Would killing Hitler have prevented WWII?

Some of the land was- such as Alsace-Lorraine. But even there, the people were of mixed nationality and language. But Germany also ceded

wiki:
Most of the Prussian provinces of Province of Posen (now Poznan) and of West Prussia which Prussia had annexed in the Partitions of Poland (1772–1795) were ceded to Poland (area 53,800 km², 4,224,000 inhabitants (1931)) without a plebiscite. Most of the Province of Posen had already come under Polish control during the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919.
The Hultschin area of Upper Silesia was transferred to Czechoslovakia (area 316 or 333 km², 49,000 inhabitants) without a plebiscite.
The eastern part of Upper Silesia was assigned to Poland, as in the Upper Silesia plebiscite inhabitants of about 45% of communities voted for this (with general results of 717,122 votes being cast for Germany and 483,514 for Poland).
The area of Eupen-Malmedy was given to Belgium. An opportunity was given to the population to “protest” against the transfer by signing a register, which gathered few signatures. The Vennbahn railway was also transferred to Belgium.
The area of Soldau in East Prussia, an important railway junction on the Warsaw–Danzig route, was transferred to Poland without a plebiscite (area 492 km²).[14]
The northern part of East Prussia known as the “Memelland” or Memel Territory was placed under the control of France and was later annexed by Lithuania.
From the eastern part of West Prussia and the southern part of East Prussia, after the East Prussian plebiscite a small area was ceded to Poland.
The Territory of the Saar Basin was to be under the control of the League of Nations for 15 years, after which a plebiscite between France and Germany, was to decide to which country it would belong. During this time, coal would be sent to France. The region was then called the Saargebiet (German: “Saar Area”) and was formed from southern parts of the German Rhine Province and western parts of the Bavarian Palatinate under the “Saar statute” of the Versailles Treaty of 28. 6. 1919 (Article 45–50).
The strategically important port of Danzig with the delta of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea was separated from Germany as the Freie Stadt Danzig (Free City of Danzig).
Austria was forbidden from merging with Germany.
In article 22, German colonies were divided between Belgium, Great Britain, and certain British Dominions, France, and Japan with the determination not to see any of them returned to Germany — a guarantee secured by Article 119.[15]
In Africa, Britain and France divided German Kamerun (Cameroons) and Togoland. Belgium gained Ruanda-Urundi in northwestern German East Africa, the United Kingdom obtained by far the greater landmass of this colony, thus gaining the “missing link” in the chain of British possessions stretching from South Africa to Egypt (Cape to Cairo), Portugal received the Kionga Triangle, a sliver of German East Africa. German South West Africa was mandated to the Union of South Africa.[16]
In the Pacific, Japan gained Germany’s islands north of the equator (the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, the Palau Islands) and Kiautschou in China. German Samoa was assigned to New Zealand; German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Nauru[17] to Australia as mandatory.[18]

But 1000X?!? I mean the war* did *last longer- nearly six times longer. It did not rage on until the year 2918.

I think life under a Communist Dictator would have been just as bad. At least Franco kept Spain out of WWII and arrianged a orderly tranference of power to a democratic government. Don’t get me wrong, Franco was pretty nasty but the alternatives were no better. Other than a Communist govt the only other likelyhood would have been Spin splitting up, which means it would have been sucked into WWII as a number of feeble tiny mini-states.

The OP forgets about the Brown Shirts or Sturmabteilung lead by Ernst Röhm. He could have been the leader. Or there were many other candidates in the various factions that were even worse than Hitler.

When did I say it wasn’t? I am quite happy to accept that Stalin, Paul Pot and Mao Tse Tung were left wing dictators and that life under them was possibly worse than life under Franco or Mussolini.

But claiming that Hitler, Franco and Mussolini were men of the left is a profound lie which is being used by the far right to weaken democracy.

I concede that point, gladly.

Of course the more Right Wing you get, some aspects of the Far Left slip in. Strange, ain’t it?

I did? I thought I said that if it wasn’t Hitler, it would have been someone else. Oh wait, I did!

You forgot Northern Schleswig. That was ceded back to Denmark.

But how does any of that disprove anything I said? I wrote that Germany was forced to give back the territory it conquered from other countries. All your list does it point out how many countries Germany had taken land from.

The majority of people who lived in the Polish corridor, for example, were not Germans. They were Polish. Why shouldn’t they have been reunited with Poland? Wilson was mentioned above as somebody who could have mitigated the Treaty of Versailles. Here’s one of the issues he stated was a war goal: “An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.” So Germany should have seen that one coming.

