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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The social democrats were funding the Nazis? Suuuure, buddy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just a reminder that communists weren't the ones to appoint nazis to power; anti communists were. The ones that thought violence is never the answer and we should just vote harder if we don't want fascists in power.

And everytime those people get power fascists get power shortly after. Maybe it's not financially funding, but anti'tankies' are responsible for every instance of fascism taking power. Because equality and equity scares you people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not that the distinction bears much value making: They funded the proto-Nazis.

In the time period in question (After WW1, Wiemar Germany) the social democrats were in direct coalition with right wing paramilitaries.

Those paramilitaries did some extrajudicial killings and some just so happened to form things like the S.A. and the Nazi party. (And tried to overthrow the social democrats government a number of times by military coup.) Erich Ludendorff is a notable figure to this period.

But by the time the proto-Nazis had murdered themselves and others enough to become the Nazis, no, the social democrats were no longer in alliance, but mostly after the second coup attempt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Which German president appointed Hitler as chancellor? Which "leftist" political parties did and did not endorse that president?