Himmler or Rohm are probably good scapegoats for this.
What happened to Goering? Considering his nature as a fighter ace and one of the more pragmatic of the Nazis, I think he'd follow Goebbels into the Imperial Government.
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What happened to Goering? Considering his nature as a fighter ace and one of the more pragmatic of the Nazis, I think he'd follow Goebbels into the Imperial Government.
That fat old man needs to go. While I think his decision to patronize the Me-109 is overly-demonized, his bumbling of the strategic and medium bomber programs cost Germany a lot. Too bad Wever is dead, he'd be the best candidate to lead the Luftwaffe.
Will not answer that now
We will see what happens to all the major Nazis in future chapters, including Goering so just wait a little for it ^^
Chapter 207: Namo and Faro in the Americas: - O Canada
Chapter 207: Namo and Faro in the Americas: - O Canada
National Monarchism (Namo) or Fascist Royalism (Faro) had risen in Canada after National Socialism (Nazi) parties became more and more unpopular in the late thirties/ early forties. Fascism in Canada (French: Fascisme au Canada) had never commanded a large following amongst the Canadian people, and was most popular during the Great Depression. Most Canadian Namo/Faro leaders were interned at the outbreak of the Second Great War under the Defence of Canada Regulations.
The Canadian Fascist Royalist Party:
The Canadian Fascist Party was a fascist politicial party based in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in the 1930s. The formative core of the party was a splinter group from the Canadian Nationalist Party that found the principles of corporativism to be more important than the largely racial motivations of the Nationalist Party. This disposition is highlighted in one official statement that "anti-semitism was a symptom of Germany not of Fascism". The party was founded as the British Empire Union of Fascists and was affiliated with the British Union of Fascists. It later became known as the Canadian Union of Fascists and Canadian Union. It published its own newspaper, The Thunderbolt. The party was led by Chuck Crate, who became leader at the age of 17. He had contacted the British Union of Fascists, who put him in touch with the party. John Ross Taylor of Toronto became the party's secretary and organizer. The party had a hard time attracting supporters because most Canadians who supported fascism leaned towards the racist brand espoused by Adrien Arcand and others. At the party's first meeting, there was an attendance of roughly 200 people. This disparity between the party and Arcand's would continue throughout its existence. Before the government took action against Canadian fascist parties, the Canadian Union of Fascists and Arcand's group held simultaneous fascist congresses in Toronto. While Arcand's group, dubbed the "National Union" drew a crowd of around 4,000, the Canadian Union managed to draw only some 30 local residents to its cause. Later the Canadian Fascist Party, became the Canadian Fascist Royalist Party, promoting their own independence and king instead of being ruled by a British King across the Ocean. They would have strong ties to American groups who favored the Axis Central Powers over Great Britain and the Commonwealth and had the dream of their own Canadian Revolution to become independent from England, like the USA had done before them.
The Parti National Social Chrétien and Canadian Union of Fascist Royalists:
Originally founded as the Canadian Union of Fascist, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was modeled on Great Britain and Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Its leader was Chuck Crate. Parti National Social Chrétien (English: National Social Christian Party) was founded in Quebec in February 1934 by Adrien Arcand. In October 1934, the party merged with the Canadian Nationalist Party, which was based in the prairie provinces. In June 1938, it merged with Nazi groups from Ontario and Quebec (many of which were known as Swatisca clubs), to form the National Unity Party. Fascist concepts and policies, such as eugenics, formulated in the US, found a friendly reception in Canada in some provinces, such as Alberta, where, under a Social Credit government, alleged mental defectives and other 'non-producers' were involuntarily sterilized to prevent the birth of more similar people. Social democrat Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan, wrote his 1933 master thesis paper endorsing some of the ideas of eugenics, but later abandoned and rejected such notions. The Parti National Social Chrétien was identified with antisemitism, and German leader Adolf Hitler's Nazism. The party was later known, in English, as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party or National Unity Party. Adrien Arcand formed the party in February 1934. Arcand himself was a Quebec-based fascist and antisemite. An admirer of Adolf Hitler, Arcand referred to himself as the "Canadian führer". In October 1934, the party merged with the Canadian Nationalist Party, which was based in the Prairie provinces. By the mid-1930s, the party had some success, with a few thousand members mainly concentrated in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta. In June 1938, it merged with Nazi and other racist clubs in Ontario and Quebes, many of which were known as Swatiska clubs, to form the National Unity Party at a national convention held in Kingston, Ontario. At a time of English-French Canadian tension, Arcand tried to create a pan-Canadian (English and French) nationalist political movement. It was based on the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany. Arcand then proceeded to Toronto where his new party held a rally of 800 supporters at Massey Hall. However, the anti-fascist Canadian League for Peace and Democracy held a simultaneous rally of 10,000 people at Maple Leaf Gardens in opposition to Arcand. Arcand's group was known colloquially as the "Blue Shirts", and commonly fought with immigrants, Canadian minorities and leftist groups. The group boasted that it would seize power in Canada, but the party exaggerated its own influence.
