WI: Nazi Germany in the 1920s

Mussolini rose to power in the early 1920s. What if Hitler, or another Nazi leader, had managed to do the same in Germany in the 1920s, whether that be the result of a successful Putsch or another method?
 
even if successful Bier-hall Putsch in Munich
I think that the Third Reich would be bankrupt in 1932/33
because the Nazi had no sense of economics or financing

its also possibly that Hitler shot himself in 1935
in his Reichfürherbunker in Munich, while the ww2 allies forces try to conquer it...
 
German economy breaks down during the Great Depression. Everybody blames Hitler. He can star a war to distract his people, but as Plumber and Michel Van said, there would be no appeasement. And German Army would be much, much weaker. If Hitler is mad enough to try, he gets beaten by the French, British and Poles.
 
Even if he did get into power earlierthan in otl, I don't see him trying to throw his weight around. He was a shrewd man, and only rolled the dice when he knew his chances were good. I believe that in the beginning he would appeal to the conservative desire for order and discipline, play along with the West for a while and build up a reputation - "here is a man we can do business with."

Weimar had a secret treaty with Russia, so I think Hitler would continue with that. Someone else posted that he would be blamed for the Great Depression - I think a more likely thing is something along the lines of: "look - here is proof of what I have been saying all along. The Jews want to ruin your lives and take all your money!" It might even be harder for Hitler to purge the SA, but I don't know.
 
How did Mussolini's Italy fare in the Depression? Or, if not well, how well could it have fared (as I'm not sure to Mussolini's competence)?
 
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Mussolini rose to power in the early 1920s. What if Hitler, or another Nazi leader, had managed to do the same in Germany in the 1920s, whether that be the result of a successful Putsch or another method?

You´d need one or more PODs to do that.
If wikipedia is right, Mussolini´s fascist party had more than 200000 party members in 1921. And even more to the point the Italian King (as head of state and the armed forces) invited Mussolini to form a new government in 1922.

Hitler and his party were a tiny party till the Great Depression 1929/30. No way that either Ebert (President till 1925) or Hindenburg would have asked the leader of such a tiny party to form a government.
And regarding a putch. Well, Hitler tried it in 1923. The police shot back and the putsch failed.
Quite simply put Hitler and the Nazis- unlike Mussolini - in the 1920s didn´t have the mass base to either win elections or led a successful putsch.

What might have been possible maybe is a successful conservative / nationalist / monarchist putsch. But such a putsch wouldn´t have led to a Nazi Germany.
 
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