The People's Führer

uhhh I haven't looked at this in about a year, so to be honest I forgot. But I see it as he is anti-semnite, but he is also a good communist.
 
Ah. So, like Stalin in his later years, I guess.
Well, despite the long leave of absence from this thread, you should continue the TL. It's a good one.
 

Neroon

Banned
so to be honest I forgot.
Consider yourself to be reminded then!

But I see it as he is anti-semnite,
Well despite the European Left liking to pretend otherwise, anti-semitism was pretty wide-spread amongst communists as well. In OTL Hitler talked about the Jews stabbing Germany in the back during WW1 when talking to a right-wing audience. And talked about Judeo-Capitalism keeping them poor when talking to a left-wing audience.
 
The First shots are fired
The Weirmer Republic was on its last legs in 1933. The depression was hitting hard, the government was fractionalized, and the coalition government of President Hindenburg seemed as ineffectual as ever before. All of the emergency powers enacted which let von Papen make, or break legislation as he saw fit where lifted for what Hindenburg called, “A chance to show the Bolsheviks how to rule without the bayonet.” The DKP held 36% of the seats in parliament, and yet the coalition formed prior to Hitler becoming Chancellor had fallen apart. However President Hindenburg was of the opinion, which was most likely influenced by von Papen, that the current government should be maintained in order to cut the Communists off before any harm could be done.

The government was made up of various coalitions. The Social Democrats (SPD) pulled together the German Democratic Party (DDP), and the German Centre Party (CP) under the leadership of Kurt Schumacher. Hitler had created a coalition between the DKP, German Peasants' Party (DBP), and Bavarian Peasants' League (BB). Surprisingly the German National People's Party (DNVP), Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party (CNBL), and the German Veterans for Victory Party (DVS) made a informal coalition of their own and claimed that they represented the German nationalist movement. These groups, upon closer inspection seem to be a strange section of Italian Fascism. All wanted a strong centralized government, saw the military as the key to success, and the parties even wanted to reverse the harsh terms of the Versailles Treaty. However who, and how to create these changes differed to such a degree numerous books have been written upon the short lived German Fascist movement.

Schumacher tried on numerous occasions to get a vote of no-confidence in, and dissolve the current parliament, as well as get “the Austrian Bolshevik’ out of power. However the vote never reached the 2/3‘s needed to pass. The Social Democrat Coalition only had 36 % of parliament, with the DKP coalition holding 36% as well. The remaining 27 % needed for a majority was held by the Nationalists, who under the leadership Alfred Hugenberg of refused to play along, in fear of losing what power they held to the moderates.

This in no way is a sign of Hitler and the DKP having an easy time in power. Out of forty-nine bills, and regulations that the DKP tried to pass, two did. A call to start public works projects by Hitler was met with stern opposition from the major corporations.

Gustav Krupp, of the Hoesch-Krupp, was the most vocal, he like many Western businessmen sat in fear of the bloody revolution, which could engulf Germany much like Russia. On April 3rd, 1933 Hitler spoke to parliament asking for approval of his plan to create a national workforce, paid for by the government, to create a series of . Krupp used every connection he had to destroy such a project, declaring it “the first step to Revolution.”

On the 16th of April Hitler was prepared to announce the project, but at the last moment Krupp along with IG Farben, Bremer Vulkan, as well was AEG had threatened to fire all employees and close their businesses for a week if any such project went through. The Social Democrats threatened to call for a no-confidence vote if Hitler allowed such a thing to happen. With the DNVP looking to agree to such an action Hitler was forced to back down.

While to many within the government, and quite a few DKP party members, saw this as a defeat, the majority of Germany came to support Hitler’s actions. Albert Grzesinski made sure every newspaper from the DKP’s Die Stimme vom Arbeiter, the SPD’s Berlin Leser, to the DNVP’s Veteranen Täglich learned about the backroom deals involving Hitler and the German elite. Hitler looked to be the champion of the German worker trying to create jobs, yet at the same time willing to back down to save them.

Hitler to quell the dissenting voices within the DKP announced that Ernst Thälmann would be given more power within the party. Ever since 1929 when Hitler took control of the DKP, he found himself a valued and well-liked disciple in Thälmann. Despite the age difference Thälmann felt that Hitler had the people’s interest at heart, and was a true example of a Socialist. As will be seen later the events of 1934 will cement such beliefs in Thälmann.

The German political scene continued like this until late August. In May Hitler recommended increasing and expanding the welfare system, Alfred Hugenberg refused to vote yes to it. June, had farmers rejoicing at the proposal to default all loans, and extend credit for new farming equipment, only to have such hopes crushed when Aulendorf, the largest manufacturer of tractors publicly refused to accept credit from the Government. Around July parliament voted against. Hitler’s call to recognize the Soviet Union who could sell material at a cheaper rates then the West. Hitler would show plans that from the people’s perspective seemed like a life saver, more jobs, more money, more freedom seemed within the average German’s grasp. Yet historians currently argue that such plans where unlikely to succeed in any way, due to the limitations of the Germany economic system at the time. However what is to be focused upon is not Hitler failing, but a grander scheme being laid out.

