What if Hitler wasn't as extreme?

Starforce

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So lets say, in this alternate timeline, Hitler isn't against the jews, or would advocate for the mass killing of minorities, but would still have an extreme hatred against the communists, and the forces of Britain in France. Instead of harnessing his hatred of Jews, and harnessing his hate of those he didn't deem 'Aryan', what if he was more sensible, what if he just didn't have any specific thoughts on 'non-Aryans', but still had an extreme hatred of the communists, allowing him to rise to power?
 

CalBear

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He wouldn't HAVE risen to power. The whole toxic mix of his beliefs were what make the Nazi Party work.
 
You would have to find another Way to stand out and draw attention. The German political right was quite crowded in the 1920s. Hitler’s Way is not the only way possible, but how to stand out and get ruthless followers needs to be defined.
 
He wouldn't HAVE risen to power. The whole toxic mix of his beliefs were what make the Nazi Party work.

Hitler had to present a narrative that explained Germany's national humiliation post WWI, and had to supply a scapegoat for same, and also had to make a believable promise on how he was going to make Germany great again. So I think at least the anti Jewish and international banker thing is mandatory for baking his cake. Thing is, there's an awful lot of range available in anti-Jewishness that'd still make the whole thing work. Tsarist Russia levels of antisemitism probably would've sufficed. I think that's why so many Jews who had the means to leave didn't. They assumed it was likely just to be another pogrom like many others historically, bad sure, but not a reason to uproot hundreds of years of familial roots over. Anti-communism was a pretty good support builder at the time, people were terrified of what had happened in a lot of places in the 1920s, even when they didn't have the specific details yet in some cases, but it wasn't enough for a good all-encompassing national narrative.
 
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