All of the National Monarchist (Namo) or Fascist Royalist (Faro) parties and groups were banned on May 30, 1940, under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act and many Namo/Faro leader and many of their followers were arrested and detained for the duration of the Second Great War. Some of their members favored breaking away from the British Empire and the Commonwealth to remain neutral, others favored joining the Axis Central Powers, or to create their own faction and alliance with the United States of America. Many Namo/Faro party members were told to obey the law but to work for a negotiated peace. Some escaped charges for treason by exiling and ended up in the Royal Canadian Navy. Just like the "British Union/ British Union of Royalist Fascists and National Monarchists", and the "British Empire Union/ British Empire Union of Royalist Fascists and National Monarchists" as a head organization in the whole Commonwealth, the "Canadian Union/ Canadian Union of Royalist Fascists and National Monarchists" was weakened by the many Namo/Faro organizations, groups and parties that competed against one another to lead Canada into the future and even had goals that sometimes excluded one another. While they had some things in common with the Canadian Communists and Comintern (like the wish to stay neutral with ideas like Defence Scheme No. 2 from the First Great War should the United States and Japan start going to conflict and fighting each other). These Canadian Communists/ Canadian Comintern (called CC's) however dreamed of destroying the Royal Constitutional Monarchy altogether and Unify Canada in a Socialist Utopia without classes and rulers. On the other hand they dreamed of a united Fascist Royalist Canada and were in heavy dispute against these Namo/Faro factions like the Nouvelle-France movement of the Québécois nationalism in former French Canada that was heavily supported by French Emperor Napoléon VI. They wished for their own independent nation and strongly protested the forced conscription of their people for the British Empire and the Commonwealth in all of Quebec from major cities and smaller towns. The Axis Central Powers, mostly France and Germany supported the Canadian Blue Shirts that were forced underground. They managed to unify some of these Namo/Famo parties, groups and organizations that feared to be to weakened and decentralized now united with Axis Central Power support and formed the Iron Maple as a unifying umbrella organization. The goal was to unify, guide and support all the different parties, groups and organizations in a combined effort to bring down the Allies.
National Monarchism (Namo) or Fascist Royalism (Faro) had risen in Canada after National Socialism (Nazi) parties became more and more unpopular in the late thirties/ early forties. Fascism in Canada (French: Fascisme au Canada) had never commanded a large following amongst the Canadian people, and was most popular during the Great Depression. Most Canadian Namo/Faro leaders were interned at the outbreak of the Second Great War under the Defence of Canada Regulations.
