What if the Social Democrats rebuilt Germany?

[Gukpard]

OTL Germany was rebuilt on a christian democrat fashion with social liberal tendencies, as the government kept social conservatism with worker's rights and adopted economical ordoliberalism.

On another hand, we had the growing dirigism on most of the third world, with places like Korea, Japan, latim america, and even some first world countries like France adopting economic interventionism.

Assuming the SPD is elected instead of Adenauer CDU, and Germany goes for economic dirigism, how would Germany develop? Also, how would their Bundeswehr look like?

 

[Vinization]

For starters, this means that the first West German chancellor would be Kurt Schumacher. I doubt that he, as someone who spent more than a decade in multiple concentration camps and had his health permanently crippled because of that (dying at the young age of 56) would allow the pardon of hundreds of thousands of Nazi criminals, which would have all sorts of effects. For starters, Kurt Georg Kiesinger (a former member of the NDSAP, even if not a very active one) probably wouldn't become chancellor. West Germany could also have a stronger presidency, since Schumacher was in favor of that. The Oder-Neisse line would also be recognized by Bonn earlier.

Could we end up having an united, neutral Germany in the 1950s?

Most importantly, what sort of POD could make the SPD win in 1949? One of Adenauer's closer friends/allies is revealed to have been an active former Nazi, perhaps?

EDIT: Also, why isn't this in After 1900?

 

[Gukpard]

For starters, this means that the first West German chancellor would be Kurt Schumacher. I doubt that he, as someone who spent more than a decade in multiple concentration camps and had his health permanently crippled because of that (dying at the young age of 56) would allow the pardon of hundreds of thousands of Nazi criminals, which would have all sorts of effects. For starters, Kurt Georg Kiesinger (a former member of the NDSAP, even if not a very active one) probably wouldn't become chancellor. West Germany could also have a stronger presidency, since Schumacher was in favor of that. The Oder-Neisse line would also be recognized by Bonn earlier.

Could we end up having an united, neutral Germany in the 1950s?

Most importantly, what sort of POD could make the SPD win in 1949? One of Adenauer's closer friends/allies is revealed to have been an active former Nazi, perhaps?

EDIT: Also, why isn't this in After 1900?

Yes, I'm a idiot and posted on the wrong area, and there is no admin online now to move it.

Edit: I think we can give Kiesinger some slack, since according to wikipedia:
"During the controversies of 1966, the magazine Der Spiegel unearthed a Memorandum dated 7 November 1944 (six months before the end of the war in Europe) in which two colleagues denounced to SS chief Heinrich Himmler a conspiracy including Kiesinger that was allegedly propagating defeatism. They accused Kiesinger specifically of hampering anti-Jewish actions within his department. "

 

[Vinization]

Can you perhaps copy-paste this thread? You could ask a question related to that in the Help forum.

Also, Kiesinger's past membership of the NDSAP would still be profoundly embarassing to him, even if he wasn't an active member. He might not become president of the Bundesrat or minister-president of Baden-Wurttemberg with a more thorough or longer lasting denazification policy.

 

[Gukpard]

Can you perhaps copy-paste this thread? You could ask a question related to that in the Help forum.

Also, Kiesinger's past membership of the NDSAP would still be profoundly embarassing to him, even if he wasn't an active member. He might not become president of the Bundesrat or minister-president of Baden-Wurttemberg with a more thorough or longer lasting denazification policy.

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