They also should have seen they were going to lose Alsace and Lorraine. The return of those provinces had been the centerpiece of all French diplomacy for two generations. It’s not like Germany regarded Alsace and Lorraine as being part of Germany. The two provinces were never legally incorporated into Germany and were officially regarded by the German government as occupied territory under military control.

I think that a lot of the more rational reasons another war was more likely to happen than not also are reasons why Hitler’s rise was a necessary condition for WWII. Militant Germans in general would likely want to possess areas lost in war. Or desire vengeance for a damaged economy. Those sorts of things might lead to a regional war.
Hitler, however, believed (certain) Germans were superior to people of other nations. There was also the belief that Jews and Communists were trying to take over the world. Therefore, he thought it was Germany’s right and duty to conquer the world. Also, it would be easy because a superior race couldn’t be beaten by an inferior one. Basically, a more sane leader wouldn’t have launched the type of war Hitler created because it required one believe in his racial theories.
Or something. I don’t know. Never met the guy.

The Prussian provinces of Province of Posen had been German for about 150 years.

Upper Silesia voted to stay in Germany- 717,122 votes being cast for Germany and 483,514 for Poland. Mostly German.

The Danzig corridor- Mostly German (wiki “Beside the German-speaking majority, whose elites sometimes distinguished their German dialect as Pomerelian,[27] the city was home to a large number of Polish-speaking Poles”, and here’s who owned it over the nearly 100 years before it was taken from Germany:

997-1308: as part of the Kingdom of Poland
1308-1454: as part of the territory of the Teutonic Order
1454-1466: Thirteen Years’ War
1466-1569: as part of the Kingdom of Poland
1569-1793: as part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1793-1805: as part of Prussia
1807-1814: as a free city
1815-1871: as part of Prussia
1871-1920: as part of Imperial Germany

So, it changed hands liked crazy and you can’t call it * “territory it (Germany) conquered from other countries”* as it had been “German” for the previous 120 years and off and on “German”, Polish or Lithuanian since there was a City. You might as well say “territory Poland conquered from Germany” as the other way around. Same as most of the rest there.

I conceded Alsace Lorraine but even there *“These territories had become part of Eastern Francia in 921 during the reign of King Henry I, and later were included in the Holy Roman Empire. Their population spoke Germanic and Romance dialects. Those in Alsace spoke mostly Germanic dialects, in particular Alsatian, an Alemannic German dialect similar to that spoken on the opposite bank of the Rhine, while those in Lorraine were divided roughly equally between those who spoke the Romance Lorrain dialect and those who spoke Franconian German dialects. The area had gradually become part of France between 1552, when Metz was ceded to the Kingdom of France, and 1798, when the Republic of Mulhouse joined the French Republic. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the area was annexed by the newly-created German Empire in 1871 by the Treaty of Frankfurt and became a Reichsland.”
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So, mostly German peoples, and you could say that France conquered it from Germany.

OTOH, note that France grabbed control of the Saar, and that’s pretty much Germany.

The Danzig Corridor? There was no Danzig Corridor. There was a city of Danzig and a Polish corridor. They were two separate entities. The city may have had a German majority but the corridor had a Polish majority. I don’t see how it matters how long Germany had occupied it - the people in it were Polish.

Poland was given control of the Polish corridor. It was not given control of Danzig, which remained a free city.

France included Alsace and Lorraine into the French government. They had representatives in the French Assembly and were considered Frenchmen. As I wrote above, Germany regarded Alsace and Lorraine as occupied territory and treated its residents as foreigners.

Actually, Alsace-Lorraine, while it was administered by the Imperial government, had been annexed, not occupied, it did send delegates to the Reichstag, and its inhabitants were German citizens, per the Treaty of Frankfurt.

Anyways depending on when Hitler gets killed there is probably still a World War II (unless you g

Much of which had been German for centuries. In addition millions of Germans were put under foreign rule.

And after the Napoleonic Wars France got off far easier than this even though it was far more aggressive than the Kaisserreich was in the Great War.

Well depending on when Hitler is assassinated there probably still is a World War II unless the Great Depression doesn’t hit Germany as hard. The war will be less nasty though- no Holocaust and it may involve a German-Soviet alliance of convenience or an anti-Soviet war of a coalition of European powers.

Millions of Germans? Where were they? The entire population of the Polish corridor was about a million people. The entire population of Alsace-Lorraine was less than two million.

As for centuries, the Polish corridor was occupied by Germany (Prussia) in 1772. Northern Schleswig was occupied in 1865. Alsace and Lorraine were occupied in 1870. So it was hardly centuries - there were plenty of people still alive who remembered the latter occupations.