Question: as Italy hasn’t switched side yet, has Junio Valerio Borghese bombed New York yet?
The Co-Prosperity Sphere
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I’ve heard online that this madlad intended to arrive by submarine in New York and place several charges, just like he did on the raid of Alexandria. His operation was canceled because the mother submarine carrying the mini submarines was destroyed by the British, and because Italy exited the war.
As the situation on the Mediterranean is far better, and Italy is still in the game, he might actually pull this off.
Here’s a YouTube video talking about it:
A yes one of the few OTL major glorious Italian military operations and victories, I will for sure think about a New York version of it TTL. ;D
And I can imagine the public opinion.
“If the Italians can do this, what are Germans and Japanese capable of!?!”
Well they are doing much better TTL around so ... ;D
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Also some major votes are coming up later for Germany and Austria (at first, later for nearly every other country too) letting you the readers devide what parties in these nation states are getting what percent of the vote and thereby helping you shape this TTL even furhter then by suggrestions and implemented ideas alone.
Before said votes/ elections you will also get a chapter, detailing the parties involved and what they stand for to make it as transparent as possible, like always votes will be anonymous and free (at least for parties allowed in certain states TTL). :3
Partly we will get into more detail in another chapter, but basically a certain amound of French volunteer workers for Germ factories frees one French POW (that in return is often then used to rebuild a French Royal Army - of soemtimes questionable loyality and skills)... ;D
Like Japanese name for each units or like the Stargate one, the Japanese name for race, unit and planets. That was awesomely amazing.
Mainly a online name generator, as well as inspiration from historical names of the times, mixing them up or in chase of Stargate old legends and history names of various places and people. ^^
TBH the Amra ones are the hardest as they have to sound somewhat english, but also distinct futureistic and alien as they play in a postapocalyptic world, but I hope they stil lsound somewhat realistic and good at the same time, that's what makes them stand out mainly for me I have to say, compared to all other TL's RPG and other stuff I do.
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Chapter 685: British Raj/ India as a Industrial Behemoth
Chapter 685: British Raj/ India as a Industrial Behemoth during the War
While the Japanese Empire prepared in much detail for their operations in the resource and defense areas they planned to capture, they lacked a similar network of spies, informants, local allies and supporters outside of this area. Something they would only start doing, once the Second Great War had already started, when their enemies were well prepared with their on counterintelligence and local security. Because of this they missed the overall output of military supplies and equipment from Indian factories, that increased over 700 percent between March 1940 and March 1944. It had started growing very little, but still managed to mobilize 2,581,000 soldiers, or 1,6 percent of the male population. However such a modern army the size of that being assembled in the country could not be supplied by India alone. Much ordnance material, especially the more sophisticated modern equipment and weapons, still had to be imported. In the production of warlike supplies other than munitions, however, India advanced rapidly. Of the eastern group countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth (like Canada, the West Indies and the United Kingdom), India produced 61 per cent of total output in the year ending March 1942. That share increased to 75 per cent over the following year 1943.
This growth was not achieved, however, without substantial cost to the wider domestic economy. No amount of organizational development could overcome an imbalance of demand against resources needed from outside India and the shipping to move them, which resulted from the theatre’s low position in overall war priorities. This shortfall could not be addressed satisfactorily until the End of the Second great War. It continually threatened India’s economic stability and inhibited the pace of operations in South-East Asia throughout the war. Even a own armored vehicle model was built in India, the Armoured Carrier, Wheeled, India Pattern Mark II/IIA/IIB/IIC built from 1940 to 1944 after a Ford Motor Company of Canada chassis and assembled and completed by the East Indian Railway and Tata Iron & Steel Company. These rear-engined vehicles saw service chiefly against the Japanese. Over 2.6 million Indian troops played a decisive role in the greatest conflict of the 20th century and helped Britain stay in the fight. Indian forces were dispatcher to major war zones across the globe. They terrorized German tank divisions in Africa, fought the Japanese in Burma, Assam and Benghal took part in the invasion of Morocco, and played a significant part in battles in the Middle East. Equally critical was Indian material help. Weapons, ammunition, timber, steel and especially food, were transported in vast quantities to Europe.
