First of all, a disclaimer: While I have some narrative skills, sadly my focus on history is the twenty century brazilian history, and so I do not know enought of weimar and early third reich politics of Germany to pull off this sceario. I would love to see it realized and I would cooperate with anyone interested on writting it.
For years I have been wondering about a late restored 2nd reich scenario, not on the Kapp Putsch, but over ten years later, the idea would start with Hitler and his minions being shot to death on the beer hall putsch, and so there is no Mein Kampf and the main right wing party continues being the National Conservative DNVP.
A video with some of the context of the DNVP, as you can see they still held nationalist rallies, with the presence of some members of the royal family.
After the 1929 crash the DNVP would accept to make a coalition with the national labourists of Strasser blackfront (again, I'm not a expert of the politics of those small groups, but Strasser was socially conservative and economically left winger), making him vice chancellor and pushing some of his most labourist reforms to appease the people. Those reforms would increase the DNVP support amoung the people to the point that they would lift Kaiser Wilhelm II ban, allowing him to return to Germany and creating a wave of imperial nostalgia. The Rheinland still would be reocuppied, maybe not in '36, but in '37 or '38, and not under a totalitarian government and this might have no entente reaction as it did OTL, and by the very late 1930s there could be a restoration of the 2nd Reich under Wilhelm III
What do you think? It is plausible?
There is something I want to add, while my knowledge of 1930s germany is meagre, I did some research on the DNVP and found some interesting things, the DNVP is usually seem on the forum as a average conservative party, but in reality it was almost a stereotypical representation of prussianism, the party had it's Youth, called Bismarckjugend:
The members used a armband, with "DNVP" written on it, with the colours of the imperial flag:
And DNVP, and Hindenburg were openly anti republicans, like you can see in this 1924 propaganda (the poster is too big so I used it as a quote)
In Austria even the social democrats wanted to unite with Germany, maybe this leads to a saner anschluss that is more accepted by the west, since they are now a multi party authoritarian empire, and not a totalitarian one party state.
For years I have been wondering about a late restored 2nd reich scenario, not on the Kapp Putsch, but over ten years later, the idea would start with Hitler and his minions being shot to death on the beer hall putsch, and so there is no Mein Kampf and the main right wing party continues being the National Conservative DNVP.
After the 1929 crash the DNVP would accept to make a coalition with the national labourists of Strasser blackfront (again, I'm not a expert of the politics of those small groups, but Strasser was socially conservative and economically left winger), making him vice chancellor and pushing some of his most labourist reforms to appease the people. Those reforms would increase the DNVP support amoung the people to the point that they would lift Kaiser Wilhelm II ban, allowing him to return to Germany and creating a wave of imperial nostalgia. The Rheinland still would be reocuppied, maybe not in '36, but in '37 or '38, and not under a totalitarian government and this might have no entente reaction as it did OTL, and by the very late 1930s there could be a restoration of the 2nd Reich under Wilhelm III
What do you think? It is plausible?
There is something I want to add, while my knowledge of 1930s germany is meagre, I did some research on the DNVP and found some interesting things, the DNVP is usually seem on the forum as a average conservative party, but in reality it was almost a stereotypical representation of prussianism, the party had it's Youth, called Bismarckjugend:
The members used a armband, with "DNVP" written on it, with the colours of the imperial flag:
And DNVP, and Hindenburg were openly anti republicans, like you can see in this 1924 propaganda (the poster is too big so I used it as a quote)
In Austria even the social democrats wanted to unite with Germany, maybe this leads to a saner anschluss that is more accepted by the west, since they are now a multi party authoritarian empire, and not a totalitarian one party state.
