https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=4624
I don’t understand.
They are promising Soviet food and oil, the effort of uniting all German people into one nation, the end of Versailles, the end of debt, the end of hyper inflation, the protection of invasion from Britain and France, and still remaining independent from the Soviets.
And then 13 million Germans were like “give me that, but with war and death and mass killing please.”
Damn, people really can’t handle the word communism.
If you make me choose between Hindenburg and Hitler
Shows image of three choices
You don’t understand, that other guy was unelectable
SPD: This election is a choice between Literal Hitler and Diet Hitler.
Thälmann: I’m… Literally right here.
SPD: We might not like it, but we have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
Thälmann: I’m… still right here. If you need me, you know. Yeah.
SPD: Our hands really are tied here. We know that Diet Hitler is not too fond of us, but he’s our only hope to defeat Literal Hitler.
Thälmann: Do you… Do you actually hear me at all? Hello?
SPD: In times like these, it is the citizen’s duty to vote to save our democracy.
Thälmann: Do you think there might’ve been some sort of systemic issue that caused us to get into this situation in the first place?
SPD: Remember to vote Hindenburg, everyone!
It’s funny because it can also be a commentary on the US in particular and contemporary western society at large
Didn’t Hindenburg appoint Hitler to Chancellor?
He did. He was a hardcore right winger and arguably outright a monarchist - though of course he never moved to restore the monarchy.
Classic liberal
Hindenburg appointed Nazi party leaders to essentially all the levers of power within the Weimar Republic. This is something that gets overlooked in lib history because of great man theory brainworms but Hindenburg basically created a turnkey coup government for the party that, famously, was not led by a person who had already attempted a coup of the Weimar government years before.
This will repeat when Biden loses 2024. And if he somehow wins, this will repeat whenever the Republicans win the presidency again because no liberal will arrest a Republican politician for being fascist no matter how much liberals scream about Republicans being fascist.
Does it really get overlooked in lib history? I learnt about it at school in grade 8 or 9.
Not sure where you went to school, but in america, Weimar republic basically didn’t exist. I never heard of it until after I was radicalized and no one I know ever was taught about it in k-12.