Britain’s dependence on India was near total. In fact, even during the First Great War (1914-18), India’s contribution was massive. The New York Times wrote in 1918: “The world must pay India in whatever India wants, for without Indian products, there would be greater difficulty in winning the war.” Bear in mind that in the Second Great War, the quantity of Indian supplies was greater by several orders of magnitude. Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the British Indian Army from 1942, asserted that the British “Couldn’t have come through both wars if they hadn’t had the Indian Army”. Even the racist and genocidal British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who had a pathological hatred of Indians calling them “... a beastly race with a beastly religion,”, acknowledged the “unsurpassed bravery of Indian soldiers and officers”. Despite this he was directly responsible for death by starvation of at least thee million people in Bengal during the Second Great War, in history’s most horrific man-made famine. When the Japanese attacked, the British ran away. They were very clever. They had a wonderful life with bungalows and butlers and cooks and all that, but as soon as the Japanese came, they ran away. And once they got back to India, they sent Gurkhas, Sikhs, Marathas and other Indians to fight the Japanese. This was gladly used by the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere for their anti-British Propaganda, portraying the British as Colonial Slave masters, who used Indian bodies and lives to maintain their colonial tyranny over India, while the Japanese and their allies fought against them for Indian Independence.
In 1939, at the start of the war, the Indian Army had just over 200,000 troops, enough to keep India in chains and the British safe from Indian revolutionaries. In 1940, the army’s size was increased to 1,000,000. Overall, India supplied a total of 2,581,726 army, navy and air force combatants. On top of this, 14 million Indian laborers worked round the clock to keep the war factories and farms running. Thanks to them during the war, India provided 196.7 million tonnes of coal, 6 million tonnes of iron ore and 1.12 million tonnes of steel. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Volume 2, says: “35 per cent of India’s annual cotton textile production, amounting to about 5,000,000,000 yards, went into creating war material.” For example Bengal had a bountiful harvest in 1942, but the British started diverting vast quantities of food grain from India to Britain, contributing to a massive food shortage in the areas comprising West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Bangladesh. The war also distorted the colony’s already broken economic system.
Wartime shortages and supply problems held industry back and caused severe disruptions to the internal market for consumer goods, which culminated in the Bengal Famine of 1943 that claimed more than three million lives. Some placed the real death toll at over seven million, exact numbers would never be known thanks to the war situation and the later Japanese Invasion into Assam and Bengal. During the war, as the threat of a Japanese-Indian National Army (led by Subhas Chandra Bose) invasion of India increased, the British employed a scorched earth policy in eastern India, especially Bengal. The British disabled and impounded all transport in Bengal, including boats, bullock carts, even elephants, to prevent their use by the Japanese. While retreating from India, the British also destroyed vast numbers of aircraft and defense supplies that legally belonged to India. Leading defense analyst Bharat Karnad informs that the Walchandnagar Aircraft Company (the precursor to Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) was contracted to build the B-24 Liberator bombers in Bangalore.
Around two million Indians would fight for England during the war, but at the same time anti-British sentiments and organizations grew in India itself. One of them was Ghandi's non-violent uprising for independence, that combined with a Japanese spy network and uprisings by anti-British and pro-Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere groups. Their uprising in India for independence would lead to the use of 57 British battalions that needed almost two and a half months to regain peace, law and order all over India. Worse the Japanese and the Azad Hind forces under Bose never got the time to help, or support these Indian rebels, despite them having a quit big spy network all over India. This was thanks to the fact that nearly all of those Co-Prosperity Spies and sympathizers were secretly Allied spies or double agents, feeding them false or conflicting information's, so that the Japanese would not use this crucial moment for another push into India. Instead this 27 agents fed the Japanese a lot of false, fictional information about British bases, fortifications and numbers, as well as about the Indian national uprising in 1942/43 that did not ad up and made the Japanese loose a massive opportunity, one they would only find about nearly one year later when their assault into Assam and Benghal would capture some of the British reports about it, as well as free some of the anti-British or outright pro-Japanese rioters and political groups in the region. It was however also partly thanks to Subhas Chandra Bose too, who had some better connections and information's from his Indian sources (like the Arakan Offensive, or the Chindit expeditions into Burma) he simply did not inform the Japanese about as he believed this, as well as the air bridge to China's United Front would then force them to push further, deeper into Assam and Benghal as well of the rest of India, freeing his continent just like he hoped and wished for.
