DBWI: Hitler stayed in politics?

As we all well know, Adolf Hitler lost heart in politics after the suicide of his niece Geli in 1931, and later left the Nazi Party after a successful start in satirical comedy. Apart from losing 'the King of Satire', how would things had gone if Hitler hadn't abandoned politics? Would he even have succeeded as he did IRL?
 
Interesting...

Well the obvious answer is that the Nazis wouldn't fracture into what became the dominant 'New Germany' Party under Goering and Goebbels' fringe 'True Blood' movement if he'd stayed.

Probably would have been an earlier war with the Soviets, given what we know about 'Crazy Uncle Adolf'. He was a great speaker, but little sense of proportion. When Goering became Chancellor in the right-wing coalition government, he was very cautious and into playing the long game with rearmament.

Which worked out...with mixed results of course, didn't it? OT1H, when Germany joined the Joint Declaration of War when the USSR invaded Finland, their army was still fairly small and the Soviets wrecked Berlin before Rommel drove 'em out. OTOH... A more rapid rearmament drive might have meant that Britain and France could have been hostile to Germany, there might have been no Grand Coalition against Communism. And no 'Special Relationship' between the British Empire and the German Republic like we have now.

Heck, the entire war against Communism might have been different. Which would have been bad for your homeland, @Count Valerian - OTL Japan made massive gains as part of the Grand Coalition...
 
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Yeah he did good as a satirist and his works are good, but as a politician? Eh, he had too much of an anti-jewish sentiment, especially after the failed revolution of 1918 in Bavaria which he disproportionately blamed the jews for it. Bankers will bank whether you want it or not. You're right tho theg, maybe he would attack the USSR while they weren't ready and maybe Germany would still have Berlin ayy and the USSR would enter as a clear victor
 
I am no fan of his paintings - but they are an important piece of that 'between great wars' movement - and the madness portrayed by them has rarely been matched.

So I guess that they would be missed by some!
 
Well to be fair, it was satire he was known for. I mean come on? Springtime for Stalin, anyone?

True.

Funnily enough, while he identified more with the True Blood movement for quite a while, after the War he took an odd pride in how Goering had led Germany at the time - sort of an 'I got him started' kind of thing. Especially after the Austrian referendum. Of course, after Goering's morphine addiction got really bad and he was given the boot, Hitler was suddenly a lot quieter...
 
True.

Funnily enough, while he identified more with the True Blood movement for quite a while, after the War he took an odd pride in how Goering had led Germany at the time - sort of an 'I got him started' kind of thing. Especially after the Austrian referendum. Of course, after Goering's morphine addiction got really bad and he was given the boot, Hitler was suddenly a lot quieter...

No one would want to be associated with an addict after all :p
 
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