Editing Gregor Strasser (section)

===Conflicts with Hitler===
The [[Great Depression]] greatly affected Germany and by 1930 there was a dramatic increase in unemployment. During this time, the Strasser brothers started publishing a new regional daily newspaper in Berlin, the ''Nationaler Sozialist''.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|pp=125, 126, 127}} Like their other publications, it conveyed the brothers' own brand of Nazism, including nationalism, anti-capitalism, social reform, and anti-Westernism.{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|p=200}} Goebbels complained vehemently about the rival Strasser newspapers to Hitler and admitted that their success was causing his own Berlin newspapers to be "pushed to the wall".{{sfn|Longerich|2015|pp=125, 126}} In late April 1930, Hitler publicly and firmly announced his opposition to Gregor Strasser's socialist ideas and appointed Goebbels as Reich leader of NSDAP propaganda.{{sfn|Evans|2004|p=244}} When Hitler visited Goebbels on 2 May 1930, Goebbels banned the evening edition of the ''Nationaler Sozialist''. Gregor Strasser distanced himself from his brother and relinquished his position as publisher of the ''Nationaler Sozialist'' by the end of June, while Otto left the Party at the beginning of July.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|pp=128, 129}}

In August 1932, Hitler was offered the job of [[Vice-Chancellor of Germany]] by then Chancellor [[Franz von Papen]] at the behest of President [[Paul von Hindenburg]], but he refused. Strasser urged him to enter a coalition government, but Hitler saw the offer as placing him in a position of "playing second fiddle".{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|pp=233, 234}}<ref name="gunther1940">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.149663/2015.149663.Inside-Europe#page/n35/mode/2up | title=Inside Europe | publisher=Harper & Brothers | author=Gunther, John |location=New York|author-link=John Gunther| year=1940 | pages=14, 38–39}}</ref> While many in his inner circle, like Goebbels, saw his resistance as heroic, Strasser was frustrated and believed Hitler was wrong to hold out for the Chancellorship. The ideological and personal rivalry with Hitler grew when the successor Chancellor [[Kurt von Schleicher]] had discussions with Strasser as to becoming Vice-Chancellor in December 1932.{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|pp=244, 245}} Schleicher hoped to split the NSDAP with Strasser's help, pulling the left wing of the NSDAP to his "national conservative" side to stop Hitler.{{sfn|Nicholls|2000|p=253}} Hitler was furious and demanded that Strasser refuse Schleicher's offer.{{sfn|Nicholls|2000|p=253}} At a meeting of Nazi Reichstag members Hitler confronted the 30-40 that supported Strasser, forcing them to publicly support the former and denounce the latter.{{r|gunther1940}} Strasser resigned from his party offices on 8 December 1932, just seven weeks before the NSDAP obtained political power.{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|p=245}} Hitler temporarily took over the post of ''Reichsorganisationsleiter'', eventually turning it over to [[Robert Ley]].{{sfn| Orlow| 1969| p=295}} On 16 January 1933, Hitler "publicly repudiated Strasser" for his interactions with Schleicher.{{sfn|Overy|2010|p=59}} In March 1933, Strasser officially exited politics by renouncing his Reichstag seat.{{sfn|Stachura|1983|p=121}}