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Yesterday I read a local news magazine here in Germany dealing with the problems of the SPD concerning the Left Party. The author wrote that they should indeed coalite with them even in the former West. He reminded that in Austria, FPÖ used to climb further and further with every election in the 1990s since Haider chaired over that party in 1986. Then, in 1999/2000, Wolfgang Schüssel from the ÖVP did the only reasonable thing, coaliting with the far-right populists under the conditions the conservative ÖVP is to make the chancellor. In 2002, premature elections were held after a cabinet crisis and the FPÖ from about 35 to mere 10 per cent and the ÖVP gained to 40 per cent.

True, maybe that's what von Paper and Schleicher used to think as well when engaging Hitler. But it failed miserably. Worse, they accepted a Nazi chancellorship. But of course, conditions in 1932 weren't as easy as in modern Austria. To have them that easy, you would need a Center party at 25 per cent at least. And anti-republicanism was very hostile in the early 1930s.


1930 there might have been a theoretic chance to do aforemention acrobatics. The NSDAP got 18 per cent, not near a majority though notable.

So what if e. g. some guy came up with a let's say Centre-DVP-DNVP-NSDAP coalition? And succeeded? What's happens next, especially in governing and the next elections?
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