The Iron Eagle: An Adolf Hitler Presidency

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Hitler would probably be a Democrat in these circumstances. In terms of economics, both parties were pretty similar, and Hitler would work well in either. In terms of foreign policy, it can be argued that Hitler would be an imperialist, which would fit with Republicans like Theodore Roosevelt, but Roosevelt's imperialism was more of a "white man's burden" type, whereas Hitler would not be big on the idea of burdening the white man, and would have racial views more in line with the Democrats at the time. Also, with the Republicans taking office after WWI, they would likely be the elite group he lashes out against, and his calls for change from that establishment would put him with the Democrats. I also kind of feel like he would be a Huey Long figure, but obviously more racist.

As for governor vs congress, that's a tough call. I feel like Hitler would be more interested in working on the national and international level and want to get to Washington so he could fight the establishment, putting him in Congress. However, I can also see him as potentially being a racist Huey Long, which would make him a governor.
 
Hitler would probably be a Democrat in these circumstances. In terms of economics, both parties were pretty similar, and Hitler would work well in either. In terms of foreign policy, it can be argued that Hitler would be an imperialist, which would fit with Republicans like Theodore Roosevelt, but Roosevelt's imperialism was more of a "white man's burden" type, whereas Hitler would not be big on the idea of burdening the white man, and would have racial views more in line with the Democrats at the time. Also, with the Republicans taking office after WWI, they would likely be the elite group he lashes out against, and his calls for change from that establishment would put him with the Democrats. I also kind of feel like he would be a Huey Long figure, but obviously more racist.

As for governor vs congress, that's a tough call. I feel like Hitler would be more interested in working on the national and international level and want to get to Washington so he could fight the establishment, putting him in Congress. However, I can also see him as potentially being a racist Huey Long, which would make him a governor.

Very interesting and thoughtful analysis.
 
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(Coast of Panama, 1923.)



"The 1920's were the beginning of Hitler's political career. Revisionary consensus emphasizes the earlier decades in the formation of his political career, but now we enter the time when all thorough historical examinations of Hitler observe." - Eric Foner.


"I cannot think of a figure who during the 1920's so dramatically rose in the pole of national politics as did Adolph Hitler himself." - David McCullough.
 
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End of An Era: The United States
Reeling from the damages of an unwanted war, United States veterans returned to a home full of distraught. Farmers, who had invested heavily into their lands for the war effort, upon the rapid economic contraction following the war's end, had lost their savings and more. Industrial workers in urban centers, primarily of immigrant descent, felt their pockets pinched by growing economic competition with African American workers escaping the lynching and brutalization's of Jim Crow Dixie. And veterans themselves felt resentful in their economic marginalization occurring from a failed demobilization plan. One of these veterans from across the shore was Adolph Hitler.

Resuming work with the New York Times, Hitler travelled across the country, finding source material for his editorials on the "state of the nation" as he quipped. He found it in the Windy City, just outside the porch of a small city house of a friend of his (through his veteran days).

The end of the 1910's was not a pleasant time for African Americans. The Birth of a Nation had grown into a national hit, portraying African Americans as "savage animals" and "serial rapists", feeding off of the myth of African-American male's lack of control and lustful violent desires. In May of 1919, Madame C. J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire (of any race) died of natural causes at the age of fifty-one. Her demise meant the departure of a great community leader, both in African-American and woman’s causes. Along with pitiful economic conditions and a growing anger amongst their new neighbors northern whites, the black community had much to fear for.

Unfortunately, those fears found their realizations in July of 1919 in Chicago. Rising racial animosity and growing jobs insecurity exploded into five days of violence, in which 38 deaths occurred. The riot shocked the nation, causing many in the political sphere to reflect on how to improve race relations in Chicago and the country, including Illinois Governor Frank Lowden, who received praise for the reorganization of the city's government following the riots. However, not everyone was filled with feelings of hope for reconciliation and improved race relations.

"The events in Chicago have proven that the races cannot comingle in peace. A nation, victorious in war, has greeted the following year with savage chaos and has demonstrated the folly of Marxism throughout." Hitler wrote many more damning pieces about the riot and race relations in general.

