The part name changed. I've seen and heard people says. Liberals/democrats were to blame for Hitler being in power. My response was… the party name has changed… look at what was happening…. That's the gop/republicans now. They couldn't get past the party name. Because their egos wouldn't let them.
In this vein, it seems timely to note that there’s a meme going around in the liberal cinematic universe about how, on the ‘Day of Potsdam’, Hitler pardoned 8,000 Nazis and assorted other right-wing goons, except:
A. No he didn’t. That was Hindenburg. In the title (Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten, not Verordnung des Reichskanzlers) and on the signature line, it was Hindenburg. Mr Lesser Evil himself.
B. This wasn’t exactly the first time that right-wing death squads got off scot free. Between Hindenburg’s own amnesties and the German courts, who bent the law into all sorts of innovative non-Euclidean geometries to avoid convicting Nazis for murders there was no doubt they’d committed.
To me the failure of the SPD to use force after the von Papen coup was their ultimate failure. That's on top of all the times they betrayed the true German left in the teens and twenties.
Yeah, I think the dissolution of Prussia just showed that they were in the end unwilling to fight the nazis on the streets. A lot of social democrats, Otto Braun and his entire rightist/bourgeois collaboration faction in Prussia were probably most guilty of this, just didn't believe in a scenario where the nazis could genuinely topple the republic by force, so they retreated to the institutions.
And when von Papen used the institutions against them? They collapsed without a fight. Honestly, I still have difficulty understanding how Prussia's interior minister Severing, who famously let himself be escorted away by two police officers while having about 100,000 mostly republican police officers at his disposal, just walked away like that.
It's mind-boggling how naive/hesitant they were to act. But as you said, it's just the sad end result of what started with the revisionist turn in the 1910s.
The part name changed. I've seen and heard people says. Liberals/democrats were to blame for Hitler being in power. My response was… the party name has changed… look at what was happening…. That's the gop/republicans now. They couldn't get past the party name. Because their egos wouldn't let them.
In this vein, it seems timely to note that there’s a meme going around in the liberal cinematic universe about how, on the ‘Day of Potsdam’, Hitler pardoned 8,000 Nazis and assorted other right-wing goons, except:
A. No he didn’t. That was Hindenburg. In the title (Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten, not Verordnung des Reichskanzlers) and on the signature line, it was Hindenburg. Mr Lesser Evil himself.
B. This wasn’t exactly the first time that right-wing death squads got off scot free. Between Hindenburg’s own amnesties and the German courts, who bent the law into all sorts of innovative non-Euclidean geometries to avoid convicting Nazis for murders there was no doubt they’d committed.
To me the failure of the SPD to use force after the von Papen coup was their ultimate failure. That's on top of all the times they betrayed the true German left in the teens and twenties.
Yeah, I think the dissolution of Prussia just showed that they were in the end unwilling to fight the nazis on the streets. A lot of social democrats, Otto Braun and his entire rightist/bourgeois collaboration faction in Prussia were probably most guilty of this, just didn't believe in a scenario where the nazis could genuinely topple the republic by force, so they retreated to the institutions.
And when von Papen used the institutions against them? They collapsed without a fight. Honestly, I still have difficulty understanding how Prussia's interior minister Severing, who famously let himself be escorted away by two police officers while having about 100,000 mostly republican police officers at his disposal, just walked away like that.
It's mind-boggling how naive/hesitant they were to act. But as you said, it's just the sad end result of what started with the revisionist turn in the 1910s.