WI: Czech National Fascist League overthrew the Czech governement in 1933?

Radola Gajda was leader of the NOF and a hero of the Czechoslovak legions during the first world war and collapse of the Russian Empire. The Czech Fascists were mainly based on Italian Fascism and rather anti-German. Apparently they boasted several hundred thousand members at its peak, and Gajda was until 1931 still an officer in the Czechoslovakian Army.

To top it off apparently a coup was aborted by Brno police in 1933, which had the cooperation of some Slovak far-right paramilitary groups aswell as the NOF presumably with the object of placing Gajda in charge.

What if the coup either goes as planned or Gajda is not discharged from the Army in 1931 and he leads a coup in 1933 with the cooperation of far right Slovak groups, what occurs? I imagine they would have very good relations with VF Austria and Fascist Italy. While having poor relations with Germany and perhaps Poland. Assuming the coup is a success how does this affect the interwar? I could imagine Dolfuss, Gajda, and Mussolini forming an anti-German alliance. ITTL I don't see a way that the Czechs, if Germany pressured them for the Sudetenland would give up without a fight like they did in OTL.
 
I think 1926 was the best year for a Fascist coup (or perhaps countercoup if the "Castle" attempted a coup); see my post at https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...le-coup-rightist-fascist-counter-coup.311492/ By 1933, the Czech Fascists were long past their peak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fascist_Community
All right, the year it self is mostly irrelevant and I was only using that as an example.

If in 1926 Radola Gajda is Fascist Dictator of Czechoslovakia, what occurs?

I imagine that things will proceed outside of Czechoslovakia mostly as OTL. Until we get to the question of the Anschluss, while Gajda was anti-German if he has good relations with Austria he can support Fascist Austria against resurgent Germany hoping that with both Austria and Czechoslovakia and presumably Italy, Nazi Germany will be unable to act aggressively against either. Which leaves Hitler to contemplate some other action to expand. Perhaps he asks for the corridor in 1937 or 1938 instead of Austria and the Sudetenland. This probable war with Poland could likely be a German defeat, though I think Germany would eventually win depending on the level of Soviet support. Or Hitler doesn't invade Poland at all, and his regime collapses due to failure to expand and economic collapse due to rapid rearmament.

If Gajda is against Austria and does nothing against the Anschluss I imagine the Sudetenland crisis will happen around the same time as OTL. Gajda would certainly not give in to the Germans nor would he make a deal with Poland. While Italy is likely to support him, it is unlikely to materialize into military support until the Czechs have shown that theirs is not a lost cause. IOTL The Czech Army and Air Force was already extremely well equipped and was well trained, ITTL I imagine it would be better equipped and trained. After all Fascist Generalissimo dictators tend to prioritize that sort of thing. I imagine Germany would attack, be repulsed at the Czech fortifications, Italy might intervene, the Czechs might counterattack, culminating in some sort of Oster Conspiracy. Unless Poland and Germany both attack Czechoslovakia which to me seems unlikely unless Hitler suddenly became exponentially more competent at diplomacy.
 

CaliGuy

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If Gajda is against Austria and does nothing against the Anschluss I imagine the Sudetenland crisis will happen around the same time as OTL. Gajda would certainly not give in to the Germans nor would he make a deal with Poland. While Italy is likely to support him, it is unlikely to materialize into military support until the Czechs have shown that theirs is not a lost cause. IOTL The Czech Army and Air Force was already extremely well equipped and was well trained, ITTL I imagine it would be better equipped and trained. After all Fascist Generalissimo dictators tend to prioritize that sort of thing. I imagine Germany would attack, be repulsed at the Czech fortifications, Italy might intervene, the Czechs might counterattack, culminating in some sort of Oster Conspiracy. Unless Poland and Germany both attack Czechoslovakia which to me seems unlikely unless Hitler suddenly became exponentially more competent at diplomacy.
Wouldn't a German attack in Czechoslovakia in 1938 have caused France and maybe Britain to go to war against Germany, though?
 
Wouldn't a German attack in Czechoslovakia in 1938 have caused France and maybe Britain to go to war against Germany, though?
They didn't IOTL, and that was a Czechoslovak democracy. Not a Fascist Czechoslovakia. If there was war economic sanctions would likely have been an option. However I see no reason for France and Britain to go to war with Germany in 1938 because they attacked Fascist Czechoslovakia.
 

CaliGuy

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They didn't IOTL, and that was a Czechoslovak democracy. Not a Fascist Czechoslovakia. If there was war economic sanctions would likely have been an option. However I see no reason for France and Britain to go to war with Germany in 1938 because they attacked Fascist Czechoslovakia.
Didn't Czechoslovakia willingly capitulate to Nazi Germany in 1938 in our TL, though?
 
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