What if Hitler had never arisen? We assume there would have been peace in Europe, but we forget that even then there were many Communist agitators in Germany and elsewhere, and that National Socialism was created in no small measure to oppose International Socialism. Me and mine versus none and done. A gut sense of my people versus the world; opposed by a despair underlying an intellectual commitment to personlessness and global violence.
Would Europe have been conquered by this soulless doctrine? It made major inroads despite the evils it enabled and defended.