The Canadian Fascist Royalist Party:
The Canadian Fascist Party was a fascist politicial party based in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in the 1930s. The formative core of the party was a splinter group from the Canadian Nationalist Party that found the principles of corporativism to be more important than the largely racial motivations of the Nationalist Party. This disposition is highlighted in one official statement that "anti-semitism was a symptom of Germany not of Fascism". The party was founded as the British Empire Union of Fascists and was affiliated with the British Union of Fascists. It later became known as the Canadian Union of Fascists and Canadian Union. It published its own newspaper, The Thunderbolt. The party was led by Chuck Crate, who became leader at the age of 17. He had contacted the British Union of Fascists, who put him in touch with the party. John Ross Taylor of Toronto became the party's secretary and organizer. The party had a hard time attracting supporters because most Canadians who supported fascism leaned towards the racist brand espoused by Adrien Arcand and others. At the party's first meeting, there was an attendance of roughly 200 people. This disparity between the party and Arcand's would continue throughout its existence. Before the government took action against Canadian fascist parties, the Canadian Union of Fascists and Arcand's group held simultaneous fascist congresses in Toronto. While Arcand's group, dubbed the "National Union" drew a crowd of around 4,000, the Canadian Union managed to draw only some 30 local residents to its cause. Later the Canadian Fascist Party, became the Canadian Fascist Royalist Party, promoting their own independence and king instead of being ruled by a British King across the Ocean. They would have strong ties to American groups who favored the Axis Central Powers over Great Britain and the Commonwealth and had the dream of their own Canadian Revolution to become independent from England, like the USA had done before them.
The Parti National Social Chrétien and Canadian Union of Fascist Royalists:
Originally founded as the Canadian Union of Fascist, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was modeled on Great Britain and Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Its leader was Chuck Crate. Parti National Social Chrétien (English: National Social Christian Party) was founded in Quebec in February 1934 by Adrien Arcand. In October 1934, the party merged with the Canadian Nationalist Party, which was based in the prairie provinces. In June 1938, it merged with Nazi groups from Ontario and Quebec (many of which were known as Swatisca clubs), to form the National Unity Party. Fascist concepts and policies, such as eugenics, formulated in the US, found a friendly reception in Canada in some provinces, such as Alberta, where, under a Social Credit government, alleged mental defectives and other 'non-producers' were involuntarily sterilized to prevent the birth of more similar people. Social democrat Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan, wrote his 1933 master thesis paper endorsing some of the ideas of eugenics, but later abandoned and rejected such notions. The Parti National Social Chrétien was identified with antisemitism, and German leader Adolf Hitler's Nazism. The party was later known, in English, as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party or National Unity Party. Adrien Arcand formed the party in February 1934. Arcand himself was a Quebec-based fascist and antisemite. An admirer of Adolf Hitler, Arcand referred to himself as the "Canadian führer". In October 1934, the party merged with the Canadian Nationalist Party, which was based in the Prairie provinces. By the mid-1930s, the party had some success, with a few thousand members mainly concentrated in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta. In June 1938, it merged with Nazi and other racist clubs in Ontario and Quebes, many of which were known as Swatiska clubs, to form the National Unity Party at a national convention held in Kingston, Ontario. At a time of English-French Canadian tension, Arcand tried to create a pan-Canadian (English and French) nationalist political movement. It was based on the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany. Arcand then proceeded to Toronto where his new party held a rally of 800 supporters at Massey Hall. However, the anti-fascist Canadian League for Peace and Democracy held a simultaneous rally of 10,000 people at Maple Leaf Gardens in opposition to Arcand. Arcand's group was known colloquially as the "Blue Shirts", and commonly fought with immigrants, Canadian minorities and leftist groups. The group boasted that it would seize power in Canada, but the party exaggerated its own influence.
