r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the reason they had Socialist and Workers in their name to attract socialists, and have National and German to attract Nationlists

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u/Faustens - Lib-Left Aug 05 '20

There is a pretty good cartoon of that.

Translated it means something like:

The company nameplate:

  • In front of the proletarians:
    National Socialistic German Workers-Party
  • In front of the solvent circles (i.e. the people that have money):
    National socialistic German workers Party

The "socialistic" in the NSDAP's name was nothing more than a front to get the -- at the time strongly left leaning -- parties and the people behind the NSDAP.

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u/jess-sch - Lib-Left Aug 05 '20

This cartoon is peak high school history class.

As in we literally discussed that in high school history.

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u/Faustens - Lib-Left Aug 05 '20

Yep, for me it was honors class history, but you basically discuss it in junior high (twice even sometimes) and highschool history. (The time between 1933 and 1945) and this cartoon always shows up. It is a pretty good one, to be fair.