Not exactly, the face of Europe by the time of the Nazis' had completly altered and for that matter Germany was stronger in the lead up to WWI than at the time of Bismark. Lets just think about Hitler a different way, what if he a been killed before the capture of Bohemia and Moravia and obviously the invasion of Poland. He was a former WWI officer who had been indured in the first world war and had been given the Iron Cross. He wasn't just some raving loony, he actually was someone. He had associated himself with Great German Generals like Hindenburg. He attempted a revolution in Munich in order to overhthrow a incompetant goverment and would fail. He went away came up with his plan and once ALL of the western world had gone bankrupt from the stockmarket crash he had his oppertunity to seize power. He used peoples hatred of the French over the quite obviously one sided terms of the treaty and did exactly as he promised. He used groups of people that people resented for various reasons such as Jews in order to take peoples focus off each other. Once in full control he took advantage of some very good circumstances and took back the Rhineland for Germany. Ignoring the reparations he rebuilt the economy. He ordered the construction of the Autoban, which is still there today in order to get people into some form of work and then ordered the creation of something else we still all use, the Volkswagen. He made the country better and made Germany probably the best country to live in during the lead up to the war. In fact during the war it was not until well into the war that the force of the war was even that felt. He turned a broken state into the powerhouse of Europe and it was. Don't give me this Germany was just as strong in Bismarks time as now. You know what, lets have a showdown, my 1939 Germany will kick your 1871 Germanys ass, in fact it'll hit your best for six and can go off and have a pie whilst waiting for it to come back, oh... wait, its escaped earths gravitational pull. But seriously if Hitler had died or stepped down before the war he would be in this game as one of the Greatest leaders of our time. Yes, he broke international aggreements but, who cares, the treaty of Versailles was seen as unfair in Britain and the USA, it was the only reason appeasement got off the ground. Now c'mon biatch I take down your trench warfare with my Blitzkrieg.