"Hitler often connected racial tension with "Marxist meddling", indicative of a time when Bolshevik radicalism had toppled the Czar and Europe witnessed during the same year as the Chicago riot numerous Communist uprisings. The Red Scare was vibrant even at that time, and Hitler knew how to fan those flames; an ability that took him far." - The Great Men of American History, by Eric Foner, American Historian and author.


"It was the Chicago riots that convinced Hitler to enter the political arena as an avowed white supremacist. Beforehand, he merely maintained these views in intellectual circles and in writings for purposes of information. Never before did he intend to personally carry these ideas across to Washington." - Adolph Hitler: An Impactful Legacy, by David McCullough, American Historian and author.


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(A soldier with five policemen in the Douglas neighborhood during the Chicago riots, 1919.)


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(Madame C. J. Walker, an African-American entrepreneur famed for her success in producing beauty products primarily for African American women. Her legacy was frequently used by Libertarian Positivism and in general anti-Hitlerian ideologies as proof of Hitlerism's unsound positions on race.)
 
Of Dilemna and Democracy
Adolph was always intrigued by politics. This was of no surprise, for America's democratic tradition comprised a core aspect of it's history and would continue to do so. It was under no less President Woodrow Wilson in which he reached new heights; politics had blessed him.

However now, Hitler had grown up. One of his mentors was dead, the second dying, and the third could not carry him upwards by himself. The only way for Hitler to truly stand out for himself in the long run was through politicking. But through which party?

The Republican Party made much sense. Hitler was after all born into a German-speaking family from Texas Hill country, a Republican staple since the days the Deutsch of Dixie opposed secession and proudly supported the Union cause. And the Republicans were reasserting themselves as the nation's dominant party in the wake of increasing isolationism as a backlash towards Wilson's betrayal of his core reelection promise. As an isolationist himself, Hitler gravitated to such language espoused by Republican leaders coast to coast.

However, the Democratic Party also appealed to Hitler. He may have been born in a Republican region of Texas, but his state was part of the Democratic bastion of the Solid South. Hitler knew that the best way for him to rise in national politics was to first conquer local politics, as done by the greats, suck as Jefferson in Virginia, Lincoln in Illinois, Cleveland in New York and McKinley in Ohio. Texas would elect a yellow dog over a Republican, and Hitler never wanted to be a Canine's lesser.

It was also the party of Wilson, his third mentor. While his first two were Yankee Republicans (and that made staying a Republican greatly appeal to him), perhaps no mentor did more for him in the political realm than Wilson did. Also, while he disagreed with his mentor on international affairs, he very much agreed with the Virginian born Commander in Chief on issues regarding, perhaps to the right of him. He saw the Democratic party as "the greatest champion of the white race" and feared that "one day the Radical Republicans will come back to power with the help of the Negro and the Scalawag" and would "destroy the honorable treaty of '77 that has done much to preserve the integrity and soul of the American nation".

"Hitler was not much into the Confederacy. He was glad that Lincoln and the Union won, cherishing "the sanctity of the Union", however he believed and advocated that America was a "white man's country", and that Reconstruction was "a dangerous and radical experiment designed to destroy the social fabric of the nation". He was a man who saw the Union's victory in the Civil War as the proper result, and found the Compromise of 1877 as "the fitting ending". His white nationalism transcended regionalism; it was obsessed with racial purity throughout." - The Great Men of American History, by Eric Foner, American Historian and author.


While the decision was tough, one final thing turned Hitler forever into the direction of Jacksonian Democracy. William Jennings Bryan, President Wilson's first Secretary of State (and someone who Hitler had the privilege of spending an evening dinner with, along with President Wilson) was a committed populist and also opposed the war. In his journal in 1920, Hitler stated that "the Democratic party is not the party of internationalist intellectuals, and it will learn this after a few successive defeats." And thus, after much deliberation, Hitler joined the party of Jefferson, of Polk, of Jackson. Hitler was now a Democrat.


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(Bryan, along with other populist mass leaders such as Roosevelt and Jackson, greatly appealed to Hitler. It was his legacy that finally convinced Hitler to join the party of Jackson and Buren.)
 
Governor or Lieutenant Governor. Hitler wants to make change quickly, that will be easier first on a state level. He wants/needs a new Munich.
 
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