The Death of Göring and the Victory of the Luftwaffe

[Mr.Bluenote]

After our discussions in the Could Germanny Win WW2 and Top Nazis Killed threads, I thought a bit further on my ideas for a PoD involving Der Dickes premature (in some ways ) death!

Hermann Göring played an essential role in bringing Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP to power. Ironically he is also one of two people, Hitler being the other, who indirectly brought about the downfall of the Nazi regime as he mismanaged Lufwaffe, stole everything that wasn’t bolted down, played destructive political games, did drugs and what not….

Now, what would happen if we remove Göring in late 1935, say, december 20th?! It’s late enough to ensure that Hitler is in power and has a relative stable hold on Germany and the Wehrmacht, but not to late for a lot of things to change! Who would lead the Luftwaffe? Who would be Reichs Luftminister? I btw can’t see the two positions going to the same man again. Who would be President of the Richstag? Ministerpresident of Prussia? Take charge of the Four Year plan? What would happen to the Gestapo? Would they still end up as part of the SS with nearly no restrictions on their use of power?

My view is, that politically and militarily history would more or less run its course up to Czechosloawakia in the grander scheme of things. If Hitler succeeds with his Czechoslawakian gamble, which he might be able to pull it off as OTL, I think, he would decide that he needed to replace some Generals - them not being bloodthirsty enough -, not earlier as in ATL. The Generals might actually unintendedly secure Hitler between Görinsg death and Czechoslowakia as they generally were notoriously conservative and loyal!

Any other comment? I have most of a TL fleshed out, but would like some comments first!

Best regards and all!

- Mr.Bluenote.