All of the National Monarchist (Namo) or Fascist Royalist (Faro) parties and groups were banned on May 30, 1940, under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act and many Namo/Faro leader and many of their followers were arrested and detained for the duration of the Second Great War. Some of their members favored breaking away from the British Empire and the Commonwealth to remain neutral, others favored joining the Axis Central Powers, or to create their own faction and alliance with the United States of America. Many Namo/Faro party members were told to obey the law but to work for a negotiated peace. Some escaped charges for treason by exiling and ended up in the Royal Canadian Navy. Just like the "British Union/ British Union of Royalist Fascists and National Monarchists", and the "British Empire Union/ British Empire Union of Royalist Fascists and National Monarchists" as a head organization in the whole Commonwealth, the "Canadian Union/ Canadian Union of Royalist Fascists and National Monarchists" was weakened by the many Namo/Faro organizations, groups and parties that competed against one another to lead Canada into the future and even had goals that sometimes excluded one another. While they had some things in common with the Canadian Communists and Comintern (like the wish to stay neutral with ideas like Defence Scheme No. 2 from the First Great War should the United States and Japan start going to conflict and fighting each other). These Canadian Communists/ Canadian Comintern (called CC's) however dreamed of destroying the Royal Constitutional Monarchy altogether and Unify Canada in a Socialist Utopia without classes and rulers. On the other hand they dreamed of a united Fascist Royalist Canada and were in heavy dispute against these Namo/Faro factions like the Nouvelle-France movement of the Québécois nationalism in former French Canada that was heavily supported by French Emperor Napoléon VI. They wished for their own independent nation and strongly protested the forced conscription of their people for the British Empire and the Commonwealth in all of Quebec from major cities and smaller towns. The Axis Central Powers, mostly France and Germany supported the Canadian Blue Shirts that were forced underground. They managed to unify some of these Namo/Famo parties, groups and organizations that feared to be to weakened and decentralized now united with Axis Central Power support and formed the Iron Maple as a unifying umbrella organization. The goal was to unify, guide and support all the different parties, groups and organizations in a combined effort to bring down the Allies.
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First part of a series of National Monarchism (Namo) or Fascist Royalism (Faro) organizations, groups and parties outside of Europe, covering all of America, Africa, Asia and Australia/Oceania in this side-chapter-series. ;D
Yes we will not only see these in independent states but all of them sooner or later as a world overiew. Clearly also everyone in states you readers ask for ;D ^^
Chapter 208: Return of the Zeppelin (airships)
Chapter 208: Return of the Zeppelin (airships):
With the ongoing battle above England between Allied and Axis Central Powers fighters and bombers, the struggle continued and the Imperial German High Command realized that with that much of their forces now concentrated and needed in the Eastern Crusade against the Soviet Union, they needed to think of better tactics, strategies and technologies for the Battle of Britain. They quickly rediscovered a old idea and technology anew and used it for a new kind of warfare. Zeppelin (airships) were reused in this Second World War first by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, then by the German Imperial Army and Navy, followed by the rest of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, the Axis Central Powers, and later even the Allies and the Soviet Union. Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere first used this new tactic and strategy in the Chinese Civil War, Germany and the Axis Central Powers inside the Soviet Union during the Eastern Crusade. Both times they faced a enemy with superior numbers in fighters and bombers where they had full air superiority during most operation. This was not the chase during the Battle of Britain, where the Axis Central Pwoers faced heavily Allied (mostly British, American, but also Canadian, South African, as well as some Australian and New Zealand pilots) resistance that prevented them from full air superiority over England that could have otherwise led to a direct invasion that could have maybe even forced the British out of the war for good..
Their newest idea and plans were to use Imperial German Kriegszeppeline (Military Airships) against the enemy. Originally such ides were abolished after the Hindenbrug disaster, but young Emperor Wilhelm III had the same fascination with the new modern power a strong air-force represented, then his father Wilhelm II had with a strong and powerful imperial navy. Luckily for them technology had greatly improved since the First Great War and the newer designs of the military airships have improved as well. All newer models had heavily increased anti-air cannons that covered all sides of the airship to defend it against enemy bombers. They would combine the older lighter-than-air airship principles and combine them with more modern aerodynamic lift principles of the heavier-than-air aerodyne. This meant that the newer airships had fixed wings and a lifting body, as well as sometimes being towed by transporters and bombers over parts of their start and early flight routes. As weapons of war, they were originally intended for long-endurance flights and they required forward flight to create the aerodynamic lift component. This new military airship models had rotary wings that could provide lift even when hovering or maneuvering vertically, like some of the newly developed rotorcraft inventions and prototypes used.
