Post by The Old ManPost by jerry krausPost by WolfBearIf Adolf Hitler would have gotten killed in 1923, what would the fate of the Nazi Party have been?
Would it have broken up into two or more small factions? Would it have remained united? Who would have emerged as the leader(s) of the Nazi Party or its various factions (if the Nazi Party would have broken up in this TL)? Also, would the Nazi Party or any of its factions have been able to become a potent political force in Germany during the Great Depression in this TL?
Any thoughts on all of this?
The Nazis would have been similar to Mussolini's fascists, absent Hitler. The Germans wanted a right-leaning autocracy, that's what they were used to. They really didn't particularly care for the liberal Weimar Republic, they weren't Frenchmen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Could_Work_Miracles
A Mussolini like fascist dictatorship would likely have swept Germany, in any case. And, we might not have had any second world war, at all, without Hitler's delusions. And, no rampant antisemitism.
You obviously didn't know anyone who lived in Germany during those years.
Sure I do, John, or, I have, at times, anyway.
I had both family and friends from "over there" who told me that most of the people absolutely worshiped him.
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If that's the case, then, how come Hitler never actually managed to get a majority of seats in the Reichstag? He never did. In his best showing, in the 1933 election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933
Hitler still only got a third of the vote. And, that's despite the obvious incompetence and corruption of his opponents, and the dismal state of the German economy! The German people KNEW Hitler was nuts!
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And those that didn't generally kept their mouths shut while looking for a way to get out of town.
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Now we're getting somewhere! Once Hitler seized total power, of course, and controlled the media and the police, of course everyone worshiped him, they had no choice in the matter! Same with Stalin, Mussolini, Franco etc.
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It was those latter folks that you might be referring to, but they were a minority during the 1930s.
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NO! They were the majority, until Hitler seized power. Germans just don't want to admit that they always knew what a nut Hitler was! They want to scapegoat Hitler, so they won't feel responsible for subsequent events, my friend!
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And until the Nazis stirred it up there wasn't near as much antisemitism in Germany as there was in some of the other European countries during the teens and twenties.
True. Hitler was a very skillful psychological manipulator.
Post by The Old ManRegards,
John Braungart