>>9773
>how do you think Germany could have hit Churchill's cabinet?
So, first off, Hitler should have executed Wilhelm Canaris, who was the chief of German foreign intelligence and working to overthrow Hitler. I think he was involved in one of the plots to kill him.
I admit secondly that I'm not as deeply familiar with the inner workings of the Churchill regime as the Germans were in 1940 (or at least, should have been)
However, if I were chief of the Abwehr, I would have spent a considerable deal of effort tracking the locations of key figures in his government.
Now, assassinating them would be ideal but two factors make it difficult. The first is that Hitler was a real old school, chivalrous fellow and you just know that if you proposed assassinating Churchill, Hitler would come up with reasons not to. But if he could be reasoned with, I'm sure many undercover assassinations could have been put together to make it look like an accident. Just like the assassination of Patton, maybe Churchill's allies could be run over by cars or poisoned or even shot down as they traveled around.
Basically, Germany should have invested way more into intelligence and counter intelligence than they did.
As you suggest, Hitler should have put WAY more into funding Mosely and also into funding counter-communist forces in the USSR, before and after 1941.
Lastly, if I were Hitler, or at least had his ear, I'd urge him to do what the Allies did to Napoleon: Don't declare war on France or the UK or the USSR. Declare war on the governments and go out of your way to be seen as a liberator.
With France, it doesn't matter overly much but, if I may Ryan Faulk this and change one aspect of Hitler's character but leave everything else intact, here is how I would have conducted the war.
>1939, issue orders to Danzig NSDAP to stage massive protest for referendum on joining Germany (I absolutely HATE how Hitler didn't do this IRL. It would have been extremely easy to do as support for the NSDAP in Danzig was at 90%)
>Sept. 1939, Invade Poland.
It is possible that Hitler could have aligned with the National Radical Camp. Not sure what concessions he would need to make but I'm presuming that Hitler absolutely would need to annex former Imperial German borders, so the NRC might have been intransigent. If so, we would make no change in the timeline because, (I presume) Hitler would go through with the Ribbentrop pact and for a variety of geopolitical reasons, Poland would need to be occupied rather than liberated.