What if, instead of Nazism, a more Mussolini-like Fascist party took power in Germany? Obviously, they wouldn't have the racial policies and ideas of the Nazis, but what else do you think would change?
Nazism is Fascism.
Yes but a restored monarchy under the DNVP would have been entirely toothless.I think the German National People's Party (DNVP) could work as a possible fascist but not Nazi party. But the party was monarchist, so they likely would have tried to reinstate the Kaiser.
Some more possible differences:What if, instead of Nazism, a more Mussolini-like Fascist party took power in Germany? Obviously, they wouldn't have the racial policies and ideas of the Nazis, but what else do you think would change?
Some more possible differences:
1. Rather than being ambivalent or outright hostile to Christianity like the Nazis, the German Fascists would encourage it.
2. The German monarchy is probably back, albeit with little to no power.
3. A more capitalist/corporatist economic policy not the socialist economics we got from out TL's Nazis.
4. Jewish policy is less gas chambers and more Jim Crow plus emigration being heavily encouraged.
5. Pan Germanism and destroying the Soviet Union is the foreign policy goal of Germany, not the destruction of the western allies and the complete annihilation of Slavic peoples.
In fact, this fascist Germany will receive much more goodwill from the rest of the world than the Nazis. Britain and France may even ally with Germany when they invade the USSR. Poland to is a possible ally if the Danzig situation can be resolved peacefully.
Would Danzig (and other German regions outside Germany) even be a point of contention with a Germany that isn't as ethno-linguistically focused as the Nazis?Poland to is a possible ally if the Danzig situation can be resolved peacefully.
Better change the title to "Vanilla/Mussolini Style Fascism" to avoid confusion.
How's that?
I don't think necessarily they would ally with Germany straight away (although I do imagine Fascism would be much more popular and accepted as a legit form of government here than in our timeline, with Fascist parties in countries like the UK and the United States being more powerful and influential here than in OTL) since Germany would still be breaking the Treaty of Versailles by building its military forces back up and (possibly) reclaiming lost territory. That being said, I can see relations with Fascist Italy being MUCH more stable here than in OTL, and with Francoist Spain also if he still wins the Spanish Civil War here.
Handing control over the economy to massive private corporations is socialist...?3. A more capitalist/corporatist economic policy not the socialist economics we got from out TL's Nazis.
Handing control over the economy to massive private corporations is socialist...?
Handing control over the economy to massive private corporations is socialist...?
The Nazi position is interesting. It has shades of what could pass as "socialism", which in itself is poorly defined.Just like banning trade unions.
So literally the opposite of socialism? Sounds very anti-worker power to me...It is when those corporations are being handled by the government (in which their leadership has representation) for the (alleged) benefit of society as a whole. Corpritisim is the Enlightened Despotism of economic policies: the elites acting on behalf of the poor uneducated masses "for their own good"
Mussolini would disagree. The key element to Nazism is Anti Semitism. This is not inherent to Italian Fascism, or its most successful foreign imitator, Peronism. As some posters have already said Fascism would be somewhat better positioned to secure collaborationist allies and supporters in eastern Europe, and would waste less time on killing people who were patriotic Germans of the wrong race or .religion. Still not a nice place to live, but not whack-job suicidal. Of course that might mean it survived much much longer than crazy AdolfNazism is Fascism.