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What if …. Hitler gets killed in April 1932 assasination
Due to a presidential decree public campaign events until and during the easter time were forbidden, so only „closed“ events with invited guests ( but still at locations as Sportpalast maybe ?). Therefore it was a quite short campaigning time.(btw, does anybody has a list of these venets during that time and when and where Hitler apeared ?).
At some moment during this campaigning Hitler gets killed in an assasination.
I think of two possible ways this could have been achieved :
a massive explosion during one of these election events (similar to what Georg Elser did Nov. 1939 only at a location in Berlin, maybe Sportpalast)
a car drive-by with subguns and handgrenades while Hitler leaves the Kaiserhof on his way to one of the election events (similat to what OC did on Rathenau, maybe not only one car but two driving by or similar)
Possible perpetrators :
a communist splinter (or perhaps not soo small splinter ?) group cause there is a quite a possibility in Hitler succeeding over Hindenburg
Members of former OC under Hermann Erhardt to finally knocking out that crazy austrian whimp … cause there is a quite a possibility in Hitler succeeding over Hindenburg (Erhardt just „refounded“ it as „Gefolgschafts e.V.“ in dezember 1931)
What do you think might be its consequences ?
For the Nazi-party
For the goverment at that time
For the further development of germany
Some things I would like you to consider on answersing :
regarding the goverment :
Brüning at that time is still in high favor by Hindenburg and
backed by Wilhelm Groener who had still more power over Hindenburg (who owes him a lot due to the developments during 1918/1919) and the Reichswehr than Schleicher (his „star“ is still just rising wiht the old man, and the Reichswehr generals never really liked Schleicher)
regarding the Nazis :
Himmler and SS are still small and totally dependant on Hitler, a blck drop in the brown ocean
the SD has just been founded and Heydrich is only starting to build it
Gregor Strasser (not the „nationalbolshevistic“ Otto Strasser) controls the party almost completly, what even by Strassers internal opponents was admitted (SA was already the pre-military militia Röhm was always dreaming of beside the party, not anymore really part of it)
Goebbels was just a worsipping appendix of Hitler without much (if any) power inside the party