Was Hitler objectively bad?

[Zen Badger]

But what if he got assassinated and one of his employees (probably Goering, Bormann, or Himmler, especially Bormann) ended up gaining power before the war was finished? That was the question I was thinking. I should have put even more emphasis on the comparable evil and less Terl-like behavior of Hitler's cronies. I should probably have made clearer that I meant "what if Hitler had been assassinated and we hadn't won the war yet?"

For certain that once the US and Russia were involved Germany was never going to win.

But even if Hitler had been assassinated, if Himmler et al had taken over the very nature of the Nazi party would not have allowed them to relinquish direction of the war.

Look at the people you're talking about, Goering was a dilettante who spent most of his time at Karinhall playing with his toy trains, Himmler when he did try to play at soldier(when he was appointed commander of army group Vistula in "45) proved to be a complete incompetent and Bormann preferred to stay behind the throne.

But even if if the Army had have been allowed to run the war if would not have mattered, the Second world war was a war of production and Germany was never going to beat America or Russia in that game.