• The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    First time I hear that term, it is not used in German. Yeah, there was a minority wing in the NSDAP who had some socialists views. The NSDAP was not a monolithic group, unlike many might believe. They also had a lot of esoteric people. Edit: all of them were fascists though, not communists nor liberals.

    But they are not the ones who brought Hitler to power. That was Paul von Hindenburg, Franz von Papen, a group of industrialists (Industrielleneingabe) and, of course, the people, that voted for him.

    It is all pretty well documented.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, I wouldn’t imagine the communists and socialists brought Hitler to power, lol - though it sounds like I need to educate myself more. Do you have any primer you would recommend on this topic?