Re: Future of Yiddish Eastern Europe in no-WWII world

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:56:02 +0200, "Michele" <nospammiarmel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Indeed coming up with the "Hitlerism" concept was a concession I was
making.
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>> How such a party would achieve power is a mystery to me. I can see it
>> playing the role Le Pen does these days but nothing more.
>
>Well, it might happen, though it would be more unlikely. If it is a
smaller 
>party than OTL NSDAP, then Von Schleicher might be even more tempted than
in 
>OTL to recruit it. Note how more traditional rightist conservatives also
in 
>Italy thought they could "use" and tame the PNF. A ride-the-tiger
scenario 
>which could still end with the tiger in command.
>

The critical events in Hitler taking supreme power were the Reichstag
fire and the Night of the Long Knives. I can't imagine Roehm outlawing
other parties though I can see the Strassers doing so (assuming as
seems to be the case now that the fire was NOT started by the Nazis
themselves but seized on op****tunistically by them). I don't see
either Roehm or the Strassers doing the Night of the Long Knives
(which I >do< see as orchestrated by Hitler) and thus you've got a
coalition situation lasting longer than OTL.