While the Japanese Empire prepared in much detail for their operations in the resource and defense areas they planned to capture, they lacked a similar network of spies, informants, local allies and supporters outside of this area. Something they would only start doing, once the Second Great War had already started, when their enemies were well prepared with their on counterintelligence and local security. Because of this they missed the overall output of military supplies and equipment from Indian factories, that increased over 700 percent between March 1940 and March 1944. It had started growing very little, but still managed to mobilize 2,581,000 soldiers, or 1,6 percent of the male population. However such a modern army the size of that being assembled in the country could not be supplied by India alone. Much ordnance material, especially the more sophisticated modern equipment and weapons, still had to be imported. In the production of warlike supplies other than munitions, however, India advanced rapidly. Of the eastern group countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth (like Canada, the West Indies and the United Kingdom), India produced 61 per cent of total output in the year ending March 1942. That share increased to 75 per cent over the following year 1943.
This growth was not achieved, however, without substantial cost to the wider domestic economy. No amount of organizational development could overcome an imbalance of demand against resources needed from outside India and the shipping to move them, which resulted from the theatre’s low position in overall war priorities. This shortfall could not be addressed satisfactorily until the End of the Second great War. It continually threatened India’s economic stability and inhibited the pace of operations in South-East Asia throughout the war. Even a own armored vehicle model was built in India, the Armoured Carrier, Wheeled, India Pattern Mark II/IIA/IIB/IIC built from 1940 to 1944 after a Ford Motor Company of Canada chassis and assembled and completed by the East Indian Railway and Tata Iron & Steel Company. These rear-engined vehicles saw service chiefly against the Japanese. Over 2.6 million Indian troops played a decisive role in the greatest conflict of the 20th century and helped Britain stay in the fight. Indian forces were dispatcher to major war zones across the globe. They terrorized German tank divisions in Africa, fought the Japanese in Burma, Assam and Benghal took part in the invasion of Morocco, and played a significant part in battles in the Middle East. Equally critical was Indian material help. Weapons, ammunition, timber, steel and especially food, were transported in vast quantities to Europe.
Britain’s dependence on India was near total. In fact, even during the First Great War (1914-18), India’s contribution was massive. The New York Times wrote in 1918: “The world must pay India in whatever India wants, for without Indian products, there would be greater difficulty in winning the war.” Bear in mind that in the Second Great War, the quantity of Indian supplies was greater by several orders of magnitude. Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the British Indian Army from 1942, asserted that the British “Couldn’t have come through both wars if they hadn’t had the Indian Army”. Even the racist and genocidal British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who had a pathological hatred of Indians calling them “... a beastly race with a beastly religion,”, acknowledged the “unsurpassed bravery of Indian soldiers and officers”. Despite this he was directly responsible for death by starvation of at least thee million people in Bengal during the Second Great War, in history’s most horrific man-made famine. When the Japanese attacked, the British ran away. They were very clever. They had a wonderful life with bungalows and butlers and cooks and all that, but as soon as the Japanese came, they ran away. And once they got back to India, they sent Gurkhas, Sikhs, Marathas and other Indians to fight the Japanese. This was gladly used by the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere for their anti-British Propaganda, portraying the British as Colonial Slave masters, who used Indian bodies and lives to maintain their colonial tyranny over India, while the Japanese and their allies fought against them for Indian Independence.
In 1939, at the start of the war, the Indian Army had just over 200,000 troops, enough to keep India in chains and the British safe from Indian revolutionaries. In 1940, the army’s size was increased to 1,000,000. Overall, India supplied a total of 2,581,726 army, navy and air force combatants. On top of this, 14 million Indian laborers worked round the clock to keep the war factories and farms running. Thanks to them during the war, India provided 196.7 million tonnes of coal, 6 million tonnes of iron ore and 1.12 million tonnes of steel. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Volume 2, says: “35 per cent of India’s annual cotton textile production, amounting to about 5,000,000,000 yards, went into creating war material.” For example Bengal had a bountiful harvest in 1942, but the British started diverting vast quantities of food grain from India to Britain, contributing to a massive food shortage in the areas comprising West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Bangladesh. The war also distorted the colony’s already broken economic system.
