How does fascism handle succession? Like, assuming WWII goes perfectly, and Germany conquers everything it wants, what happens when Hitler is 75 and dies of old age?
>>18492365If we go by Portugal and Spain. A different guy gets promoted
>>18492372And then that guy transitions to liberal democracy
>>18492365Hitler planned to create an institution called the 'Senate' which would handle matters of succession. If I recall correctly, just about a hundred top party officials would be responsible for voting for the next leader/chancellor.Even though Hitler hated Christianity, he often praised the structure of the Catholic church and saw it as the ideal authoritarian model
>>18492365>How does fascism handle succession?Backstabbing, power games and corruption just like it handles everything else.
>>18492365i think hitler always intended the Fuhrer role exclusively for himself as the founder of the third Reich and all thathis will split his power between gobbels and donitz as chancellor and president iirc>>18492365>How does fascism handle succession?more generally, isn't all fascism anti-monarch/dynasty? they more favor the strongman on the spot it doesn't seem like fascists or communists for that matter ever like this idea of "appointed successor"
>>18492391Hitler already had a successor nominated: Hess, then Goering.
>>18492365Hitler and German legalists carefully studied several different examples of past governance throughout the 1930s and 40s, drawn from both their own nation's experience (that is to say, they looked at back Wilhelmine Germany, the HRE, and the old Germanic Thing) and from others, i.e. - the Italian Grand Council of Fascism, Spartan Gerousia, Venetian Doge system and the Catholic Church among others. In his Table Talks, Hitler eventually came to the conclusion that two systems appealed to him the most, that being the systems of the old Venetian Republic and the Catholic Church. From before the NSDAP even came to power, Hitler envisioned a so-called 'Reich Senate' (housed in the Brown House in Munich with perhaps a sister apparatus in Berlin a well) which was merely the formalization of Gauleiter meetings. It's purpose was to be advisory, not legislative (the Reichstag remained for that) but it's most important role was electing the next Fuehrer. It would have anywhere between 60-64 members (depending on the draft) which would be comprised of all the Gauleiters and then other prominent individuals from various professional fields. This was the 'large Senate', the 'small senate' (around half that number) would have the task of electing the next Fuehrer. They would remain inside the Brown House and deliberate until a very next unanimous decision was made (this is the Catholic Church influence - Hitler made direct reference to the election of a new Pope). Once the decision was made, the Part, Civil Service, SS, and Wehrmacht would all immediately swear a new oath of loyalty to the new Fuehrer. This entire process was intended to be accompanied by a new National Socialist Constitution that would officially replace the Weimar one whose legal status was dubious and in the air at the time. >>18492574Other way around, Goering and then Hess.
>>18492365If Hitler’s Mao who would be their Deng?
>>18492365>How does fascism handle successionIt doesn't. Spain abandoned that retarded system after Franco died.>>18492641Probably either Schacht or Speer since they were the only high IQ ones of the bunch. Goering was high IQ but he was more of a military man than a bureaucrat.
>>18492574Goering or Hess would have probably turned Nazi Germany into a liberal democracy
