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Originally Posted by RGTraynor
...Goering? The Army never would've allowed his accession -- aristos almost to a man, they considered him a jumped-up parvenu...
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Originally Posted by Rasputin
...The guy was a war hero, which made him popular with the public. His father was a colonial administrator in Namibia and he had the highest possible marks from his military schooling, earning him the personal commendation of the Kaiser. If they could accept a hick Bavarian corporal like Hitler, they could accept Göring. (And Hess, not Himmler, was the other choice at this time. Since Hess was a known bisexual and four years from going mad, he would have been nixed fast.) Göring almost assuredly would have been a weak leader, and wasted his time trying to loot the German treasury...
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People often forget what a hero Göring was to the German people after WW I. He ended the war with 17 aerial victories, and in command of Richtoften's Circus(Red Baron). When he wasn't high on morphine, or being a hedonist, he could be surprisingly effective, and very dangerous.
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Originally Posted by Gedrin
...However, it's unlikely that he'd be in office, and Churchill taking the role of anti-Soviet rather than anti-Nazi is natural.
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Actually, until the rise of the NAZIs, Churchill was known as an implacable foe of Communism, and Stalin in particular. When he realized the more immediate threat that Hitler was, he concentrated his efforts against him. At first when Churchill tried to warn everyone, he was treated as a frightened old man who was trying to re-fight WW I, later after he had become Prime Minister and Hitler declared war against the U.S.S.R., some of his political opponents accused him of inconstancy with his willingness to help Stalin.
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Originally Posted by Keiko
Interesting question...
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A well thought out alternate history.