Nazi collaborator’s name found on Victims of Communism monument - eviltoast
  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Gosh, I wonder what communism had to do with the rise of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The Weimar Republic laid the foundations for rejection of the democratic parliament, which Hitler then took advantage of to assume uncontestable power. The major reason Germany jumped to the conservative right politically was news of the political uprisings in Soviet Russia and the splitting of left factions into small uncooperative groups.

    Hitler transformed the party to be strongly anti-communist and anti-bolshevist (though mostly bolshevist was used as a dogwhistle for jewish people), but the fact remains that Nazi Germany was built on the foundations laid by communists.

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      6 days ago

      It absolutely wasn’t but whatever man you do you. Like none of what you said was what I asked but whatever. Blaming the communists for the Nazi’s is just a really stupid take and is just a total lack of understanding of history.

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        You are actually defending the people who split the votes and spoiled left wing politicians in Weimar Germany leading to consecutive failures to form government and eventual nazi takeover. What skin do you have in this game?

        If it was post-nazi takeover then I can see the merit in supporting the now underground nazi resistance of the communist party of Germany, but from 1919 to 1933 they did nothing but shit the bed.