Dan the Roman
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« on: June 01, 2009, 04:14:41 PM » |
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« edited: June 01, 2009, 04:17:16 PM by Dan the Roman »
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Brunning likely would have been a front-runner. He was minimally acceptable to the SPD, the Liberal parties, and would of course have had the Center behind him. He also was more popular than let on by contemporaries as he was very well received in the July Reichstag Elections.
Alternatively,someone like Carl Gordealer would have been drafted. Another potentially interesting candidate would have been Interior and Defense Minister Groener. He was a former commander and chief of the German Army and would have had a large degree of military support, but his hard line against the Nazis made him very popular with the SPD. He was also an extremely close ally of Brunning's.
In either case I doubt Hitler would have run the runoff, and given that the Nazis were a few months from total collapse in the fall of 1932, and that with no Hindenburg there would have been no election until 1934, I think its highly unlikely Hitler would have come to power in this scenario.
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