*Hitler sitting in a recliner* *The recliner next to him blows up* Hitler: “Hmm, closer than last time.”

Hitler's next in line being named "Himmler" is the most Waluigi bullshit.

Nobody can assassinate Hitler. Hitler: Fine, I’ll do it myself.

“This enraged his father, who punished him severely.”

IIRC, von Gersdof (spelling) rushed to the bathroom after Hitler left early and disarmed his suicide bomb with mere seconds to spare.

I couldn't agree more. No matter who was the leader of Germany after one of these assassination attempts, the Reich was doomed to fail. The Axis simply couldn't keep up with the endless manpower and supplies the allies were sending to the field, and the Soviet red army was a seemingly unstoppable force as it raced to Berlin

2:56 bro his pen spins are insane

In Hitler's will, he named Admiral Karl Dönitz the new head of state. Himmler showed up at Dönitz's place and assumed he was going to have a position in this new government, and was repeatedly told to get lost.

The problem with this scenario, is that the army simply wouldn't have followed Himmler. They were already extremely resentful of the Waffen SS, and would have revolted if the SS took over. With Hitler's death, the oath of loyalty no longer applies, and if it were the army that removed Hitler, they certainly wouldn't then just stand aside while SS thugs seized the state. In my opinion, there would have been 3 options, all of which still end in German defeat: 1: Surrender, as mentioned here. By '43, that is the most likely outcome, as most sane Germans knew the war was lost. There might be significant resistance to surrender in the east, however. 2: Someone more competent at grand strategy leads the war effort. Wouldn't be Rommel. He was not a strategist at all, and had arguably been promoted above his ability. You might see a military dictatorship as the Germans had in WW1. Von Manstein might have been tapped. Having just come of 3rd Kharkov, he had just shown he could work miracles. In any case, regardless who leads the military, the Germans still lose - it just might take longer. 3: If Himmler does make a power grab, then for the reason stated above, you have a civil war. Probably won't be a long one, because the military vacuum left on the fronts will lead to collapse, probably by year's end, if not sooner. Leaves room for a 'stab in the back' theory to take root. Oh, hang on, been there, done that.

Fun fact: Heydrich was barely scratched by asssassination attempt in Prague. He died days later of tetanus caused by this attempt that failed successfully.

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Who knows, but whoever becomes next leader would no doubt try to end the war with the allies, the Soviets would be a different story though

Bomb explodes several chairs away. Hitler: “Huh, two chairs off. That’s a new record.”

Hitler: **survives several assassinations** Also Hitler: *Aight, my turn.*

If Hitler had been assassinated in 1943, Germany would still have been defeated, but the post war map of Europe may have been different. The partition of Germany was agreed at the Yalta conference in 1945. If the Germans had opened their front in the west but kept resisting in east, the allies might have occupied all of Germany, so there would not have been an East Germany.

This alternate history type video is awesome! I'd love to see more from you guys

The himmler scenario plays out in a book called "Himmler's War," where adolf, yodel, Stauffenberg, and many others are killed at the wolfs lair (if i recall correctly), by a lost b-17 who needed to drop its load of bombs to make it back to England. Himmler takes over and nukes Moscow at one point, thanks to Otto Skorzeny. It's a very interesting read.

A really good alterante history video, makes me wonder though, what do you think would happen if Erwin Rommel, became leader of Germany through any of these plots?

Can you guys cover the night of the long knives?

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New idea: make a video of operation torch American and British forces landing in Vichy French Africa.

2:56 I think, if Germany would surrender at that point, then it could have been made into an conditional surrender. At unconditional surrender at that point seems unlikely to be accepted by the new military Government even if they know that they will lose. The War could even last longer with the Military focusing mainly on defense after their failed peace initiative. Some kind of secret deal would have been likely, even if the Allies stated, that they would only accept a unconditional surrender. An unneeded prolongement of the war would probably not be very popular in the Allied Countries that could be restored without a long slog and the US could focus on Japan.

I would expect that the outcome of Hitler being killed would have been a lot worse. I think that Himmler would have used Sarin gas - especially in the east against the Russians.

I cannot believe Simple History made a Vanguard reference at the end there.

There is no way Germany would have accepted an unconditional surrender in 1943. You really don’t understand history. The Germans were very fearful of the USSR and saw the war against Communism as the ‘war for Europe’. Even in 1945 when the war was a foregone conclusion the soldiers fought on - not for Hitler, but because they wanted to save their wives, children and culture from the Soviets and the destruction an “unconditional surrender” would bring.

Hi, could another video be about The assasination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak paratroopers (27.5.1942) ???

Hitler had that plot armor on

The Hitler's head accountant (or head analyst, I don't really remember, nor I care) was asked by Hitler himself, before the war - if Germany starts the war with England and USSR, how long will it take to lose economically? The head accountant's answer (after calculation and so on) was something like "The Germany will lose the war exactly at the moment when the war starts". Of course, that didn't please Hitler, so head accountant was sent to "do his math one more time". He had got the message and made a better-looking answer.

