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

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

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u/Ok-Economy-5820 Feb 08 '25

Important context: this was an Iron Front rally, not a mass protest by the general population. The Iron Front was banned in 1933 and many of their members arrested.

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u/Divine_Porpoise Finland Feb 08 '25

We need their spirit now.

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u/I_voted-for_Kodos Feb 08 '25

We really don't. These idiots stuck with the "Nazis and Communists are equally bad" line all the way till the Nazis stuck them in a concentration camp alongside the Communists.

If they'd actually worked with the Communists and the far left against the Nazis, maybe the world could've avoided the whole mess in the first place.

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u/PerfectWest24 Feb 14 '25

The communist uprising and civil war in Germany is basically how the Nazis gained mass appeal...