Wartime shortages and supply problems held industry back and caused severe disruptions to the internal market for consumer goods, which culminated in the Bengal Famine of 1943 that claimed more than three million lives. Some placed the real death toll at over seven million, exact numbers would never be known thanks to the war situation and the later Japanese Invasion into Assam and Bengal. During the war, as the threat of a Japanese-Indian National Army (led by Subhas Chandra Bose) invasion of India increased, the British employed a scorched earth policy in eastern India, especially Bengal. The British disabled and impounded all transport in Bengal, including boats, bullock carts, even elephants, to prevent their use by the Japanese. While retreating from India, the British also destroyed vast numbers of aircraft and defense supplies that legally belonged to India. Leading defense analyst Bharat Karnad informs that the Walchandnagar Aircraft Company (the precursor to Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) was contracted to build the B-24 Liberator bombers in Bangalore.
Around two million Indians would fight for England during the war, but at the same time anti-British sentiments and organizations grew in India itself. One of them was Ghandi's non-violent uprising for independence, that combined with a Japanese spy network and uprisings by anti-British and pro-Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere groups. Their uprising in India for independence would lead to the use of 57 British battalions that needed almost two and a half months to regain peace, law and order all over India. Worse the Japanese and the Azad Hind forces under Bose never got the time to help, or support these Indian rebels, despite them having a quit big spy network all over India. This was thanks to the fact that nearly all of those Co-Prosperity Spies and sympathizers were secretly Allied spies or double agents, feeding them false or conflicting information's, so that the Japanese would not use this crucial moment for another push into India. Instead this 27 agents fed the Japanese a lot of false, fictional information about British bases, fortifications and numbers, as well as about the Indian national uprising in 1942/43 that did not ad up and made the Japanese loose a massive opportunity, one they would only find about nearly one year later when their assault into Assam and Benghal would capture some of the British reports about it, as well as free some of the anti-British or outright pro-Japanese rioters and political groups in the region. It was however also partly thanks to Subhas Chandra Bose too, who had some better connections and information's from his Indian sources (like the Arakan Offensive, or the Chindit expeditions into Burma) he simply did not inform the Japanese about as he believed this, as well as the air bridge to China's United Front would then force them to push further, deeper into Assam and Benghal as well of the rest of India, freeing his continent just like he hoped and wished for.
Chapter 686: A tale of Otto Strasser
Chapter 686: A tale of Otto Strasser
Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser (also German: Straßer, born on 10 September 1897 ) was a German politician and an early member of the Nazi Party. Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant "Hitlerite" faction (not to be confused with the later Hitlerists). He formed the Black Front, a group intended to split the Nazi Party and take it from the grasp of Hitler. This group also functioned during his exile as a secret opposition group and returned not directly after the military coup of 1938, but only after Hitler's death during the Second Great War in 1941. The Strasser Brothers brand of National Socialism and later National Monarchism is now known as Strasserism and labeld by them to be Social Nationalism (or later Social National Monarchism) in it's core.
Born at Windsheim in Bavaria, Otto Strasser took an active part in the Forst Great War. On 2 August 1914, he joined the Bavarian Army as a volunteer. He rose through the ranks to lieutenant and was twice wounded. He returned to Germany in 1919 where he served in the Freikorps that put down the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was organized on the principles of workers' councils. At the same time, he also joined the Social Democratic Party. In 1920 he participated in the opposition to the Kapp Putsch. However, he grew increasingly alienated with his party's reformist stance, particularly when it put down a workers' uprising in the Ruhr, and he left the party later that year. In 1925, he joined the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party), in which his brother, Gregor had been a member for several years, and worked for its newspaper as a journalist, ultimately taking it over with his brother. He was focused particularly on the socialist elements of the party's programme and led the party's left faction in northern Germany together with his brother and Joseph Goebbels. His faction advocated support for strikes, nationalisation of banks and industry, and despite acknowledged differences closer ties with the Soviet Union. Some of these policies were opposed by Hitler, who thought they were too radical and too alienating from parts of the German people (that were mainly middle class and Nazi-supporting nationalist industrialists in particular), and the Strasser faction was defeated at the Bamberg Conference (1926), with Joseph Goebbels joining Hitler. Humiliated, he nonetheless, along with his brother Gregor, continued as a leading Left Nazi within the Party, until expelled from the NSDAP by Hitler in 1930.
Following his expulsion, he set up his own party, the Black Front, composed of like-minded former NSDAP members, in an attempt to split the Nazi Party. His party proved unable to counter Hitler's rise to power in 1933, and Strasser spent the years of the Nazi era in exile. The Nazi Left itself was annihilated during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, in which his brother was killed, leaving Hitler as undisputed party leader and able to pacify both industrialists and the military into accepting his new National Socialist regime. In addition to the "Black Front", Strasser at this time headed the Free German Movement outside Germany which sought to enlist the aid of Germans throughout the world in bringing about the downfall of Hitler and his vision of Nazism.
