What would a Strasserite Nazi Germany have looked like?

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Had Adolf Hitler been killed in 1923, and had the Strasser brothers became the new leaders of the Nazi Party and managed to get to power just like Hitler did in our TL, what would a Nazi Germany led by them have looked like?

Indeed, how exactly would it be similar and different from our TL's Third Reich? Specifically, what exactly would be its direction in terms of domestic policy, foreign policy, economic policy, social policy, et cetera?

Any thoughts on this?
 
What I mean is that Strasserism becomes a second way on the Extreme Left rather than an economically agnostic racist party that attracts disaffected right wingers (like the Prussian monarchists then and like alt-right or the fringe parties in Europe).

One possible butterfly is far greater Prussian opposition to Strasserism due to it being actually left. Conceivably the 1933 analogue ends in Civil War rather than a fait accompli.

The Right would end up looking a lot more like authoritarian monarchist states like Saudi Arabia, Stuart Restorationists, Bourbon Restorationists, Prussian aristocratic parties, Tsarists, or even a neo-Papal states Italy.

The biggest difference between the far right of TTL and OTL is that there would not be a populist element at all.

Politically, socialism and social democracy would either be much stronger movements (in the event of an alt-WWII with a joint Left Axis victorious) or much weaker than OTL due to being discredited much the way ultra-right fascist states have thanks to Nazis and Imperial Japan.
 
Had Adolf Hitler been killed in 1923, and had the Strasser brothers became the new leaders of the Nazi Party and managed to get to power just like Hitler did in our TL, what would a Nazi Germany led by them have looked like?

Indeed, how exactly would it be similar and different from our TL's Third Reich? Specifically, what exactly would be its direction in terms of domestic policy, foreign policy, economic policy, social policy, et cetera?

Any thoughts on this?


No holocaust would have happened, as the
Strassers did not share in Hitler's intense
(to put it mildly)anti-semitism. I also kind of
doubt they would have attacked Russia, as I
doubt they agreed with Hitler that Germany
had to get "living space" @ Russia's expense. They probably, though, would have
been intensely anti- English & anti-French
(those two countries having been Germany's
main enemies in WWI IOTL). Where that
would have led I don't know.
 
More than that I believe the Strasserists argued for an alliance with the USSR.

Which would have made a great deal of
sense, especially if Germany could then
have, as they did IOTL, ally themselves
with Mussolini's Italy(I know, they really
weren't that strong- but throughout the
thirties Britan & France overestimated
Italy's strength). IOTL from 1936-1939
Hitler was of course able to wring a great
deal out of Britan & France with only Italy
by his side. Can you imagine what a
Germany- Italy- Russia trio could have
done?
 
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Italy doesn't join that and instead swings hard to join France and England along with Poland.

You almost certainly butterfly appeasement, because the combo of a Soviet-German alliance is an existential threat. In addition, you likely see a leftist/Republican Spain.
 
Italy doesn't join that and instead swings hard to join France and England along with Poland.

You almost certainly butterfly appeasement, because the combo of a Soviet-German alliance is an existential threat. In addition, you likely see a leftist/Republican Spain.

But why doesn't Italy join?
 
Because Mussolini detested communists and the Strasseites have just shown themselves to be a communist sect.
Mussolini didn't even particularly like the Nazis IOTL much less these Nazis.

OK, gotcha. But I wonder- if he thought
a Strasseite Germany looked like it would
be a strong state- if he would have swallowed his dislike of Communists &
joined Germany anyway(or maybe I've
just so used to Hitler & Mussolini being
almost joined @ the hip that I'm just
not taking other factors in this ATL into
account).
 
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