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Comment author: DanArmak 11 August 2014 04:16:04PM 0 points [-]

Hitler might well have had to have been replaced for the Nazi state to have held onto power if it had won the war.

Why? I never saw Hitler as particularly idealistic and unsuitable to the reality of a government wielding power and practical politics.

Comment author: Baughn 11 August 2014 05:53:29PM 3 points [-]

By the end of the war, Hitler was - to put it bluntly - insane, to a large part due to drug abuse. He would have had to be replaced because he was no longer competent to run a state.

There's a longer story here, involving among other things an incompetent doctor. I would not be surprised if the overall course of the war was affected by Hitler's insanity, but I don't know to what degree that's true.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 12 August 2014 03:51:57AM 0 points [-]

Because the German people would eventually notice that the Jews were gone, and yet they still had all the problems Hitler had blamed on the Jews.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 12 August 2014 07:38:26AM 5 points [-]

They could still blame the problems on a) imaginary Jews, b) Jews living in other countries, c) other "inferior" humans, d) Germans influenced by Jewish thinking, e) non-Jewish traitors of the new Reich.

(If socialist countries can be used as an analogy, they never had a problem to find some enemy to blame, regardless of how many of those alleged enemies they already killed decades ago.)

Comment author: DanArmak 12 August 2014 09:45:18AM 2 points [-]

If they had really won the war, they wouldn't have had so many problems.