Strasser fled first to Vienna Austria, then to Prague, were he would try to form a continued Strasserist Opposition, attempting to End Hitler's position as Chancelor in the government once and for all. With closer ties between Austria (Austria-Hungary) and Germany Strasser fleed over Switzerland to France out of fear from Hitler getting him arrested and killed inside of Axis Central Powers controlled territory, as Hitler had once declared him Public Enemy Number One" and a price of $500,000 was set on his head. In 1941 after the death of Hitler Strasser returned to Germany, by now a well known figure in the European National Monarchist community, who had actively worked to form Strasserist or Strasserite influenced Parties inside the Axis Central powers, encouraging many former Socialists in Austria-Hungary, Netherlands, France and later other places to rather join Strasserism and thereby left-leaning National Monarchism to change the system from inside by working together for their nation states, instead of becoming traitors of their workers, societies and nations.
Still faithful to many doctrines of National Socialism, Strasser knew how hard it was in Axis Central Powers controlled monarchistic, imperial Europe to form a political movement once again, even with Hitler and the rest of the Nazi's out of the way. Therefore he abandoned his former pro-Soviet stance in favor of the Eastern Crusade and clarified his ideology as Social Nationalism, or Social National Monarchism, emphasizing that they focused on the working class, the foots and pillar of every National Monarchist country and that supporting them, instead of opposing them like Bismark and Hitler had done in the Kulturkampf (Cultural Struggle). Bakc in Bavaria, Munich, Strasser founded the new national and socialist oriented party in 1942 the Sozialistische Nationale Reichspartei (Socialist National Reich Party, SNR SNRP), that would gain some support of former Nazi's, Socialists and even some Communists whose parties were outlawed before under Hitler and the Nazi's or the new German Empire. Advocating for Strasserite Social Nationalism/ National Socialism until his death at 27 August 1974, Otto Strasser claimed to remain a true Social Nationalist, opposing racial ideals and being in support of workers and trade unions. Like Hitler he eliminated all internal opposition in his own party (even if he did so without bloodshed) with the help of his Black Front and the Social National Reichspartei (SNR) won some seats in the 1942 German Election, especially in Bavaria, Saxony, Magdeburg, Hannover, Mecklenburg, Berlin, Merseburg, Chemnitz-Zwickau, Westfahlen and Düsseldorf, former centers of the Nazi, Socialist or Communist Parties. He was supported by Joseph Goebbels (who joined his Socialist National Reich Party) and his daily radio program the Emperor Speaks (German: Kaiseransprache) that had underlying Strasserist ideology and propaganda.
Strasser also played a major role in the German Social Union (a Trade Union/ Workers Union) and with their help he became one of the major forces in the New Kulturkampf (New Culture Struggle) in the 1950ies and the 1960ies in the German Empire. Until then other Strasserite parties had formed in Europe and the Axis Central Power controlled territories, mainly Austria Hungary (Donau National Arbeiterunion/ Danube National Worker's Union were Strasserite parties like the Austrian Social National Party in German-Austria, German-Bohemia and German-Moravia, the Hungarian Social National Arbeiter Partei/ Hungary Social National Worker's Party, the Bohemian Social Nationalists/ Czech Social Nationalists, the Slovakian National Socialists SNS, the mainly polish West Galician Social National Party, the mainly Ukrainian East Galician Social National Party, the mainly Romanian Siebenbürgen Social National Party, the Croatian Social Nationalist Party, the Bosnia and Hercegovina Social National Party and the Serbian and Montenegro Social National Party formed a Strasserite Coalition together). Other Strasserite Axis Central Powers and European Parties included the Baltic Union Party in the United Baltic Duchy, the Netherlands Union Party in the United Netherlands, the Dansk Social National Party, the Social Nationalists in Norwas, the Swedish National Social Party, the French National Popular Party (Nationale Populaire Party) that collaborated alongside the National Popular Party, the Parti Populaire Français, the Francist Movement and the Service d'ordre légionnaire (whose eastern parts later merged with parts of the Netherlands Union Party into the Popular Burgundian Union Party in the Burgundian Order, eastern France and the United Netherlands).
