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Sarcastic bluesky post saying [time traveling back to 1933 to make sure to tell Germans to protest Hitler less vigorously so as not to alienate bougie centrists who want to go to brunch undisturbed, thus preventing the rise of fascism]

  • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    The ignorance of history is strong with this one.

    liberals

    Who do you call liberals? That term wasn’t present back then and there was no party where that term would apply.

    And the communists were all for killing “capitalist jews”. Here’s a quote from Ruth Fischer when she was leader of the KPD:

    „Tretet die Juden-Kapitalisten nieder, hängt sie an die Laterne, zertrampelt sie“

    “Kick the Jew-Capitalists down, hang them from the lanterns, trample them”

    None of the parties back then map one-to-one to modern parties, and applying our current understanding and sensibilities to the political system in Germany back then without any kind of understanding just directly leads to misinterpretation.

    Especially if you don’t understand the political system of the Weimar Republic and just view that through the lens of a two-party system.