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Originally Posted by August
I disagree about Hitler. He had plenty to be proud of. His party brought the German nation back from the depths of a depression that was far worse than anything experienced in the US or anywhere else for that matter. He gave the German people back their pride lost after WW1 which was the key to the nazis success.
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The price was too high for just giving Germans back their pride. Doing so was not so much the goal he wanted to accomplish, but a tool for reaching far beyond Germany, and cleaning non-Aryan people off the face of the earth. "Mein Kampf", as far as I am aware of it and was told about it, made that clear since very early. Where others would have sought to reestablish Germany's status amongst the other powers, and then eventually would have fallen victim to megalomania, Hitler already had fallen to that idea when he talked of overcoming of Versailles and giving Germans back their pride. It was only a tool to do so, not the final goal.
Another interesting "waht if"-scenario. What kind of Germany would we see today, if the Nazis did not came to power, Germany did not brake the treaty of Versailles and would have choosen to stuck in the economical misery it was in. Civil war? Another bad guy showing up? War nevertheless? Annexation by france, or a Western alliance? Russian intervention? Maybe there are evn more alterntaives how history would have developed than in the case of the Scenario sixpack originally described in this thread.
Let's talk about quantum physics, Kopenhagen and Schroedinger's cat, and alternate universes
Who knows, maybe, despite all horror in our world, we nevertheless do live in one of the better realities there are, or will be, or has been....