Inglourious Basterds: 10 Things That Would Have Happened Afterwards

9. Heinrich Himmler Assumes Power As Chancellor Of Germany (But Not For Long)

Hitler, Goering and Bormann: with these ghastly characters dead and gone, there's only one man left to pick up the pieces - curiously absent from the film. At the news of so many high-ranking Nazi deaths, huge shockwaves would have been sent through Germany; Heinrich Himmler (who did not attend the premiere of Nation's Pride as depicted in the film for unexplained reasons), the most prominent member of the High Command, would no doubt find himself promoted to the status of Supreme Chancellor. Tasked with the monumental objective of keeping Germany and its people together, despite the the fact that the country was falling apart from every angle, he'd then be faced with a somewhat impossible mission. In a lot of ways, though, Himmler was a lot worse than Hitler and would have probably steered the war onwards with more aggression. In 1944, Himmler was considered rather unpopular amongst German citizens; history even suggests that, had he found himself promoted to the status of Chancellor upon Hitler's death (a more than likely event given his status and position as General Plenipotentiary for the Third Reich, granting him "absolute power"), the Weimar Generals would have plotted to assassinate him in order to negotiate a surrender with the Americans. Even with a new German Chancellor in power, then, Operation Kino would have - for all intents and purposes - ended the war soon enough... Himmler or no Himmler.