[Perdogg]

One could argue that Hitler was one of the biggest advantages to the Allies in WW2. Had someone else ran Nazi Germany, the outcome could have been different.

[MuttTheHoople]

There was a movie about some Allied saboteurs trying to keep German Officers from assassinating Adolf Hitler because his incompetence was winning the war for the Allies.

I think that, if Hitler was killed, the new Fuhrer would've been, prior to 1941, Hermann Goring and, after 1941, Reinhard Heydrich. Goring was a fat drug addict and there would've been civil war. Heydrich would've been MUCH more dangerous for the Allies.

What I would've liked was if someone had killed Stalin in the 1910's or 1920's, before he began his reign of terror. If Germany tried to invade the USSR, there would've been much more competent Soviet Generals to oppose them and, quite possibly, they'd have been more successful in defeating the Nazis (or the Imperialist Germans who might've succeeded Hitler) sooner.

Yet ANOTHER scenario would be, if Hitler was assassinated after the fall of France, but before the Soviet Invasion of 1941, Germany would've gotten a competent leader who invaded the USSR in March/April rather than June 22. Not only that, but if they'd had treated Soviet soldiers and civilians humanely (the Wehrmacht was originally considered Liberators), then Stalin would've probably been taken out back, shot, then thrown into a ditch by August.

[SamAdams76]

One could argue that Hitler was one of the biggest advantages to the Allies in WW2. Had someone else ran Nazi Germany, the outcome could have been different.

Very true. Hitler made some incredible military blunders and singlehandedly lost the war to the Allies. The decision to invade the Soviet Union in June 1941 was especially horrendous. Up to that moment, Germany had total control of most of Europe and could have worn down Great Britain at leisure with blockades and by continuing the Blitz. Instead, they send four million troops into Russia and become increasingly bogged down as they quickly outran their supply lines.

This gave the Allies enough breathing space on the Western front to build their military on a colossal scale, which led to the mainland invasions of 1943 (Italy) and 1944 (France).

The Germans had world domination within their grasp but they threw it all away due to giving absolute power to a pin-headed corporal whose only strong point was the ability to give fiery speeches and mesmerize an audience.

[Ghost of SVR4]

I agree with you (as hindsight goes). It was Hitler’s pedantic and controlling nature that ultimately doomed the German Army (on more than one occasion).

[LouAvul]

Had someone else ran Nazi Germany, the outcome could have been different.

Exactly. Had Rommel and his fellow officers succeeding in assassinating Hitler, command would have defaulted to military geniuses. The war might have had a whole different outcome.

As it was, they had a faggot who insisted on consulting psychics and astrologers for military strategy. No, I wouldn't have killed him either.