John Fredrick Parker
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Given the past few posts focus on Goering, I have to say I'm skeptical he would be in any position to rise to power -- remember, he was pretty much an SA foot soldier at the time of the putsch. For that matter, so was Himmler, and Goebbels had only very recently come in contact with the party.
If anyone's going to take over the movement after Hitler's death, it will be either Hess or (much more likely) Ernst Röhm -- who, as someone significantly to the left of Hitler would have a much tougher time making alliances with the rightists and junkers (to say nothing of the difficulties his homosexuality could raise)...
If anyone's going to take over the movement after Hitler's death, it will be either Hess or (much more likely) Ernst Röhm -- who, as someone significantly to the left of Hitler would have a much tougher time making alliances with the rightists and junkers (to say nothing of the difficulties his homosexuality could raise)...