the sick, people would still worry about their jobs, fight with their wives, save for a new car. But they would be living in a nightmare, buried in a graveyard of human hope and dignity, trapped in a hell they would never recognize, much less question. The long dark night would have begun, and finally man would not even remember the light.

I personally believe that a victorious Reich under the insane leadership of Hitler and his inner circle of true believers would be built on top of a mountain of corpses that would make Mao and Stalin look like amateurs in terms of scope, scale and pure evil. Their position as the absolutely most evil nation state in history would be cemented. The Holocaust would have been a footnote when compared to what they had in the works for the Slavs after the war. Over 100 million Russians/Poles/Balts/Ukrainians/Czechs/Belarussians would be worked to death in a 20 to 30 year time frame, many in the process of destroying their own cities with their bare hands.

The best way to describe a victorious Nazi Germany that stretched from the English Channel to the Urals would be a continent spanning necropolis, an unimaginably evil and nightmare fueled empire devoted to the extermination/enslavement of entire ethnic groups deemed "subhuman" and the superiority of the Aryan Race.
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