AHC: West Germany becomes a dictatorship

How can West Germany, with a POD of May 9, 1945 at the earliest, become any sort of dictatorship within the Western sphere? Communist dictatorships do not count in this scenario. South Korea was a dictatorship for a long time, as was South Vietnam, so I thought about how West Germany could be a dictatorship and not a democracy?

It can be a military dictatorship, a civilian "one-party" or dominant party dictatorship, a fascist (e.g. Franco-like) dictatorship, a theocracy, or just a general Caudillo-type dictatorship like they were popular in Latin America.
 
Overlord fails some reason. Even without second front, Soviets capure Berlin with enormous casulties, but with no power for further progress. During battle, Hitler and some top nazis get killed. Everything east of Berlin is still nazi Germany ruled by Wehmacht junta...
 
There was an attempted coup that was headed off by the British arresting a lot of politicians in the early 1950s, one of whom had been high up the Goebbels Ministry. I forget much of the detail and google is about as much use as a chocolate cock.
 
The german people after 1945 were still fundamentally the same that were fine with Hitler 10 years earlier. have the economy recover more slowly,have all the little moments of genuince democrats working tirelessy be less common,the vast amounts of old Nazi personel everywhere more active and germany could easily be a much,much less democratic state. The nation of lovely democrats immidiatly seeing the light after being liberated from nazi yoke is a tired (and self-congratulory) myth.

heck,significant parts of the CDU in the 50s at the very least probably wouldn't be considered democratic nowadays,and those guys weren't the worst by a long shot.
 
One option I could kinda see would be to have the SPD under Kurt Schumacher win the 1949 federal election (it was fairly close IOTL, and the Union had the advantage of a lot of small right-wing parties to form a coalition with) and to form a left-wing coalition government with the then-not-banned Communists. Schumacher, as part of the more left-wing faction within the SPD, could have easily been seen as someone who could bring West Germany into the Soviet sphere of influence (IOTL he called Adenauer's CDU agents of capitalism and foreign powers), so the US could topple him, similarly to how the US manipulated election results in Italy IOTL to prevent Communists winning elections.

Of course the Western Allies would have to do this directly, since Germany back then didn't have a military, and that would probably not look too good to the world at large, but that's one of the very few ways I could see it.
 
There was an attempted coup that was headed off by the British arresting a lot of politicians in the early 1950s, one of whom had been high up the Goebbels Ministry. I forget much of the detail and google is about as much use as a chocolate cock.

This strikes me as extremely implausible. How can you even attempt a coup with the country under foreign occupation and the Bundeswehr not even formed yet? Maybe you are confusing it with something else like the rise and dissolution of the Socialist Reich Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Reich_Party but AFAIK it never attempted a coup.
 
The german people after 1945 were still fundamentally the same that were fine with Hitler 10 years earlier. have the economy recover more slowly,have all the little moments of genuince democrats working tirelessy be less common,the vast amounts of old Nazi personel everywhere more active and germany could easily be a much,much less democratic state. The nation of lovely democrats immidiatly seeing the light after being liberated from nazi yoke is a tired (and self-congratulory) myth.

heck,significant parts of the CDU in the 50s at the very least probably wouldn't be considered democratic nowadays,and those guys weren't the worst by a long shot.


That was 1973.

I want to throw the name Franz Josef Strauß into the discussion.
 
This would require a POD prior to May 9, 1945.

Nah.

Here are my PODs:


-The Neumann circle manages to take over the FDP

-The left wing of the SPD prevails and they align them selfs more with the KPD and less with the liberal and capitalist parties.

-The KPD in east Germany is far more aggressive and tries to undermine the power of the western allies in their zones.

-Strauß succeeds during the Spiegel affair and gets some far right judge to convict Augstein of treason

-The BGS gets enlarged way earlier and is twice it’s OTL size in 1956. In OTL in recruited quite some questionable ex Wehrmacht and SS personal.

- The SED starts retaliation attacks in response to the KgU.

-The government introduces the emergency laws far earlier although in a far rougher sketch.

-The US, France and Britain are continuesly more afraid of a socialist takeover and start funding various secret organizations which are to act in case of an invasion or an insurrection.

-After the fall of Erhard the SPD campaigns on a much more revolutionary program, but still fails to get a majority. The far more right wing CDU/CSU and FDP still can’t agree to form a government. After much talking new elections are scheduled. The SED meanwhile starts funding revolutionary elements in the SPD.


-During a workers protest a policeman who is a Stasi agent shoots some JuSo representative in order to provoke revolution.

Protests quickly turn violent with protestors overpowering local police units in many urban area of the Ruhr and Hamburg. Out of fear of a revolution the CIA tells one of its paramilitary groups in NRW to attack identified local radicals and communist sympathizers.

Faced with Weimar conditions in some parts of the country and because of fear of a socialist takeover, the CDU/CSU, the FDP and some anti-communist members of the SPD vote to enact the Notstandsgesetze.

Brandt having lost control over his party resigns. The SPD disintegrates into three parties. The SED-West which is a radical revolutionary DDR funded party. The SVD which is the right wing of the SPD who supports the CDU/CSU and FDP actions. And lastly the SLD which is a shell of the old SPD.

The new Kiesinger junta quickly uses the emergency laws to crush all dissent in the streets by deploying the Bundeswehr and giving the BGS generals a free hand to finally put their wartime experiences in hunting partisans to use.

The DDR threatens military intervention but is stopped during the last minute by the Soviets and the threat of American retaliation.

After the majority of revolutionary elements is crushed Kiesinger establishes a System similarl to that of the interwar dictatorship in Austria.
 
Is Quite difficult to realizes

See the Allies made after WW2 every precautionary measure to prevent west Germany become a dictatorship again.
Next a Democratic constitution and Laws, they make sure it will not happen
and there were several Attempts by Extremist and Nazi to gain Power
like the Attempt of Hostile take over of FDP (Liberal party) by high Rank Nazis ("Naumann-Kreis" ) in 1953
the "Naumann-Kreis" of Werner Naumann (worked for Gobbels) wanted to infiltrate Democratic parties
but his attempt was stop by British military and German authority arrested Werner Naumann.

source:
https://www.zeit.de/hamburg/2016-11/karl-kaufmann-hamburg-nsdap-gauleiter-drittes-reich/seite-3
 
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