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a post about how many nazis remained in positions of power is made, the op is called a tankie and people defend the decision to keep nazis around

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[–] Pisha@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Another despicable historical distortion going on in those comments is about the treaty of Versailles. American liberals like to go on about how it was so harsh that the rise of Nazism was a perfectly rational reaction. That's not only historically highly dubious – it was much less harsh than most anything the German Empire did to the losers of its wars (see Brest-Litovsk) – but it's also, like, only two degrees away from the stab-in-the-back myth (Dolchstoßlegende). That is to say: The Nazis liked to claim that the horrible economic state of the Republic was due to the "traitors" who gave up on WWI and signed the treaty, causing all of Germany's economic problems (never mind the Great Depression). No one should be agreeing with the Nazis on any part of that idea.

[–] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Has anyone done any analysis on if Weimar’s collapse could be more closely tied to losing its colonies and still trying to be a social democracy?

[–] JuneFall@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

The colonies didn't really matter for the economy in Germany. It did matter for concentrating capital in certain parts of the capitalist class though.

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