I don't think unconditional surrender would be the case in 1943 since it'd be hassle for Western Allies to force Germans to capitulate without any leverage when they are suing for peace. imo Churchill would try to convince Roosevelt to retract his stubborn unconditional surrender condition if Germans proposed they would leave the occupied territories of Europe and focus on the eastern front.

*Everyone failing to kill Hitler* Hitler: "Fine, i'll do it myself."

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The most likely successor would be Albert Speer or Göring.

*Somewhere in an alternate universe* “I AM HEINRICH HIMMLER! Command of the Third Reich Little known fact, ALSO DOPE ON THE MIC”

Something to think about for sure . Consider this though if Hitler was killed in 1943 , maybe the troops Hitler ordered to defend Calais , would have reenforced Normandy and the D-Day landings would have failed or maybe instead of the Ardennes offensive ,The Nazis fought a pure defensive battle dragging the war out for years ,until Germany could ve had greater #'s of jets fighters to stop allied bombing. Hitler's megalomania and arrogance probably helped the Allies .

I'm a little surprised that Rudolf Heß wasn't mentioned, even if he lost all inheritance after 1941.

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just a thing about animating falling objects (such as in the intro): -when it starts falling, move it slightly -as it falls further, move it 2x as far down as it was -repeat until object hits ground.

The answer is Goering because that is who Hitler said it would be. The designated successor to Hitler was Hess until he flew off to Britain, then Goering until Bormann stabbed him in the back in 1945 and then Hitler declared that the Weimar Republic power structure should return with Goebbels succeeding Hitler's original position as Chancellor and Doenitz succeeding Hindenburg as President. When Goebbels killed himself, Doenitz appointed Schwerin von Krosigk as the new Chancellor. For Himmler to take power, he would have to implement a coup. The Army would never have allowed the SS to do this.

if you guys take up alternate history, then i would watch this channel way more. the visuals alone would do wonders compared to the other dedicated alt hist channels.

I was thinking about this yesterday. what are the odds

Always heard about German gold being found, by the time it makes it to be officially counted it's far less then the original amount. How would an average allied soldier go about selling a gold bar or other valuables? I'd think a bank would ask too many questions and anyone else could steal it from you and you can't go to the police.

6:12 why is the guy being shot pixelated?

The war in the East reached the point of no return, even if Germany appointed a leader who wanted peace, the soviets would demand so much that the new Reich government would be forced into continuing fighting. They would probably ask for peace terms with the western allies and pull out of all occupied territories. After all, Churchill hated both Hitler and Stalin. With Hitler gone, and the Germans out of Western Europe, Churchill may have even supported this new German government against the Bolsheviks. ‘Operation unthinkable’ tells us Churchills views on the soviets.

0:02 US machine gun M60 on sandbags in the back 😀

If it weren't for Britain holding out more or less alone for about a year, Germany would have had a chance. Though the Western Allies would've solved this Dolphy problem had they intervened in 1938, and actually pushed into Germany when Poland was being invaded.

I love how SH loves to reference CoD lmao.

Somebody competent? Germany had the Me-262 in 1939, the Sturmgewehr 44 was getting developed in 1942. Weapons that would've won Germany WW2 if they got them out earlier.

“I was saving the planet from an Axis of Darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!” Winston Churchill

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I swear, Hitler had more luck then a bloody Irish leprechaun for escaping all the assassination plots against him....

I don’t think the Red Army would have stopped for ANY reason. Stalin wanted more territory.

Very good job fellows throughout the 2nd century felicitous week of said moonlight May!! Congratulations. A really good alterante history video, makes me wonder though, what do you think would happen if Erwin Rommel, became leader of Germany through any of these 12 bold plots?!

"Whoever killed Hitler replaces Hitler as the Hitler" Adolf: anyway, I shot myself to replace myself to become myself. (Translated) Go ask his art school

No, the detonator in the brandy did not fail. Instead of a timer, it was designed to detonate when the plane reached cruising altitude. Soon after it took off, one of the engines began to run erratically. Rather than risk a landing, the pilot decided to fly close to the ground in case the engine failed totally, forcing them down.

Alot of inaccuracies in this. March 1943 Germany was still in a good position on the Eastern Front. Sure the Battle of Stalingrad had ended in the total collapse of the 6th Army, but elsewhere the Germans were counterattacking with overwhelming success. One such battle was the 3rd Battle of Kharkiv, in March that ended with just 4,500 German fatalties, and the total collapse of the city of Kharkiv and 45,000 Soviet troops killed, and completely destroyed the combat effectiveness of the Russian front. Which they had to spend April and May recovering from. The war only turned on its head for Germany in the late Summer of 1943, with the failure of Zitadelle in the Kursk region, and the allied landings in Sicily and Southern Italy. And had Hitler been assassinated, there would have been a coup. High ranking Wehrmacht officers would have seized power from the SS. The Wehrmacht and the SS can be described as the Soviets and Americans, they were not friends, but had a common enemy.

