Redbeard
Banned
I will try to make a series of alternate histories that all have their offspring in one PoD:
The long knife breaks before sunset – i.e. Röhm and his 4,5 million men SA are one step ahead of Hitler and on say 7th of May 1934 (Hitler’s OTL coup against Röhm was in June) core units of the SA in a well co-ordinated action falls over the (still tiny) SS, Hitler loyal Nazis (Himmler and Göring first of all) and the Reichswehr. Hitler is instantly killed, but to the public Röhm says that he “has been forced to intervene against traitors trying to overthrow our beloved Führer and weaken the nazi ideologi. Unfortunately the Führer fell in the battle, but just before dying in my arms he urged me to take over and purify the nazi movement. I have taken that burden on my shoulders!â€
The first ATL goes from 1934-36, and I would especially like some opinion on whether Röhm and the SA actually can succeed in couping Hitler. Will there follow a civil war and are any foreign powers likely to intervene?
For background I can inform that Röhm was considdered the militant wing of the Nazi movement (!), and that the Reichswehr increasingly was worried about being absorbed into a fully armed SA and in OTL 1934 rumors started spreading in the circles around Hitler about Röhm planning a coup. As an illustration of how the outside world saw Hitlers OTL coup in June is the quote from Daily Mail on 2nd of July 1934:
“Herr Adolf Hitler, the German Chancellor, has saved his country. Swiftly and with exorable severity, he has delivered Germany from men who had become a danger to the unity of the German people and to the order of the state. With lightening rapidity he has caused them to be removed from high office, to be arrested, and put to death.
The names of the men who have been shot by his orders are already known. Hitler's love of Germany has triumphed over private friendships and fidelity to comrades who had stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the fight for Germany's future.“
I the next ATL I will try to go on from 1936 based on your inputs on the 1934-36 TL.
Regards
Steffen Redbeard
The long knife breaks before sunset – i.e. Röhm and his 4,5 million men SA are one step ahead of Hitler and on say 7th of May 1934 (Hitler’s OTL coup against Röhm was in June) core units of the SA in a well co-ordinated action falls over the (still tiny) SS, Hitler loyal Nazis (Himmler and Göring first of all) and the Reichswehr. Hitler is instantly killed, but to the public Röhm says that he “has been forced to intervene against traitors trying to overthrow our beloved Führer and weaken the nazi ideologi. Unfortunately the Führer fell in the battle, but just before dying in my arms he urged me to take over and purify the nazi movement. I have taken that burden on my shoulders!â€
The first ATL goes from 1934-36, and I would especially like some opinion on whether Röhm and the SA actually can succeed in couping Hitler. Will there follow a civil war and are any foreign powers likely to intervene?
For background I can inform that Röhm was considdered the militant wing of the Nazi movement (!), and that the Reichswehr increasingly was worried about being absorbed into a fully armed SA and in OTL 1934 rumors started spreading in the circles around Hitler about Röhm planning a coup. As an illustration of how the outside world saw Hitlers OTL coup in June is the quote from Daily Mail on 2nd of July 1934:
“Herr Adolf Hitler, the German Chancellor, has saved his country. Swiftly and with exorable severity, he has delivered Germany from men who had become a danger to the unity of the German people and to the order of the state. With lightening rapidity he has caused them to be removed from high office, to be arrested, and put to death.
The names of the men who have been shot by his orders are already known. Hitler's love of Germany has triumphed over private friendships and fidelity to comrades who had stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the fight for Germany's future.“
I the next ATL I will try to go on from 1936 based on your inputs on the 1934-36 TL.
Regards
Steffen Redbeard