As a lifting gas hydrogen gas was used, due to its high lifting capacity and ready availability. Helium gas on the other hand had almost the same lifting capacity and was not flammable, unlike hydrogen, but it was rare and relatively expensive. Significant amounts were first discovered in the United States and therefore helium was only used for airships by the United States. Most airships built would use helium, though some continued to ude hydrogen and even hot air. The German Empire and the Japanese Empire, just like most of the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere would be forced to use hydrogen. This lead to the inclusion of a few small water tanks and pumps against possible fires and the evolution of different, separated compartment of filled gas tanks, like they were already used in naval ships against flooding. This meant that a fire, or even enemy shots that damaged one of the tanks would not simply bring down the airship at once, since one or two of the tanks were additional (even more in some models) and even damaged tanks could be refilled to some extend by burning inside the lower machines that could at least help a damaged tank to refill with hot steam for some time and to some extend. This combined with better and faster firing and reloading anti-air guns, a larger bomb capacity, breathing masks for the crew in higher flight zones and the most modern machinery and technology lead to a revival of airships and balloons, even for military purposes in the Second Great War.
Organized just like the regular Imperial German Air Service into Luftprovinzen (Air Districts), Luftflotte (Air Fleets), Fliegerkorps (Air Corps) and Geschwader (Wings), the newly formed Zeppelingechwader (ZG short, Airship Wings) were further divided into the actual Zeppelin and accompanying fighters and bombers. These were often added for his support and defence, but could also refer to those fighters and bombers the airship carried into battle if he was a Zeppelinträger (lit. Airship carrier). This later format was mostly used by the German High Seas Fleet (Hochseeflotte) in the Battle of the Atlantic. There their ZG's could carry fighters and bombers far away from the European continent to harass and raid Allied supply convoys, warships and even island bases in the name of the Axis Central Powers.
With the ongoing battle above England between Allied and Axis Central Powers fighters and bombers, the struggle continued and the Imperial German High Command realized that with that much of their forces now concentrated and needed in the Eastern Crusade against the Soviet Union, they needed to think of better tactics, strategies and technologies for the Battle of Britain. They quickly rediscovered a old idea and technology anew and used it for a new kind of warfare. Zeppelin (airships) were reused in this Second World War first by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, then by the German Imperial Army and Navy, followed by the rest of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, the Axis Central Powers, and later even the Allies and the Soviet Union. Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere first used this new tactic and strategy in the Chinese Civil War, Germany and the Axis Central Powers inside the Soviet Union during the Eastern Crusade. Both times they faced a enemy with superior numbers in fighters and bombers where they had full air superiority during most operation. This was not the chase during the Battle of Britain, where the Axis Central Pwoers faced heavily Allied (mostly British, American, but also Canadian, South African, as well as some Australian and New Zealand pilots) resistance that prevented them from full air superiority over England that could have otherwise led to a direct invasion that could have maybe even forced the British out of the war for good..
Their newest idea and plans were to use Imperial German Kriegszeppeline (Military Airships) against the enemy. Originally such ides were abolished after the Hindenbrug disaster, but young Emperor Wilhelm III had the same fascination with the new modern power a strong air-force represented, then his father Wilhelm II had with a strong and powerful imperial navy. Luckily for them technology had greatly improved since the First Great War and the newer designs of the military airships have improved as well. All newer models had heavily increased anti-air cannons that covered all sides of the airship to defend it against enemy bombers. They would combine the older lighter-than-air airship principles and combine them with more modern aerodynamic lift principles of the heavier-than-air aerodyne. This meant that the newer airships had fixed wings and a lifting body, as well as sometimes being towed by transporters and bombers over parts of their start and early flight routes. As weapons of war, they were originally intended for long-endurance flights and they required forward flight to create the aerodynamic lift component. This new military airship models had rotary wings that could provide lift even when hovering or maneuvering vertically, like some of the newly developed rotorcraft inventions and prototypes used.
