Should the Weimar Republic have banned Adolf Hitler from becoming Chancellor in 1933?

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The Nazis didn’t actually have an election majority though. And in the last Reichstag election before Hitler was appointed Chancellor the Nazis had actually lost seats, though they remained the largest party (ie., they had a plurality of seats)

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Franz von Papen had essentially ended democracy in Prussia in 1932 because he didn't like that a coalition was impossible without the support of at least one of the Nazis or Communists. This ended helping the Nazis quite a bit in the long run and Papen deserves a lot of the blame for Hitler becoming dictator.

At the federal level, an argument could be made for Brüning being the man who had ended Weimar democracy, who was the last Chancellor before Papen, Schleicher, and Hitler.

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Franz von Papen had essentially ended democracy in Prussia in 1932 because he didn't like that a coalition was impossible without the support of at least one of the Nazis or Communists. This ended helping the Nazis quite a bit in the long run and Papen deserves a lot of the blame for Hitler becoming dictator.

At the federal level, an argument could be made for Brüning being the man who had ended Weimar democracy, who was the last Chancellor before Papen, Schleicher, and Hitler.

The idiots in the SPD bringing down Mueller in 1930, IMO.

A bad move, yes. And they couldn't prevent the KPD's increased popularity in any case.

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The KPD's Thaelmann deserves one such big black mark as well though he found out being a supplicant to Joe Stalin just means you get left to the horror of 11 years of solitary confinement interspersed with whatever the Nazis did to him that he didn't manage to smuggle out to the world about.

And it turns out that many years of calling the major left-wing party in Germany "social fascists" didn't exactly endear the KPD to the Social Democrats. Can't imagine why they didn't cooperate with the Communists!

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Would the NSDAP just have a stand in like Strasser or Goering be appointed in his place, and then smooth the way for Hitler once the regime was consolidated like Campora did for Peron in 1972?

Even if Hitler dissapeared, other nazi would take his place.

Perhaps a more competent, less egotistical, and less meth driven Nazi.

So not a Nazi then.

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Would the NSDAP just have a stand in like Strasser or Goering be appointed in his place, and then smooth the way for Hitler once the regime was consolidated like Campora did for Peron in 1972?

Even if Hitler dissapeared, other nazi would take his place.

Perhaps a more competent, less egotistical, and less meth driven Nazi.

So not a Nazi then.

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I'm saying that there would've been a fascist that came to power regardless. Hitler wasn't a good leader even ignoring the genocide he perpetuated. He was insecure, ego-driven, and thought he knew more than his generals. He wasn't very competent. A competent fascistic leader in Germany would've made things much more difficult.

And I'm saying that a competent Nazi or indeed, fascist (more broadly) leader is an oxymoron.