No Hitler

[Michael Z]

Let's assume Adolf Hitler is never annointed Chancellor of Germany. A coalition government between SPD and Zentrum and numerous other smaller parties (perhaps Freiland-Freigeld-Freitwirtschaft or the Bavarian Farmers' Union) manages to run the German republic until the mid-1930s or beyond. The economy recovers. Both the NSDAP and the KPD disappear in the electoral wilderness, ensuring that Germany does not succumb to extremism (whether from the right or the left).

So, no Hitler, no Nuremberg Laws, no WW2, no Holocaust, no Hiroshima/Nagasaki, no Cold War. Or is it? What would the world look like had Hitler never been German Chancellor and the NSDAP never gained power in the Reichstag? How different would things be?

[Michael Z]

So either way, things would have been seriously messed up. Now there's a depressing thought.