Long before Hitler was made Chancellor he was contemplating how to overthrow the Weimer Republic while keeping much of Germany intact. Thälmann had the idea that seemed to satisfy Severing and his Volksjager Deutschlanders (VJD) bloodlust, and Hitler’s need for keeping Germany strong. The plan was so that once the Revolution began within a week all major opposition would be arrested leaving the DKP the sole coherent force within Germany. Hitler would announce the dissolution of the government, followed by Lanzer arresting opposition party leaders, and Severing would march the VJD to the major cities streets to maintain order. Hitler was preparing a Revolution in Germany. It was to be bloodless, for in his words:

The German farmer wants to live a happy prosperous life. The same can be said of the steel worker, the clerk, and the schoolteacher. No German wants to fight his own people. I have shown them the path to better lives, richer lives. It is the moneylenders, and the capitalists who lead them astray.​

The German army was 100,000 strong, taken into account with the Social Democrat’s and the various Nationalist parties street fighters that would mean close to 1.5 million men against Hitler and the DKP. Severing was not fearful of a civil war the VJD had close to three million members, with half a million Redbands ready to take the fight to the streets. On January 14, 1934 Hitler made an announcement to the German people. Standing inside parliament, motion picture cameras capturing every movement, he spoke of the future:

The German people need strength once more. To the West we are forced nearly every day to be reminded of our shameful defeat at the hands of those who we entrusted to lead us. Today I see the same shameful actions. The workers need to be lead, they need to be shown the way to a better life. That is not occurring, we bicker amongst ourselves, and think only of the here and now. We must think of the future, of ways to uplift the common German. To grant him the power to provide for his family, and live a good German life. With this in mind I am calling for the creation of a national highway system.

Hitler went onto say how such a highway would create more jobs, all over Germany, it would require material from all German factories, it was to be just the shot in the arm the economy needed. As so often before the proposal was to be defeated, but that was not for many months. Hitler was celebrated in the newspapers for such an idea, while at the same time criticized for wanting to creating a system, which would almost be exclusively used by the upper classes.

Grzesinski, under Hitler’s orders begin a massive campaign to champion the project, and criticize any whom where against it. An opinion poll in March 1934 shows 69.6% of the population was in favor of a highway. This is quite remarkable as the DKP only received 33% of the vote a year ago. When April 6th, arrived parliament had a vote upon the highway. It was amended several times by various parties. In the end it called for the construction of a highway, funds for various other government offices, along with increasing the military. Rudolf Breitscheid (SPD) spoke out against any legislation, which would so, clearly violate the Versailles Treaty.

Breitscheid was a staunch anti-communist, but was far from being a Nationalist. He was quite fond of dismembering the plans of Hitler, and his DKP. It was no surprise that once Schumacher and Breitscheid, heard about all DKP parliament members taking May 1st off, they knew it was their chance to oust Hitler. The fact that this played right into the DKP’s plans was apparently lost on everyone.

On May 1st VJD men walked down the streets of Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, and Frankfurt, Hitler was said to be somewhere within Berlin enjoying the parades with his Paula. Paula Hitler had moved to Berlin less then a year ago to work as a secretary for one of the DKP party offices. Around 11am that day, with the SPD coalition holding a majority, Breitscheid called for a no confidence vote against Hitler. With only one DKP representitive in the room, it was assured the vote would pass. At 1pm Hitler was taken out of power, and the papers in Germany tripped over themselves trying to get their evening editions out first. Surprisingly the DKP paper Die Stimme vom Arbeiter and its two regional papers Pflügen Sie und Stahl and Roter Kämpfer had the story out by 1:30pm. At 2pm everyone in Germany had learned the fate of the popular Chancellor.

At 2:17pm in Lanzer’s apartment in Pankow, Berlin, Hitler sat back drinking coffee, and talking about the weather, when the phone rang. Lanzer answered it, and was reported to have smiled telling Hitler, “We can start now.”
 
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bump. Another TL I wouldn't mind reading til the end.

With a communist hitler, I've thought that the we might end up with the National Bolshevik Flag (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik) as the flag for Germany if Hitler still ends up being nationalist and desiring the colours of the old black-white-red tricolour for Germany.
 

hinotoin

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Fenwick if you ever get the cahnce please countinue this, it's an amazing read and I have seen this story in many forums. So if you have the time please give this another shot, we would love to see the story go on. Please let this story move foward, we all want it to go on :D
 
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