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I doubt his early demise would have made the slightest difference. The Ural/Amerika/Viermotor issue is ahistorical. Invaders don’t do area bombing of the assets they covet.

From 30/1/1933 the Nazi Party was in the position to assign resources to implement their objectives. Those included: restoring the Volk to their “rightful” status of, at least, equality with those that had imposed the “Unequal Treaties”; and securing food, oil and material denied by the unconvertibility of their currency (caused by a “Jewish bankers’ ramp”). So: respect/co-existence to the West, Drang nach Osten.

A re-run of 1917-March,1918 would do fine: Air as artillery and scout, supporting boots-on-ground pushing the Slav beyond the Volga. The Siegfried Line would absorb any feeble attempt by France to fuss; doughboy-mass would not recur; Tommy was contemptible and would settle for a sphere of influence deal – you wet, me dry. That would deliver prosperity-at-home. No need, no casus belli to take on Anglo-Saxon cousins to contest distant markets.

France ordered Consolidated LB-30, UK did the 1936 Heavies, at vast expense and to the detriment of Air Defence and the total neglect of Army Co-operation, because France/UK did not intend to Co-operate with their Armies’ boots trudging across wire and trench, again. This time the Bloody Paralysers would complete the job scarcely begun in Autumn,1918: to sever military supply and to render Society ungovernable, thus to collapse. Weapons of Mass Destruction visited upon the civilian population. That had been the British way of warfare since the first Naval bombardment of a hostile port, and Henry V had starved Harfleur.

The Prussian way was to ride in with sabre flailing. Stuka, under local air superiority. Goering did not invent that.