What if Germany had become conventionally Fascist?

I am not so sure about that.

Replacing the Elite of a country is kind of standard procedure for a totalitarian regime.
Well at the time the Prussian aristocracy was one of Hitler's most ardent supporters. Unfortunately they lost the war and Prussia was dissolved.
 
The DNVP peaked at ca. 20% just not enough for establishing a totalitarian regime.

The Nazis peaked at 33% in a right-wing unity ticket. All you need is for DNVP to do a few points better, have some smaller parties under their banner, and you're there.
 

oberdada

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The Nazis peaked at 33% in a right-wing unity ticket. All you need is for DNVP to do a few points better, have some smaller parties under their banner, and you're there.
Actually 37,3% in June '32 and 43,9% in March '33 (so that might not count)

But in 1920 there was still a social democratic president...


I just don't see the DNVP as radical enough to get rid of political opponents the way the Nazis did...
 
Actually 37,3% in June '32 and 43,9% in March '33 (so that might not count)

But in 1920 there was still a social democratic president...


I just don't see the DNVP as radical enough to get rid of political opponents the way the Nazis did...
would the DNVP be more like a Dolfuss than a Hitler, in that case?
 
Yes but a restored monarchy under the DNVP would have been entirely toothless.
Come to think of it, Hugenburg's Germany sounds like a great TL yet to be written.
I tried to write a timeline like that a while ago. People kept poking holes in the plausibility of it and I got tired of it. I have always wanted to rewrite though.
 
I'm not sure if a DNVP Germany would be considered "Fascist" in the Italian sense. More likely, it would have been considered more "reactionary" than "fascist." Still, a DNVP Germany could be the ticket to having a right wing authoritarian regime without going to the extremes of Nazism.

As some pointed out, such a regime would likely be far more Christian than the Nazis, and would likely be more content with establishing a pan-German state rather than a continent spanning empire. Western governments would be far more likely to cooperate with such a regime, especially with the specter of communism and the USSR.

As for the whole Nazi/Socialist thing, even after the purge of the Strasserists, there were still some that paid lip service to the "socialist" part of the NSDAP name, most notably Goebbels. Jews were depicted as being enemies of the working class, and the Nazis even employed socialist language at times. Of course, this doesn't make Nazism socialist. In contrast, I think a DNVP dominated Germany would be explicitly corporatist a la Portugal or Austria, even if their economic policies differed very little from OTL Germany.
 
Assuming Hitler worked out to be a "conventional"; i.e., late 1920s / early 1930s Mussolini-style fascist, the opportunities for comedy riffs on him as Chancellor of Germany are endless. Let's face it: that absurd toothbrush mustache and the ranting with his hair flying all over the place are the stuff of cartoons. Chaplin wouldn't have needed to produce "The Great Dictator"; documentary footage of Hitler would have been more than enough. (Could Germany stand having a chancellor who was the butt of jokes worldwide?)
 
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