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Gregor and Otto Strasser were rivals of Hitler within the NSDAP, notably left-wing nationalists. While Otto left the NSDAP, Gregor would continue to be a prominent member of the Party until January of 1933. The previous month, he had been offered the vice-chancellorship by Schleicher in order to instigate a split in the NSDAP. Gregor's stance and rivarly with Hitler, his shenanigans with Otto and their truly "social(ist) fascist" approach would be interesting to see in the game. Maybe an option to embed an SPD spy within the NSDAP to cause more tension between Hitler and the leftists, splitting the nazi vote and preventing the legitimization of Hitler's appointment? Maybe Otto Strasser's Schwarzfront appearing as a rival leftist party contesting the SPD's worker powerbase? Maybe even a path for a nationalist SPD which ends up attracting either of the Strasser brothers and their supporters to join their ranks or form an anti-Hitlerite coalition?
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The black front was never big enough to have any influence at all, it was more like a small club
Fair point. Maybe if Strasser and the left nazis had left in december of 1932 and joined it?
The "left Nazis" were never that strong, by that point Hitler had cemented his total rule over the party. The SA were a disorganized mob and way too violent and unstable to challenge Hitler, hence why they stopped being a threat completely when Rohm died, and the actual "left Nazis" were a small faction and almost all were happy to blindly follow Hitler. The only real "left Nazis" were the Strasser brothers and Goebbels and Goebbels worshipped Hitler
So would the split have been more significant earlier on?
Maybe very very early on in the party's history because by 1929 the Nazis had mostly abandoned left-wing economics and started cozying up to conservative elites and industrialists. They started doing this after the Beer Hall Putsch because Hitler was never so hot on anti-capitalism anyways and because the elites and corporations were much happier to support a party that didn't call for their destruction. The Strassers and SA were remnants of a different time for the party
That would be interesting. Gregor Strasser gave some cautious praise to WTB in the Reichstag, but said the Nazis were the ones who had already developed a plan of public works based on credit creation.
Do you think that he would support it as leader of an expelled Left NSDAP ?
Hard to say. In Turner's Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, he says that Strasser was somewhat respected amongst trade unionists - even though they still had an overall negative view of him. That was why Streicher became so interested in him.
It could be really cool feature, unrealistic, but cool.
Maybe if it was done super hard to archieve, but also really rewarding.
Couldn't agree more