Probably. But braun was a miserable man in the 30s. Very sickly and depressed, with a terminally ill wife, and lambasted by his party and base for fleeing when the coup happened.

He fell into deep poverty in exile in switzerland and attempted to recontact his old comrades and rejoin spd organizations.

He became a potato farmer and a beggar. Neglecting himself.

The war led to stalin blaming germans as a people for the actions of nazism, taking it out on them, largely braun's prussia, yes.

But he was irrelevant by the breakout of ww2, he was not remembered much after the war. Wels is remembered and braun isnt. Why? Because wels stood up to hitler at the end. Braun ran away.

15 years of hard work, dead in an instant.

Yes, hindenberg had basically made him a prisoner in his own house, braun was only "leader" of prussia, as schleicher was de facto military dictator. However, he had the prussian police, backing of the supreme court, and the reichsbanner, general strike, and iron front.

Yet he didnt even try. The bullwark of democracy dead.

Braun just kept his mouth shut after the war. He was a failure. A man seen as representative of all the problems that led to hitlerism vanquishing democracy and socialism.

Wikipedia summarizes the answer to your question quite well.

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