The consul

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The Consul is a novel by the author Christian v. Ditfurth , which was published in 2003 by Droemer-Verlag and belongs to the genre of alternative world literature. The plot includes the fictional assassination of Adolf Hitler in 1932 as well as the subsequent criminal investigation and political events in Germany.

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Adolf Hitler was found dead on November 8, 1932 in the luxury suite of a Weimar hotel. Two hotel employees who spy on the lodged Nazi celebrities on behalf of the KPD are presented as the main suspects to the Berlin detective commissioner Stefan Soetting . However, based on various evidence, Soetting doubts their guilt. Soon after, Ernst Röhm (emasculated), Joseph Goebbels (strangled) and Gregor Strasser (stabbed) are found dead one after the other. Since these murders are all attributed to the communists, a civil war finally breaks out between the Red Front Fighters' League on the one hand and the Reichswehr and the Stahlhelmbund on the other. In addition, the SA, which splits up into various factions, takes part in the civil war on both sides. In the course of the brief civil war, Soetting freed the two main Communist suspects from the Imperial Court in Leipzig. The reactionary forces can decide the civil war for themselves.

After the failed “coup attempt” by the communists, the government is now banning the KPD, SPD and all other socialist or democratic parties. A “national government coalition” is officially formed ( NSDAP with Göring as the new party leader, DNVP , DVP , center ), but this is only a facade for a military dictatorship of the Reichswehr . In addition, the German government is now intensifying rearmament and economic-military cooperation with the Soviet Union. In the meantime, Soetting continues to investigate and even gives up his profession. In the course of this, one of the suspects is murdered and he is prosecuted as his alleged murderer. Finally he finds out that Göring killed Hitler out of anger during an argument. The Consul organization is responsible for the other murders , the aim of which was to provoke a civil war against the communists under whose guise the Reichswehr was able to seize total power in Germany. Soetting is arrested and charged with murder. At the trial before the Reich Court in Leipzig, he tries to make his findings on the murder cases public. At the beginning he can almost convince the Reichsgericht, but in the end he is charged and convicted of having released the original suspect from the Reichsgericht. As an individual he has no chance against the totalitarian government.

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