Cellmates: Hitler and Ludendorff

On looking up some facts today I came across a tidbit regarding Erich Ludendorff and the beer hall putsch. Now in OTL he was not convicted for his involvement with it, but what if he had gone to the putsch and was arrested tried and convicted along with hitler. Also what if at the same time Rudolf Hess is killed during the putsch and as a result in stead of Hitler and Hess spending their time together in prison, Ludendorff and Hitler do. As such mein kampf isn't written or is published much later(considerably differently mind you), and hitler may very well have different political views as a result of prolonged time spent with Ludendorff.

I am thinking of writing a TL in which Hitler and Ludendorff become friends in prison with Ludendorff becoming sort of a father figure to the young Bavarian corporal. In this TL Hitler becomes more of a monarchist and rather than try to form a fascist movement in later years he makes a different turn and takes part in a movement to restore the monarchy but with Ludendorff in the leadership role. Now don't expect anything soon, as I get annoyed when I find a TL that I like but the writer of it gets distracted and the TL remains unfinished just as things get interesting, as such I plan on finishing or mostly finishing the first version of the TL before starting to post it.

I was wondering what other peoples thoughts would be on this particular subject.
 
Then I'm sure Ludendorff would either A) somehow beat the ever-living shit out Hitler on an almost daily basis (getting thrown in jail for something he had no part in, yet got grouped with those psychopaths would've pissed me off considerably, can only imagine how much it'd piss off an old-school military officer) or B) deflate Hitler's ego and take the chance to set him straight.
 
Ludendorff was no monarchist; he was a proponent of national mobilisation and total war. In these aspects, there wasn't much difference between him and Hitler.
That he - a Prussian General and former de facto commander of the German Army - would befriend a Bavarian private of Austrian origin is rather unlikely. It would be like IOTL: Despite converging ideas about war and national mobilisation H. was too vulgar for L.'s taste in the long run - and L. soon was to become too bonkers to be useful for any political party.
 

wormyguy

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Hitler was apparently a very convincing individual - I would not be surprised at all if he manages to bring Ludendorff at least partially around to his position.
 

Tomex

Banned
Hitler based his ideas on Ludendorff's visions of Mitteleurope and Lebensraum that he pursued during existance of Ober Ost.

No change . This is what happened in OTL.

Metapolitics: from Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler

By Peter Viereck page 194-195

Luddendorf, the greatest German general of the first World War, too up these theories of the German romantic school, and carried them furthes of all. He founded a new Wotan religion exalting "total war" as the highest German mission, with which all civilian must be co-ordinated. Ludendorff not only practised these theories in 1917 but preached them personally in Munich to his young disciples, Hitler and Alfred Rosenberg.
 
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