If Hitler died in the 1939 or 1940,. how he would be viewed by history? Which be better?

Question

He took Austria and Czechoslovakia without a shot fired. Did a lot to help the German economy. Also, would have been before any major crimes in the east. If he died that summer would be considered a great leader?

Or if he died in July 1940 after he defeated Poland in a month. Then took Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France in the spring of 1940 alone...while driving the British of the continent

It would have been before the Holocaust, there would have been some crimes in Poland and discrimination in Germany against Jews. However, America in the 1930s had Jim Crow laws and Segregation based on race.

So if he died in 1939 he would have died without firing a shot. Not engaged in any major atrocities. (besides political purge and general discrimination but not more than the USA)

If he died in fall 1940 he could have been seen as the greatest conquer. However, he would also have carried out major crimes in Poland by then..but the Soviets did too. Would not yet have carried out mass genocide or his failed attack on the USSR. Goering probably would have took over (ho was against the war with Poland even..so unlikely would have invaded the USSR and WWII could ended different

Is there any point in time if Hitler would have died and would have gone done well in history??
( FDR has despite the racism (he didn't start it) and interning Japanese Americans during WWII)

Answer 1

That 'd foreclose the War, with USSR & USA spared the trouble of entering in it- with a sigh of relief.

Then nobody talks of Hitler, the War he'd have initiated & so on - like most non-events.

That would also mean the continuation of anachronistic, old European overseas Empires that held ¾ ͭ ͪ of humanity in colonial thralldom.

It would also mean a certain stagnancy in the progress of Science. Electronics, Aviation would have remained in the same level as 1950s (with main-frame, hall-filling behemoths of Computers & no Internet). There'd be fresh breakthrough in Nuclear Technology & someone would have a made the first 'Atom (fission) Bomb' now. There'd be Radio sets with medium & Short Wave bands relying on ground wave & Ionospheric skip propagation as there'd be no satellites. With 3 TV channels per county, half wave dipoles & county-based TV stations & trannsmission of porograms- would be the norm.There 'd be no TV in the Imperial colonies. There'd be no person answering to the call 'Turing' (he'd be there but teaching Boolean Algebra in a University). No cell phones, but walkie-talkies used by top generals in the armies. At the turn of the millennium (& century) some scientist would have made the first doped-junction semiconductor 'p n p' device & with newspaper articles predicting an era of whole circuits on tiny Germanium chips (Silicon still to be accepted as semiconductor material across the board, due to its difficult technology).

Half the Atlantic traffic would be on super-liner fast ships making 30 knots & only the rich would fly in McDonnel-Douglas Super Constellations. Boeing 707 would be the biggest aircraft carrying 180 passengers on a 9 hour crossing of Atlantic. Britain would have made a Jet engine for transcontinental military flights to NewZealand/Australia. A certain Arthur C Clarke proposed in Wireless World magazine that there is a possibility of a world-wide Communications skipping the Ionospheric propagation, if only a static-in-orbit satellite at 40 Megametres above Earth is placed . Oil extraction industry in Middle East brings prosperity.

Imperial Japan in full flow with a major part of China (Manchuria) as well as Korea under its possession, makes repeated forays to capture British India, while holding the whole of SE Asia (except Siam). There are less number of wars as all Imperial powers hold their territories, in harmony with each other after the demise of the old 4 resident Empires in Europe.

Answer 2

The Nazis are often credited with bringing Germany out of the Great Depression, but any competent government could have done that. The Wiemar government, which was weak and decentralized, recovered from the inflation of the mid 20's.

You can't ignore that as soon as Hitler got his Enabling Act, Himmler created the concentration camp system. The Nazi regime was fanatically oppressive. People who were found innocent of crime in court were often re-arrested by the Gestapo in the court room. For this reason alone Germans suffered badly. It's true that the Jim Crow laws in the South were very bad, and that the science of eugenics was developed in the USA. Nonetheless the number of judicial executions in Germany went far beyond what was happening in the US states. And the internment of the Japanese does not compare with the Nazi concentration camp system.

Hitler was very cunning, but great he was not.

Answer 3

NO. Go back and read your history instead of trying to spin his violent bigotry and reckless path toward war to try to make them look "great". His economy was a pyramid scheme, his atrocities began in the 1930s. Jews were persecuted throughout his rise to power in the 1930s culminating in the Kristallnacht in 1938 and was shipping jews, gypsies, homosexuals, political enemies and the mentally ill off to concentration camps before Poland was invaded. He is responsible for the murder of plenty of plenty of political enemies (look up Night of the Long Knives).



Using an overwhelming military machine to invade and occupy neighboring countries just to provide room for the "master race" is far from great. Conquerors of peaceful other countries have not been viewed as "great" for a very long time.

Answer 4

He would've gone onto be the beloved leftist success boy; what your history books and fake news, tv isn't telling you is that many a leftist praised Hitler on how he used Socialism to uplift a bankrupted nation, a reason why he got Times man of the year, his praise was throughout leftist politcians, magazines, zines, and leaders of the time; of course that changed with WW2 and censorship surely followed after the defeat on how the left used him as a poster boy...

Answer 5

Had Hitler died in 1939-40 of course he would be viewed more favorably by historians. He was then at the height of his career, before war with Russia and the US led to serious losses and defeat (also before the worst of the mass liquidation).Had Hitler died in 1939, before WWII, but after his initial successes like taking Czechoslovakia, Germans would mourn him to this day and historians would generallly give him high marks.

Answer 6

"Is there any point in time if Hitler would have died and would have gone done well in history?"



1917

Answer 7

Can you name me one good honorable dictator?



You cant, because dictators are bad. Some are worse than others.



Its like saying there are good devils. No matter what good a devil do, he is still a devil.

Answer 8

no because he invaded free nations he was an oppressor of freedom. Neo nazis sigh;.