The Ideology of Strasserism (Strasserismus or Straßerismus) is a more radical, mass-action and worker-based form of Nazism or National Monarchism, that opposed Jews and other groups not from a racial, cultrual or religious perspective, but from an economic basis, to achieve a national rebirth. Gregor and Otto Strasser along with Ernst Röhm believed that the electoral victory of the National Socialists had just been the first step. They called for more, for a Secondary Revolution, that aimed for a second revolution to archive worker's rule and national rebirth, a special nationalist form of social revolution and saw Hitler as a betrayal of true national socialists ideals and ideas. The Strasser Brothers had been involved in the creation of the original National Socialist Program of 1920 to “break the shackles of finance capital”. Therefore Strasserism also opposed Jewish finance capitalism, that they saw in contrast to the productive capitalism.
This program was further developed in the 1925 Nationalsozialistische Briefe (National Socialists Letters) were Otto Strasser discussed class conflict, wealth redistribution and his 1930 follow-up Ministersessel oder Revolution (Cabinet Seat or Revolution) where he attacked Hitler for betraying the social aspects of National Socialism and criticized the Führerprinzip (Leader Principle). Strasser called for a guild system, a Reich cooperative chamber to lead the nation's role in economic planning, something he would partly archive during the Second great War with the establishment of the Sozialistische Nationale Reichspartei (Socialist National Reich Party, SNR or SNRP) and the German Social Union (a Trade Union/ Workers Union) a toppling of the elites in favor of the direct rule by the worker, saying Hitler's rise to power had only be a half-revolution they needed to complete. Their anti-capitalist stance opposed courting business and army leaders, but instead called to remove and replace them. This was too extreme for much of the new German Leadership in the German Empire, especially it's aristocratic and military elite. Therefore Strasser redirected his new party in 1942 in a twenty-point program, calling for a “anti-material cultural revolution”, a “Anti-capitalist social revolution” and a “anti-communist workers revolution” opposing both National Socialism as done by Hitler as well as Socialism and Communism.
One that calling for a third Social National Way that would liberate and empower the workers by a democratic, electoral revolution combined with work strikes and protests, not with brutal riots and armed revolution, as Strasser said the military, the democratic and social elements had already done so by ousting the National Socialists under Hitler in 1938. Alternations of distribution of capital and the workers machinery had to be found according to Strasserism, empowering the worker and with it the very base of power to the nation, from were the rest would only grow stronger too. Strasser re-positioned National Socialist and Social Nationalist movements all over Europe until his death, gluing together the syndicalist core of left-wing international and right-wing national socialism inside the Axis Central Powers and forming one of the biggest coalitions in the Axis Central Powers Frankfurt Parliament at the height of the tripartite Great Cold War that followed the Second Great War in the 1950ies. Strasserism even gained some influence in the United States and the Confederate States at that time, were some socialist and nationalist flirted with the idea to join their powers once again, for greater influence and political success.
Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser (also German: Straßer, born on 10 September 1897 ) was a German politician and an early member of the Nazi Party. Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant "Hitlerite" faction (not to be confused with the later Hitlerists). He formed the Black Front, a group intended to split the Nazi Party and take it from the grasp of Hitler. This group also functioned during his exile as a secret opposition group and returned not directly after the military coup of 1938, but only after Hitler's death during the Second Great War in 1941. The Strasser Brothers brand of National Socialism and later National Monarchism is now known as Strasserism and labeld by them to be Social Nationalism (or later Social National Monarchism) in it's core.
Born at Windsheim in Bavaria, Otto Strasser took an active part in the Forst Great War. On 2 August 1914, he joined the Bavarian Army as a volunteer. He rose through the ranks to lieutenant and was twice wounded. He returned to Germany in 1919 where he served in the Freikorps that put down the Bavarian Soviet Republic which was organized on the principles of workers' councils. At the same time, he also joined the Social Democratic Party. In 1920 he participated in the opposition to the Kapp Putsch. However, he grew increasingly alienated with his party's reformist stance, particularly when it put down a workers' uprising in the Ruhr, and he left the party later that year. In 1925, he joined the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party), in which his brother, Gregor had been a member for several years, and worked for its newspaper as a journalist, ultimately taking it over with his brother. He was focused particularly on the socialist elements of the party's programme and led the party's left faction in northern Germany together with his brother and Joseph Goebbels. His faction advocated support for strikes, nationalisation of banks and industry, and despite acknowledged differences closer ties with the Soviet Union. Some of these policies were opposed by Hitler, who thought they were too radical and too alienating from parts of the German people (that were mainly middle class and Nazi-supporting nationalist industrialists in particular), and the Strasser faction was defeated at the Bamberg Conference (1926), with Joseph Goebbels joining Hitler. Humiliated, he nonetheless, along with his brother Gregor, continued as a leading Left Nazi within the Party, until expelled from the NSDAP by Hitler in 1930.
