AHC: Nazis overthrown by mass uprising?

"You may hand us over to the executioner, but in three months' time our disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets!"

- Erwin von Witzleben, a member of the 20 July Plot, at his trial in 1944.


Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a scenario with a POD no earlier than Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 and no later than the dissolution of the Nazi Government on 23 May 1945 whereby the Nazi government is overthrown by a mass popular uprising. A coup or assassination is not allowed if it does not involve huge public support. The government (not necessarily led by Hitler) MUST be overthrown in the style of a mass revolution.

Ready? Go!!!

Edit: Civil War is acceptable.
 
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Well, there is the always classic Scooby-Doo ending, where President Hindenburg pulls off Hitler's mask, in the Reich-stag to reveal that he is in fact the zombie Clemenceau. That'd do it. No one wants the dead French premier who beat the Germans and foisted Versailles upon the nation, to be chancellor, regardless.
 
Hmm. This is interesting, but I don't know how this could be pulled off with Hitler in charge.

Perhaps there could be a German Civil War if Germany is forced to back down due to Czechoslovakia, making the Nazis look like pansies, and Hitler is removed violently by the public.
 
Hmm. This is interesting, but I don't know how this could be pulled off with Hitler in charge.

Perhaps there could be a German Civil War if Germany is forced to back down due to Czechoslovakia, making the Nazis look like pansies, and Hitler is removed violently by the public.

A circle of generals planned to putsch in case of war in 1938. They definatly wouldn´t have the support of the people, though. The whole society was indoctrinated and highly organized by the NSDAP. They had about 100 % support among the German population and they fully supported everything the Nazis wanted . Hitler originally geraed that there could be mass-strikes anytime (although he disbanded the unions in 1933 by) and had a anti strike brigade in case of strikes. But that never happened.
Maybe catholic resistance, in case of a crackdown by more radical anti-clerical elements of NSDAP ? But would not have happen d either.
 
You've basically got to avoid having the Nazis arrest anyone with the motivation and organisation to lead an uprising (communists, radical left etc) and then have the Nazis fuck up the economy and fuck up handling some social issue leading to mass protest aimed at democratic and economic reform which the radicals divert towards armed resistance. The partisan movement in Italy got pretty strong in places but in Germany the main instigators of rebellion were all murdered, exiled or in prison.
 
A failed KNight of the Long Knives?

Either they get too violent (Dead children, Someone beloved by the people eliminated) and the nation turns on them

or maybe the the SA escapes the trap and rouses the nation (at least their followers and the most anti-Hitler)

Maybe a little bit of both

How long does Rohm rule? Longer than Jane Grey?
 
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