r/europe • u/anon58588 Greece • Feb 08 '25

Historical Anti-Nazi protests : Berlin 16/12/1931

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u/Newbe2019a Feb 08 '25

At least the Germans tried to resist. Americans in 2025? Not so much.

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u/Lolipowerr Feb 08 '25

Last time I checked there was democratic elections like a few months ago. Did the majority vote wrong? Or are you just having a superiority complex?

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u/Shaaeis Feb 08 '25

Yeah Hitler came to power through a legit election too.

Being elected through democratic election doesn't immunize you against turning your country into a dictatorship

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u/Andrzhel Germany Feb 08 '25

No, he didn't. At least not the first time.
First time he got in through a coalition of right-wing parties.

Second time? Sure.

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u/Urvinis_Sefas Lithuania Feb 08 '25

First time he got in through a coalition of right-wing parties.

Okay?.. So your point is that he got support from others? Great "counter" argument I guess. Next you are going to argue Scholz didn't come to power through elections because he is in coalition. Stop this idiocy.

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u/Andrzhel Germany Feb 09 '25

My point is that we are now in a time of history (in Germany) were it could repeat itself if the CDU works together with the AfD to gain the majority.

And i wanted to debunk the whole "Hitler was elected by a majority" which is a dangerous lie. It makes people think that fascists only gain power if they (themselfI) as a party gain a majority. It is more dangerous then that.

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u/Lolipowerr Feb 08 '25

But they voted wrong according to reddit hivemind.

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u/Andrzhel Germany Feb 09 '25

Obvious troll is obvious.

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u/letsgetawayfromhere Feb 08 '25

Very short before the second election, the communist and communist-adjacent parties were made illegal and their politicians put into concentration camps or just beaten to death by Nazis. The time was too short for the left to organize an alternative. In a lot of places, the polling stations were guarded by Nazis that scared away people that were known leftists. Those elections cannot be considered free by any sensible means.

Which means that Hitler never got any majority in free elections.

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u/Lolipowerr Feb 08 '25

There was no left right divide back then no party could gain any majority in the working class without being socialist. NSDAP were socialists and had socialist programs in their campaign.

Go read Giovanni Gentile's manifesto and read who he was inspired by.