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Nationalists, not fascists. More of a difference than you'd think, actually.

Fascism actually has a lot of semi-socialist aspects at its core, combined with nationalist and some moderate policies. Not going to fly in Germany.

Nazism may have a lot to do with Fascism in some ways, but it's a whole different animal. While the party did have the socialist aspect at first, Hitler quickly realized that the party was going nowhere with it, and dropped it from the platform - and they were successful after that. The more socialist members of the party were purged during the Night of the Long Knives, not long after the Nazis took firm power, in part because of their views.

So, Nationalists, with many Nazi policies, though without the eugenic garbage and almost none of the anti-Jew behavior.

There's a limit on just how much the two western allies would allow - and that more or less means no invasions.

Stalin's influence with regards to other communist parties is usually overstated - basically, they were communist, but not Stalinist. "Stalinist" is more or less wanting a dictatorship. That's the only context it's referred to in.

Really, a Nationalist regime coming to power would ban the communist party, arrest its leadership, and shoot down their militia with its first week in power. Be no opportunity for a coup.

Yes, the Brits and French would support the Germans in that context. Americans too, unless Wallace somehow falls into the presidency. But I'd take a guess that he'd get impeached anyways.