As a lifting gas hydrogen gas was used, due to its high lifting capacity and ready availability. Helium gas on the other hand had almost the same lifting capacity and was not flammable, unlike hydrogen, but it was rare and relatively expensive. Significant amounts were first discovered in the United States and therefore helium was only used for airships by the United States. Most airships built would use helium, though some continued to ude hydrogen and even hot air. The German Empire and the Japanese Empire, just like most of the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere would be forced to use hydrogen. This lead to the inclusion of a few small water tanks and pumps against possible fires and the evolution of different, separated compartment of filled gas tanks, like they were already used in naval ships against flooding. This meant that a fire, or even enemy shots that damaged one of the tanks would not simply bring down the airship at once, since one or two of the tanks were additional (even more in some models) and even damaged tanks could be refilled to some extend by burning inside the lower machines that could at least help a damaged tank to refill with hot steam for some time and to some extend. This combined with better and faster firing and reloading anti-air guns, a larger bomb capacity, breathing masks for the crew in higher flight zones and the most modern machinery and technology lead to a revival of airships and balloons, even for military purposes in the Second Great War.
Organized just like the regular Imperial German Air Service into Luftprovinzen (Air Districts), Luftflotte (Air Fleets), Fliegerkorps (Air Corps) and Geschwader (Wings), the newly formed Zeppelingechwader (ZG short, Airship Wings) were further divided into the actual Zeppelin and accompanying fighters and bombers. These were often added for his support and defence, but could also refer to those fighters and bombers the airship carried into battle if he was a Zeppelinträger (lit. Airship carrier). This later format was mostly used by the German High Seas Fleet (Hochseeflotte) in the Battle of the Atlantic. There their ZG's could carry fighters and bombers far away from the European continent to harass and raid Allied supply convoys, warships and even island bases in the name of the Axis Central Powers.
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Going to break one AH.com law for sure TTL, things WILL happen in South America later on. ;D ^^
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I think trying to use airships for Anti-submarine warfare and as an AC-130 like gunship is a great idea, but you'd need air superiority to do so
*cracks neck and takes a deep breath*
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLS! GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE FIRST IN THE WORLD!
Just imagine that in place of the Shield emblem there's the Black Cross that is the traditional emblem of the German nation
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLS! GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE FIRST IN THE WORLD!
Just imagine that in place of the Shield emblem there's the Black Cross that is the traditional emblem of the German nation
As long as you have Pacific War battles that are at least slightly different from OTL, I will be happy.
Chapter 209: Hitler's former Cabinet – A tale of Otto Georg Thierack
Chapter 209: Hitler's former Cabinet – A tale of Otto Georg Thierack:
Otto Georg Thierack (born 19 April) was a Nazi jurist and politician. Thierack was born in Wurzen in Saxony. He took part in the First Great War from 1914 to 1918 as a volunteer, reaching the rank of lieutenant. He suffered a facial injury and was decorated with the Iron Cross, second class. After the war ended, he resumed his interrupted law studies and ended them in 1920 with his Assessor (junior lawyer) examination. In the same year, he was hired as a court Assessor in Saxony. On 1 August 1932, Thierack joined the Nazi Party. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, he managed within a very short time to rise high in the ranks from a prosecutor to President of the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court). The groundwork on which this rise was built was not merely that Thierack had been a Nazi Party member, but rather also that he had been leader of the National Socialist jurists' organization, the so-called Rechtswahrerbund. On 12 May 1933, having been appointed Saxony's justice minister, it was Thierack's job to "Nazify" justice, which was a part of the Nazis' Gleichschaltung (Coordination) that he had to put into practice in Saxony. After going through several mid-level professional posts, he became Vice President of the Reich Court in 1935 and in 1936 President of the Volksgerichtshof, which had been newly founded in 1934. He held this job, until the military coup against Hitler in 1938 when he was replaced by a member of the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) like so many others.
Originally Thierack assumed he would stay in power and even suggested himself as the new Reich Minister of Justice. He claimed he could aid the new Empire by supporting it's at that moment still weak rule and suggested that so called monthly Richterbriefe should be given out by the government in which model decisions would be shown upon which German jurisprudence would then be based. Thierack also suggested the so-called Vorschauen and Nachschauen ("previews" and "inspections"). After this, the higher state court presidents, in proceedings of public interest, had at least every two weeks to discuss with the public prosecutor's office and the State Court president – who had to pass this on the responsible criminal courts – how a case was to be judged before the court's decision. Thierack also claimed that the lengthy paperwork involved in clemency proceedings for those sentenced to death was a failure and that it should be greatly shortened. He also suggested that all those in custody who were "Jews, Gypsies, Ukrainians, Poles sentenced to over three years, Czechs, or Germans serving a sentence of over eight years" to be classified as "asocial elements" and transferred to the still Open Concentration Camps to get rid of these traitors and enemies of the state. He even suggested using a guillotine and hanging for those sentenced to death instead of a firing squad, because of the greater shock value.
