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This is a spin-off from the ongoing Weimar Republic Survives to the Present project.

In that, we are positing no Kapp Putsch. Two immediate results in that timeline is that Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck remains in the Reichswehr, but Adolph Hitler is ratted out a few days later by a Nazi sympathizer as an Army spy. Lettow-Vorbeck rises to high position in the Reichswehr over the next decade, and in 1933 is elected president of a more stable Weimar Republic. Adolph Hitler, no longer trusted by the German right wing, goes home to Austria and becomes involved with the Pan-Germanic wing of the Heimwehr. In the Weimar Republic Survives to the Present project, Austria in 1933 or 1934 erupts into a three way civil war between the clericist Austrofascist Dolfuss group, the Hitlerite Pan-Germanic Heimwehr group, and the Socialist-Communist group centered in Vienna. But WI instead, Hitler was more successful in Austria as he had been in Germany OTL, and instead of Civil War, in 1933 he took over Austria. Lettow-Vorbeck despised Hitler and the Nazis in OTL, and that will still hold in this world. Hitler despises the Republic as well.

So, in 1933, The Austrian Third Reich under der Fuerher, Adolf Hitler arises next door to the German Weimar Republic with Reichspraesident Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. What happens?
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