Following his expulsion, he set up his own party, the Black Front, composed of like-minded former NSDAP members, in an attempt to split the Nazi Party. His party proved unable to counter Hitler's rise to power in 1933, and Strasser spent the years of the Nazi era in exile. The Nazi Left itself was annihilated during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, in which his brother was killed, leaving Hitler as undisputed party leader and able to pacify both industrialists and the military into accepting his new National Socialist regime. In addition to the "Black Front", Strasser at this time headed the Free German Movement outside Germany which sought to enlist the aid of Germans throughout the world in bringing about the downfall of Hitler and his vision of Nazism.
Strasser fled first to Vienna Austria, then to Prague, were he would try to form a continued Strasserist Opposition, attempting to End Hitler's position as Chancelor in the government once and for all. With closer ties between Austria (Austria-Hungary) and Germany Strasser fleed over Switzerland to France out of fear from Hitler getting him arrested and killed inside of Axis Central Powers controlled territory, as Hitler had once declared him Public Enemy Number One" and a price of $500,000 was set on his head. In 1941 after the death of Hitler Strasser returned to Germany, by now a well known figure in the European National Monarchist community, who had actively worked to form Strasserist or Strasserite influenced Parties inside the Axis Central powers, encouraging many former Socialists in Austria-Hungary, Netherlands, France and later other places to rather join Strasserism and thereby left-leaning National Monarchism to change the system from inside by working together for their nation states, instead of becoming traitors of their workers, societies and nations.
Still faithful to many doctrines of National Socialism, Strasser knew how hard it was in Axis Central Powers controlled monarchistic, imperial Europe to form a political movement once again, even with Hitler and the rest of the Nazi's out of the way. Therefore he abandoned his former pro-Soviet stance in favor of the Eastern Crusade and clarified his ideology as Social Nationalism, or Social National Monarchism, emphasizing that they focused on the working class, the foots and pillar of every National Monarchist country and that supporting them, instead of opposing them like Bismark and Hitler had done in the Kulturkampf (Cultural Struggle). Bakc in Bavaria, Munich, Strasser founded the new national and socialist oriented party in 1942 the Sozialistische Nationale Reichspartei (Socialist National Reich Party, SNR SNRP), that would gain some support of former Nazi's, Socialists and even some Communists whose parties were outlawed before under Hitler and the Nazi's or the new German Empire. Advocating for Strasserite Social Nationalism/ National Socialism until his death at 27 August 1974, Otto Strasser claimed to remain a true Social Nationalist, opposing racial ideals and being in support of workers and trade unions. Like Hitler he eliminated all internal opposition in his own party (even if he did so without bloodshed) with the help of his Black Front and the Social National Reichspartei (SNR) won some seats in the 1942 German Election, especially in Bavaria, Saxony, Magdeburg, Hannover, Mecklenburg, Berlin, Merseburg, Chemnitz-Zwickau, Westfahlen and Düsseldorf, former centers of the Nazi, Socialist or Communist Parties. He was supported by Joseph Goebbels (who joined his Socialist National Reich Party) and his daily radio program the Emperor Speaks (German: Kaiseransprache) that had underlying Strasserist ideology and propaganda.
