> he benefited from the enmity between the Social democrats and the Communist
To support Hitler Stalin ordered German Communists to not join forces with Social Democrats.
To support Hitler Stalin ordered German Communists to not join forces with Social Democrats.
in German: https://www.gewerkschaftsgeschichte.de/1933-konflikt-ueber-d...
now both parties took part in a general strike in 1920 against the Kapp putsch, and that was the end of the coup attempt.
It all could have been averted, I think people exaggerate the strength of the NSDAP in march 1933. They were already on a downturn, when they took power - in terms of the popular vote. It is possible that they would not have mattered, half a year later.
That's how it's going to happen in the US, too: The governing center/center-left party expends all of its effort attacking the left, and becomes completely ineffective at governance through incompetence, corruption and self-dealing, losing the support of the voters. The far-right (rising in popularity) eats into the center-right through direct targeting of individuals and the rewards of conversion to a movement currently rising in popularity. Eventually a charismatic far-right speaker starts giving popular speeches indicting the corruption and incompetence of the governing center, probably during a deep economic crisis, and insisting that this corruption and incompetence is disarming the country in the face of the real existential threat that everyone from the far-right to the center-left agrees upon, which is the left. And the left is actually covertly foreign-based, funded by powerful Jews and enemy governments, so their opinions are actually a form of invasion. So we need to cleanse this country of the traitors, then take the fight to the countries that supported them.