So, recently I've been thinking about these two scenarios:
1) It's often said that Hugenberg allied with Hitler because he believed he could control him and be the de facto ruler of Germany. What if in this timeline he manages to do so (however unlikely this may seem)?
2) Possibly as a result of Hugenberg's attempt to control Hitler, The Reichstag Fire Act and the Enabling Act are met with strong opposition and are not passed, with Hitler still in power, but Germany also remaining a multi-party democracy (for a time, at least).
Do you think DNVP could eventually manage to become the dominant party in Germany? Would that see a possible restoration of the Kaiserreich? And how would the foreign policy of such Germany look like?
Or maybe the anti-democratic party would have been marginalized and a status quo would have been preserved?
Or communists possibly take advantage of the situation and stage a revolution?
Maybe the whole situation eventually plunges Germany into a civil war?
What do you think?