Strasser also played a major role in the German Social Union (a Trade Union/ Workers Union) and with their help he became one of the major forces in the New Kulturkampf (New Culture Struggle) in the 1950ies and the 1960ies in the German Empire. Until then other Strasserite parties had formed in Europe and the Axis Central Power controlled territories, mainly Austria Hungary (Donau National Arbeiterunion/ Danube National Worker's Union were Strasserite parties like the Austrian Social National Party in German-Austria, German-Bohemia and German-Moravia, the Hungarian Social National Arbeiter Partei/ Hungary Social National Worker's Party, the Bohemian Social Nationalists/ Czech Social Nationalists, the Slovakian National Socialists SNS, the mainly polish West Galician Social National Party, the mainly Ukrainian East Galician Social National Party, the mainly Romanian Siebenbürgen Social National Party, the Croatian Social Nationalist Party, the Bosnia and Hercegovina Social National Party and the Serbian and Montenegro Social National Party formed a Strasserite Coalition together). Other Strasserite Axis Central Powers and European Parties included the Baltic Union Party in the United Baltic Duchy, the Netherlands Union Party in the United Netherlands, the Dansk Social National Party, the Social Nationalists in Norwas, the Swedish National Social Party, the French National Popular Party (Nationale Populaire Party) that collaborated alongside the National Popular Party, the Parti Populaire Français, the Francist Movement and the Service d'ordre légionnaire (whose eastern parts later merged with parts of the Netherlands Union Party into the Popular Burgundian Union Party in the Burgundian Order, eastern France and the United Netherlands).
The Ideology of Strasserism (Strasserismus or Straßerismus) is a more radical, mass-action and worker-based form of Nazism or National Monarchism, that opposed Jews and other groups not from a racial, cultrual or religious perspective, but from an economic basis, to achieve a national rebirth. Gregor and Otto Strasser along with Ernst Röhm believed that the electoral victory of the National Socialists had just been the first step. They called for more, for a Secondary Revolution, that aimed for a second revolution to archive worker's rule and national rebirth, a special nationalist form of social revolution and saw Hitler as a betrayal of true national socialists ideals and ideas. The Strasser Brothers had been involved in the creation of the original National Socialist Program of 1920 to “break the shackles of finance capital”. Therefore Strasserism also opposed Jewish finance capitalism, that they saw in contrast to the productive capitalism.
This program was further developed in the 1925 Nationalsozialistische Briefe (National Socialists Letters) were Otto Strasser discussed class conflict, wealth redistribution and his 1930 follow-up Ministersessel oder Revolution (Cabinet Seat or Revolution) where he attacked Hitler for betraying the social aspects of National Socialism and criticized the Führerprinzip (Leader Principle). Strasser called for a guild system, a Reich cooperative chamber to lead the nation's role in economic planning, something he would partly archive during the Second great War with the establishment of the Sozialistische Nationale Reichspartei (Socialist National Reich Party, SNR or SNRP) and the German Social Union (a Trade Union/ Workers Union) a toppling of the elites in favor of the direct rule by the worker, saying Hitler's rise to power had only be a half-revolution they needed to complete. Their anti-capitalist stance opposed courting business and army leaders, but instead called to remove and replace them. This was too extreme for much of the new German Leadership in the German Empire, especially it's aristocratic and military elite. Therefore Strasser redirected his new party in 1942 in a twenty-point program, calling for a “anti-material cultural revolution”, a “Anti-capitalist social revolution” and a “anti-communist workers revolution” opposing both National Socialism as done by Hitler as well as Socialism and Communism.
One that calling for a third Social National Way that would liberate and empower the workers by a democratic, electoral revolution combined with work strikes and protests, not with brutal riots and armed revolution, as Strasser said the military, the democratic and social elements had already done so by ousting the National Socialists under Hitler in 1938. Alternations of distribution of capital and the workers machinery had to be found according to Strasserism, empowering the worker and with it the very base of power to the nation, from were the rest would only grow stronger too. Strasser re-positioned National Socialist and Social Nationalist movements all over Europe until his death, gluing together the syndicalist core of left-wing international and right-wing national socialism inside the Axis Central Powers and forming one of the biggest coalitions in the Axis Central Powers Frankfurt Parliament at the height of the tripartite Great Cold War that followed the Second Great War in the 1950ies. Strasserism even gained some influence in the United States and the Confederate States at that time, were some socialist and nationalist flirted with the idea to join their powers once again, for greater influence and political success.
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Two chapters of the general overall ideology and overview of NaMo/ Faro and Coprospism as ideologies will follow tomorrow, after that we will start with a overview of German Parties and what tehy stand for and then you readers can vote on the outcome of the 1942 election in the German Empire. ;D
Kind of... Strasserists are simply playing it safe by not outright opposing national monarchy (not wanting to End liek the Communists, or the Nazi's) even if they hate it in their core as much as capitalism itself. They will be a blend of Social/ Communist Nationalism TTL and the only form either of those will truely survive as a ideology of any sorts later on.