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So just finished reading "The Bloody White Baron" and found it a fascinating look into the adventures of a fanatic. This is entirely hypothetical, but let's presume that somehow Ungern manages to escape Soviet capture and somehow ends up in Germany (according to the book, his plan was to go to Tibet, but let's assume that like OTL this doesn't go well or is planned for a later excursion).

I sincerely doubt he could have had a major impact on history, but I am fascinated by the thought of how he would have interacted with the Nazis.

Theoretically, the Nazis had a lot of things that Ungern would have liked. They loved their sense of spirit and beleived materialism was decadent. Theosophist related organisations held major sway in Nazi Germany leading to fascination with certain eastern cultures like Tibet. They were militarist, rabidly anti-semetic, anti-bolshevik and beleived in an apocalyptic war to reclaim the heart of the west, something that Ungern too would have strongly identified with (although he beleived acording to the book that this would come from the east).

Likewise, Ungern Von Sternberg could have been a major poster boy for the Nazi ideal in an odd sense. Ethnically German, he was a warrior who had dedicated years of his life crusading against the Bolsheviks (having Crusader ancestry too), a crusade ended by being "stabbed in the back" just as the Germans had been in WW1.

On the other hand, it would be easy for anyone to point out that Ungern had fought against the Germans in WW1 in favour of Slavs, and from his perspective the Nazis were ultimately Republicans to a man who seemed to have practically held Monarchism above God.

So. If he survived and somehow ended up in germany, how do you think he would have gotten on with the Nazis?
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