I just read about how DNVP, NSDAP, Centre and DVP merged to become CDU in 1931, and Hitler became a Chancellor of Germany as a moderate. If that unification didn't happen and Hitler took power, could he become a dictator?
DBWI: Hitler the Dictator
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Well Chancellor Hitler did act very erratic (and had policies that were borderline fascist) before he was shot in the head accidentally during his insane "Beer Hall Putsch".
Many psychological historians have suggested that had something to do with his dramatic change in personality after he got out of the hospital and prison.
Many psychological historians have suggested that had something to do with his dramatic change in personality after he got out of the hospital and prison.
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More like a figurehead used by the likes of Von Papen or Schacht who would run the show from the shadows. That said, it doesn't mean that Germany wouldn't have become a dictatorship - it has already been moving in that direction in Hindenburg's last years in the office, what with him invoking the Article 48 left and right.
Ok.
By the way, I don't know how Hitler, anti-semite, could work well with Otto Frank,Minister of Economics, and a Jew.
(They are both member of CDU)
By the way, I don't know how Hitler, anti-semite, could work well with Otto Frank,Minister of Economics, and a Jew.
(They are both member of CDU)
Love me some Franco works.
My favorite is Covadonga.
He really makes you feel the horror of the Red bombing.
Based on what I read about during WW2, he's no figurehead. he was a core leader of Allied forces who defeated Picasso's Phalange regime and Mussolini's Fascist regime.
Also, Schlacht's president. That's saying something.
He could become a dictator. Not like a "declare himself to be the leader of a resurrected Viking empire and try to conquer the entire world by exterminating half of a continent and selling them into slavery with the intent of creating a caste system placing his nation as a new global aristocracy shaped by eternal war, but failing due to his own paranoia and insanity" dictator--that level of craziness just isn't possible--but maybe he would be like a typical pro-militarist dictator like was seen in Greece and Spain.
Hitler? Too ASB. You never read Mein Kampf, his memoir. "The power focused on one man is never desirable. Even in Ancient Monarchies, the power was split along with privy council."
That was close to what picasso actually said..
I suppose Picasso's views did become more extreme over time, due to influence from his advisers, including the lunatic Julius Evola.
What exactly was it that Picasso said?
He called for reclaiming Spanish Cololnies throughout the world, which will include phillippines, south america, and even cuba. This caused WW2
While Franco's early work was seminal and inspiring his failure to join other artists in defying the dictatorships sprouting up around them seemed to be a turning point. His later work lacked the fire he had come to be known for and he more or less became a parody of himself seemingly only engaging in art to pay for his drug habit or another night in a Munich brothel.
Meanwhile in Madrid the society closes itself off more and more from the rest of the world and those few visitors that are allowed to leave say the Spanish experience has become surreal.
Meanwhile in Madrid the society closes itself off more and more from the rest of the world and those few visitors that are allowed to leave say the Spanish experience has become surreal.
when are you from,1939? Picasso committed suicide in 1945 after losing WW2. Afterwards, it was quick road to democratization.
furthermore, Franco's work after ww2 focused on reconstruction and was a founder of spanish comic book industry, turning comic book into high art.
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I'd certainly call the terrifying death worship festival Picasso held in 1942 surreal.
It doesn't get much more surreal than several thousand Legionaries and Regulares compelling confused and terrified Madrileños to bow down before a giant statue of death itself.
I think it was about at that point a lot of his supporters decided that it wasn't really possible to rationalize his regime as defending 'order' or 'stability' anymore.
I've spoken to Spaniards whose parents or grandparents remember being forced to paint '!Viva la Muerte!' on the facades of homes, workplaces, and schools.
Luckly, we won't see these again after the war. Spain is a booming democracy as of 1959.
Well he was ousted officially in 1944 but his government actually survived until 1945 with the help of French occupation troops in the north--even though the south of Spain was occupied by Britain.
OOC: sort of like Italy in WW2, replace Germany with France