How to stop Hitler after 1932 inside germany?

The PoD is the german 1932 election that made the NSDAP the largest party.

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Hitler controls 33.09% of the seats, the second in place is Otto Wels with 20.43% followed by the KPD of Thalmann with 16.86%. What can be made to prevent the nazis from passing the enabling act and taking total control? No outside factor like a foreign invasion is allowed in this scenario.
 
Have any one of the numerous plans to assassinate or remove Hitler from power go ahead and succeed. Hitler had remarkable luck in dodging assassination and there were several times a coup was in the offing only for the plotters to call it off.
 
Papen's strategy -- the NSDAP was broke. One more election and the only thing left in the treasury would be Rudolf Hess's used trolley pass and an IOU from some soldier of the List Regiment who had been atomized by a French shell in 1918.
 
Hitler dying of an accident is a good start, ideally followed by internecine strife among the NSDAP.

That scenario, discussed in a recent thread, could well lead to prolonged muddling on, or a military Coup to restore the monarchy, or other outcomes.
 
Maybe…


1933- The Reichstag erupts in confusion as Rohm and his Brown shirts circulate their own version of the enabling act. Their version, naturally, appoints Rhoem to a newly created governmental position, grants him a range of powers and well, enables him to be co-Fuherer. The confused delegates pass at least two Enabling Acts. Faced with two acts, Hindenburg refuses to sigh either one. More confusion is generated when several delegates offer to retract their votes as they waver between Hitler and Rohm

+2 weeks, The German Chancellery: Hitler has been stewing and standing within sight of his goal for close to two weeks when he gets word that Hindenburg plans to not only suspend action on the Enabling Bills indefinitely, but also send the entire concept to the German High Court for further review. Hitler’s pot of soup then boils over.

The SS Coup:

Nobody knows if Himmler acted on his own, or was ordered to act by Hitler. The plan was simple, Hindenburg would taken into “protective custody”- then "encouraged" to sign Hitler’s version of the Enabling Act. If he refused, then he would be declared mentally incompetent and the Act presented to any senior official willing to sign it. In either case Hindenburg would then be taken to a well-guarded, rural health spa for “recovery”.

Simply put, the SS of 1933 was not the SS of OTL Waffen fame / infamy. Yes, the arresting squads had their pedigrees checked for generations; yes their uniforms were immaculate. They, however, were totally unaccustomed to any kind of resistance and used to bullying the unarmed. Accordingly, they ass-umed that Hindenburg would be protected by a half dozen police detectives.

In reality, Hindenburg’s Chief of Staff had organized a well drilled and oiled paramilitary police company of selected men to protect the Presidential Place from all threats- "Foreign and Domestic" (huge emphasis placed on the "domestic"). These men were then supplemented by household servants and other office staff trained in fire arms ostensibly to support Hindenburg’s shooting passions. Those not on duty that evening had apartments at the Presidential Palace. After all, what good is a guard if they are not around when they are needed?

Seven SS “medical orderlies”, including a number milling around the palace plaza in a panic and one presidential guard are killed in the first fire fight. Adding insult to injury, a further eight SS men drop their weapons and surrender. The rest flee. Another four SS men and three responding members of the Berlin Police are killed in a follow on gun battles as the Presidential palace broadcasts that they are under siege by "armed criminals".

The Brown Shirt counter Coup:

Rohm declares that Hitler as abrogated his position as Chancellor by allowing the "criminal" coup. He then orders Brown Shirts to secure the Presidential Palace- yeah right and also remove Hitler from the Chancellery. A Brown Shirt column finds the Palace closed off by Berlin Police and triumphant place guards. A stand off develops. Another Brown Shirt column moving on the Chancellery is beat back by SS loyalists at the cost of a dozen fatalities on both sides.

The Army counter counter coup:

The next days see mounting chaos and sporadic gun fights between competing columns of Brown shirts, SS and Police. Resurgent communists even establish a few armed check points in working class areas. Looking at 1919 again, the Army acts. Infantry battalions enter Berlin with orders to arrest Hitler (coup), and Rohm (illegal armed group). The Reichstag, SS and Brown Shirts are all dissolved as Hindenburg grants an Enabling Act of his own to a military Junta.

In a few days, dwindling resistance from SS and Brown Shirt fanatics ends. Hitler is taken into custody, heavily sedated and confided to a “special institution” off the Baltic coast. Rohm is let off easier and wins his freedom by renouncing all political involvement and by calling on former Brown Shirts to support the Junta.
 
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Simply have Rohm get word that Hitler is going to betray him and flee before Hitler arrests him, that's the end of him. Rohm's army was larger than the German army, but whatever the outcome of this would be, the only reason Hidenburg allowed Hitler to remain was because of an agreement that he would disband the SA, if the SA get out of control then Hitler has failed and he can be dismissed.

Another option would be to have Elser's bomb succeed, he was the one that got the closest to ever kill Hitler (yes, closer than even Stauffenberg) and his bomb would not only had killed Hitler, but a huge chunk of the Nazi leadership at the same time. You only have to delay Hitler for less than 30 minutes and he is done.
 
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