Ernst Rohm Survives And Remains NAZI Leader.

Does he become furher? Is there a War? How does such a war turn out?Are there death Camps and do they still given Rohm's orientation, massacre gay people? What happens Hitler and his mates?
An ex-Marxist friend of mine points out that a violent split is always inevitable with fascists!
 
E. Rohm d.1939 Killed by Wehrmacht firing squad after the coup. Seriously the guy was an even bigger nutbag than Hitler and the Military would never have excepted him as a Fuhrer, Even keeping him alive and in charge of the SA seriously weakens the Nazi position with the Army and Industrialists. You do realize the man was a flaming homosexual and wasnt well liked by the average German. His whole idea of replacing the Wehrmacht with the SA was ludicrous how well do you think Herr and Frau Schimdt would react to there sons being drafted into a homoerotic organization. In short the Nazis needed to clean house to get the Army/Industrialists on board so Rohm and his SA needed to go.
 

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I suppose it's plausable that Rohm could have staged a coup and decapitated the rest of the Nazi leadership, but his regime would be even more unstable than Hitler's.
 
Rohm was never the leader of the Nazi Party, only the SA. And TBH he was probably more of a nutter than Hitler was.

If he somehow managed to catch wind of the Knight of the Long Knives and launch a counter coup, killing Hitler and replacing him as head of the Nazi Party (but not the Chancellor which would devolve down to Von Papen as Vice-Chancellor), it would probably end the entire existence of the party. There would be a major schism, the SA would follow Rohm, Himmler, Goring and the SS would split off, and in the ensuing chaos President Hindenburg would have no choice but to dissolve the Reichstag and call new elections due to the assassination of his Chancellor (the office of Fuhrer did not exist yet). The implosion of the party would mean a respite for the Weimar Republic, the Far Right being discredited, and with the Far Left in disarray since the forced liquidation of the KPD a year earlier, it would be left to what could be gathered from the SPD and others to form a new government.
 
Ah yes, but this is AH let's see where this goes. This sounds neat to see what would happen the Nazi party in particularly. Rohm would be hunted by, well, everyone most likely. The Nazi party once it gets new leadership would probably get more of a sympathy vote. It would still be a major party in a coalition most likely.
 
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