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Mrstrategy

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what if during the elections in Germany 1932 and 1993 there was a bloc of parties against the Nazi would it stop Hitler?
 

tenthring

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what if during the elections in Germany 1932 and 1993 there was a bloc of parties against the Nazi would it stop Hitler?

1) You need a different KPD. The SPD and KPD were at complete loggerheads, mainly because the KPD was an actual Stalinist party.
2) The Catholic Center Party opposes the enabling act.
 

Cook

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what if during the elections in Germany 1932 and 1933 there was a bloc of parties against the Nazi would it stop Hitler?

The Popular Front coalitions of France and Spain, comprising the Socialists and Communists, were formed specifically to prevent the political victory by fascism in those countries following Hitler’s success in Germany. The Communists in France and Spain did not abandon their criticism of the Socialists, nor did they cease alignment with Moscow, (indeed, it was from Moscow that they received instructions to unite with the Socialists), it was simply recognised that the rising power of extreme-right parties posed an existential threat such that their rivals on the left never would. The problem is that whereas by 1934 the Socialists and Communists of France and Spain had seen what happened in Germany, and could adjust their thinking accordingly, in 1932 Hitler only posed a new and theoretical threat, while the Socialists and Communists were still living out a bitter feud that had started in the final months of 1918 with the Spartacus uprising in Germany, and the coups and attempted coups in Russia.

There was, however, potential for an earlier end to the Third Period and beginning of the Popular Front period; Joseph Stalin had appointed Maxim Litvinov as People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union in 1930. Litvinov firmly believed in the League of Nations concept of Collective Security, something that he had in common with all of the European Socialist parties, and of course was at odds with the voices of fascism on the continent; if Litvinov had been able to persuade Stalin that a tactical alliance with the socialists internationally was in the interests of the Soviet Union, by strengthening the League, Collective Security generally and further enhancing the Soviet Union’s reintegration into the international community, then Comintern aligned parties across Europe would have been instructed to support alliances with their ‘Socialist brothers and sisters’ against the rise of fascism generally, including in Germany. Such an approach by the Communists would not immediately have been welcomed, but by 1932, when the threat posed by Hitler was very real, the German Socialists would have welcomed a ceasefire and an alliance with their rivals on the left.

Reduced infighting between Socialists and Communists would have probably resulted in improved electoral results for both, but in all probability they would have still needed further support from one or more of the other parties closer to the centre of the political spectrum to form government with a workable majority in the Reichstag.
 
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what if during the elections in Germany 1932 and 1993 there was a bloc of parties against the Nazi would it stop Hitler?

Very likely a KPD-SPD alliance (which incidentally would be very far from having a majority in the Reichstag) would just scare the middle and upper classes into supporting Hitler even more than they did in OTL.
 
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