They would, however, take the "Socialist" part more seriously. There'll be economic reforms against the Aristocracy and a rapprochement with the Soviet Union. You can bet that will plunge the west into a Panic, especially as the USSR starts helping Spain, China and any rebellious colony of the French and British they can find, now abetted by Germany's raw industrial power.A fascist party rising to power without Hitler ?
Yes, well possible
(my best bet : Gregor Strasser joining some other "völkisch" group(s) after the war and later taking them over with his organisatorical skills. maybe with Ludendorff as a figure head in the beginning, thrown out of the boat in the mid to late 20ies, when he started to get really weird, maybe then replaced by another war hero as figure head : the last leader of the Richthofen squadrom, Goering ... a Strasser/Göring TL, anyone interested to this challange ?).
Howerer, it would be NOzis, as ITTL Nazis would lack the insane, industrial murderous antisemitism of Adolf Hitler.
They would still be antisemitics, ... as a big fraction of the elites world-wide were in the interwar period, but I doubtif it would even reach the level of the Nuremberg laws. ... some "aryanisation" of companies, some mild "Law to protect the cicil service" as of 1933 IOTL, but that would be it.
1) If “the ideology” means specifically Nazis, not just facism and/or antisemitism, I beg to disagree.Sure. It wasn't like he was the ideology's founder or anything.
THIS ... Is a rather cheap excuse for not really looking into the time and events, that lead to the Nazi catastrophe.the Nazi rise to power came about because of:
1) a small, dopesville party having an almost ASB run of good luck,
IF ... these "moderate people" had NOT tied themselve to "procedural knots" as you name it, which are in reality nothing more than the rules, regulations as well as meaning of the/a representative, parliamentary, democratic state model the "Republik of Weimar" and its written constitution actually was (though arguably "too" democratic for europe, germany and its time),2) the reasonable, moderate people tying themselves into procedural knots, while the fanatics certainly did not, and
What actual event you refer too ?3) Paul von Hindenburg throwing the fuck it switch when he really didn't need to.
Somehow, I'm afraid here are Gregor and Otto Strasser mixed up once more.They would, however, take the "Socialist" part more seriously. There'll be economic reforms against the Aristocracy and a rapprochement with the Soviet Union. You can bet that will plunge the west into a Panic, especially as the USSR starts helping Spain, China and any rebellious colony of the French and British they can find, now abetted by Germany's raw industrial power.
I have in mind things such as the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate. Some people might view it as a bulwark for liberty. Ha, I say. It's a bulwark to minority rule. Not minority rights mind you, but minority rule. And a lot of people don't realize that the filibuster is not part of the Constitution, not even a law, rather it's just an internal Senate rule.IF ... these "moderate people" had NOT tied themselve to "procedural knots" as you name it, which are in reality nothing more than the rules, regulations as well as meaning of the/a representative, parliamentary, democratic state model the "Republik of Weimar" and its written constitution . . .
As far as the Reichstag of the Weimar Republik is concerned :I have in mind things such as the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate. Some people might view it as a bulwark for liberty. Ha, I say. It's a bulwark to minority rule. Not minority rights mind you, but minority rule. And a lot of people don't realize that the filibuster is not part of the Constitution, not even a law, rather it's just an internal Senate rule.
It was Brüning - more or less alone - who "run" the goverment, using/abusing (as it may taste to you) Hindenburg and with him the article 48.Okay, as far as per-Nazi Germany, from 1930 to '32 President Hindenburg and Chancellor Brüning ran the government under the emergency powers of Article 48. General von Schleicher of the Army persuaded Hindenburg to pressure
Brüning to resign, who did so in May '32. Von Papen became Chancellor even though his Center Party only had 68 supporters in the Reichstag.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/tch_wjec/germany19291947/1hitlerchancellor2.shtml
Wow, this is complicated, and opaque. And I think it misses the quality of a successful coalition in a well-functioning parliamentary system in which the leaders of the various parties have to then sell the resulting coalition to their members. And thus it becomes a more open process than just a few individuals making decisions out of desperation.
Sry, but ... I have no idea what that means.PS I'm a Yank, so I did not grow up with a parliamentary system. It's not my first language so to speak.
A system where a president appoints a 'chancellor' seems clumsy and clunky to me, as well as centralized.. . . It was Brüning - more or less alone - who "run" the goverment, using/abusing (as it may taste to you) Hindenburg and with him the article 48.
Actually Brüning discussed all of his "emergency decrees", "laws" and "regulations" his goverment issued with representatives of every other party . . .
This is what I was taught in 5th grade (age 11), 9th grade (age 15), and 12th grade (age 18), as well as at various other times, plus in Boy Scouts.In America, the people elect (using a state-by-state system that does not always correspond to popular vote), the president, as well as senators and members of congress in independent elections. The president appoints court justices and judges, subject to the approval of the senate. That's what we call three branches of government, with separation of powers and "checks and balances" among the three. What GeographyDude was saying, he doesn't identify with a parliamentary systems where the legislative parliament chooses a prime minister who acts as chief executive.
Well, Hindenburg was largely being stage managed by Oskar at this point, and Schleicher had pissed off Little Oskar.the Nazi rise to power came about because of:
1) a small, dopesville party having an almost ASB run of good luck,
2) the reasonable, moderate people tying themselves into procedural knots, while the fanatics certainly did not, and
3) Paul von Hindenburg throwing the fuck it switch when he really didn't need to.