This put Thierack in great contrast to the Aristocrats and Militarists around Emperor Wilhelm II's new government, who wished to reestablish a partly democratic, parliamentarian, constitutional monarchy with a fair justice system for all, instead of the arbitrariness that the Nazi Government had used in their Justice System and everyday decisions. Therefore Otto Georg Thierack was charged with treason against the German Empire like many other Nazis who tried to establish their own State and System, instead of restoring the old German Empire out of the so called Weimar Republic. He was charged with treason, by supporting legal justification for the Nazi government and if found guilty, would be sentenced to death by a firing squad. However before he could be brought before a court, Thierack committed suicide in prison, by poisoning himself to escape this public humiliation he had put others trought.
Otto Georg Thierack (born 19 April) was a Nazi jurist and politician. Thierack was born in Wurzen in Saxony. He took part in the First Great War from 1914 to 1918 as a volunteer, reaching the rank of lieutenant. He suffered a facial injury and was decorated with the Iron Cross, second class. After the war ended, he resumed his interrupted law studies and ended them in 1920 with his Assessor (junior lawyer) examination. In the same year, he was hired as a court Assessor in Saxony. On 1 August 1932, Thierack joined the Nazi Party. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, he managed within a very short time to rise high in the ranks from a prosecutor to President of the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court). The groundwork on which this rise was built was not merely that Thierack had been a Nazi Party member, but rather also that he had been leader of the National Socialist jurists' organization, the so-called Rechtswahrerbund. On 12 May 1933, having been appointed Saxony's justice minister, it was Thierack's job to "Nazify" justice, which was a part of the Nazis' Gleichschaltung (Coordination) that he had to put into practice in Saxony. After going through several mid-level professional posts, he became Vice President of the Reich Court in 1935 and in 1936 President of the Volksgerichtshof, which had been newly founded in 1934. He held this job, until the military coup against Hitler in 1938 when he was replaced by a member of the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) like so many others.
Originally Thierack assumed he would stay in power and even suggested himself as the new Reich Minister of Justice. He claimed he could aid the new Empire by supporting it's at that moment still weak rule and suggested that so called monthly Richterbriefe should be given out by the government in which model decisions would be shown upon which German jurisprudence would then be based. Thierack also suggested the so-called Vorschauen and Nachschauen ("previews" and "inspections"). After this, the higher state court presidents, in proceedings of public interest, had at least every two weeks to discuss with the public prosecutor's office and the State Court president – who had to pass this on the responsible criminal courts – how a case was to be judged before the court's decision. Thierack also claimed that the lengthy paperwork involved in clemency proceedings for those sentenced to death was a failure and that it should be greatly shortened. He also suggested that all those in custody who were "Jews, Gypsies, Ukrainians, Poles sentenced to over three years, Czechs, or Germans serving a sentence of over eight years" to be classified as "asocial elements" and transferred to the still Open Concentration Camps to get rid of these traitors and enemies of the state. He even suggested using a guillotine and hanging for those sentenced to death instead of a firing squad, because of the greater shock value.
This put Thierack in great contrast to the Aristocrats and Militarists around Emperor Wilhelm II's new government, who wished to reestablish a partly democratic, parliamentarian, constitutional monarchy with a fair justice system for all, instead of the arbitrariness that the Nazi Government had used in their Justice System and everyday decisions. Therefore Otto Georg Thierack was charged with treason against the German Empire like many other Nazis who tried to establish their own State and System, instead of restoring the old German Empire out of the so called Weimar Republic. He was charged with treason, by supporting legal justification for the Nazi government and if found guilty, would be sentenced to death by a firing squad. However before he could be brought before a court, Thierack committed suicide in prison, by poisoning himself to escape this public humiliation he had put others trought.
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