43, probably just an earlier end to the war. 40, 41? Now that's interesting.

Worst case in area would have been in 1942. The most likely man to succeed him was Rinehart Heydrich.

"I want that thing" "Okay, You can have i-" "I want that thing" Aaaand Repeat

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There would be a power struggle to end the war.

No one gonna question why they took a scene out of cod vanguard?

Did anyone else notice the M60 on the sandbags at 2:17

The title of this video brings up so many questions...

Loved the call of duty vanguard reference. Interesting stuff. 👍

Fun fact, had Eisenhower supplied Patton instead of Monty, the war would have been over in a few months

With Hitler dead in 1943, I see a civil war as possible scenario. At this point, Himler or someone else wouldn't be the only ones attempt to assume control, the Wehrmacht generals would likely be involved in this power vacuum as well. It may be possible that many Wehrmacht generals would surrender their forces in the Eastern and Western fronts and form alliances with the Allies against Hitler's remnants.

Hitler is the man that always dodges death When he was a kid he already dodges death💀💀

8:05 Someone's been playing COD Vanguard......🧐😆

Basically the war was already lost the moment it began

There was a period in time when Germany could have sued for peace and had a great chance of receiving a negotiated successful state. Pre Barbarossa of course. Best chance after the fall of France and before the Battle of Britain. Britain was actually very split around the time Churchill came into position. If Germany had done similar to this: Germany keeps its borders in Poland, Chzk, Austria, Denmark, keeps a province from Netherlands, Belgium, Alsace/Lorraine maybe more from France, and then: Releases all the rest. France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway restored to new borders, where they sign that all is well and forgiven so to speak. Britain may very well have accepted that and Germany would have doubled its border size. If Japan attacked USA a year later, Germany could just shrug and no European war. Although Germany would have still had some resource worries as far as 88 was of the mindset, they could have sold wheat and other resources for oil and other.

2:19 i like how all of them just fell over after surviving a bomb explosion 🤣🤣🤣

Did anyone else notice the M-60 in the museum? 😅

The best thing to do would have been to make peace with the allies, pull from Africa, then concentrate all forces against the Soviets

Himmler was also a Neo-pagan and despised the christian religion. Himmler also wanted peace with the Allies so the Wehrmacht could focus on the Soviets.

8:06 nice Vanguard reference, even though it's despised.

Not anyone who loved their people more than Uncle A!

Maybe Inglorious Basterds gets the Lord of the Rings treatment? Nah, they'd still kill the top four in one go.

imagine having so little honor, you attempt to assassinate leader of your country during the hardest time it ever had

3:00 pen spin

In an alternate reality where Hitler dropped his plot armour....maybe.

Imagine if Germany wasn't fighting on multiple fronts and used 100 percent of its power against the soviets, I think ending would've been different🤔

That thumbnail though lmao

Likely there would have been a power struggle for a time no clue who would have come out on top though. Really depends on who may have been taken out with Hitler and who could rally sufficient support to seize power. I do agree on the German Army not supporting Himmler as they hated him and the SS.

My money is either a cabal of generals, field marshals and admirals with someone as a figurehead like Erwin rommel

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Any point after Mid 1942, no matter who was in power the war was lost. A slightly more competent military leader, had they taken over before that, such as Himmler or Rommel and a cease fire may had seemed like the allies best option.

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no place for Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz then ?

The "Unconditional surrender only" doctrine the allies were following might, just MIGHT, have been altered if Hitler had been assassinated and the other top Nazis killed or arrested.

8:06 COD:Vanguard reference

Private Henry Tandey of England in WWI tells the story of sparing a wounded Hitler.

If that scene in 8:06 was inspired by COD Vanguard’s campaign, good thinking. That campaign though historically inaccurate was incredible and a great tale of camaraderie.

Eh Yalta conference could have been over turned, i mean its not the first promise made during the war which was later broken, just ask the Polish.

0:10 "Damn time travelers. That's the third one this week."

But WWII did bring positive change, that it weakened the other colonial powers that contributed to the postwar decolonization.

Ngl it's super hilarious how good times are happening and Stalin is always looking pissed off anyway

KZfaq made him sensor someone being shot at the back of the head but not people being gased lol

That entirely depends on strategic choices. An orderly retreat from the east to the borders of Romania and up towards the baltic sea, orderly retreat from N A and a talk with Vichy France about an orderly handover of French territory to the Vichy government. Surely when representative elections are held then the western allies must accept talks, the details of who owes whom X amount of millions will be left to negotiations.

So basically all or nothing