AHC Fascist Hitler

I came with this Hitler who scenario (this is not a notzis cliché), the PoD is that Hitler doesn't get knocked out by that gas attack in late WWI

Basically in this scenario Hitler turns into a italian kind fascist, adopting the 25 points of fascism and adding some of his own (he still is a anti semite), he also wants to expand germany (but not on Generalplan ost levels), and he is more open to add reactionary elements to his government, like the members of the DNVP. The gets totalitarian as otl like italy, but not on the levels of the OTL third Reich
 
The problem is that Hitler did not have a plan since 1918 to build up exactly the 3rd Reich as it became. Even the shitty booklet he wrote while sitting off his slap-on-the-wrist prison term after Beer Hall Putsch was more a sort of "what would I ask an ASB for". Once he got into power, he managed to set his underlings against each other so that everyone came up with a more radical suggestion that anyone else to get Hitler's ear, and then set about to realize the radical ideas to not lose it (because the way to increase personal power and standing went solely through attracting Hitler's personal attention). In my opinion this aspect of Hitler's management style, rather than some previously present inherent evilness, was the main contributor to the worst atrocities and horrors that the Nazis visited on Europe. Not having been gassed would not change his preferred way of managing people by stirring up enmities and rivalries, and as the result an Italian-style Fascist Hitler would have not changed the results very much - maybe instead of building death camps for Jews, Roma, Sinti and homosexuals, he would simply persecute and oppress these along the lines of Nuremberg Laws and build death camps for Slavs or perceived communist sympathizers (i.e. every single Soviet citizen except a few useful ones). The idea of "Lebensraum im Osten" has been hanging around the German public discourse since 1816 at least, though hardly anyone meant it in a genocidal way at that time - rather in the sense of buying land or of bullying Russia to open the area to mass settlement.
 
I think it is a good POD based on whether or not the List regiment factored into turning Hitler into who he became, and whether or not someone else taking his place in the List regiment might have followed in Hitler's footsteps instead, but the 25-point Program of the NSDAP calls for lebensraum... and the war with the USSR which is not possible to win I think unless this Hitler is willing to ignore that particular detail.
 
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