I don't understand the appeal of a revisionist history that absolves the SPD of paving the way for Hitler. Doubly so a revisionist history that somehow, after all the sacrifices and all the horror, pretends that the Nazis could have been defeated with electoral politics.
The very basic premise just sounds like a revisionist re-writing of history to pretend the SPD didn't have a critical role in destroying the "Good Future". It promulgates the idea that fascism can be defeated with liberal electoral BS in what was, historically, the most stern rebuke of liberal democracy in history. I don't get it. Who is this for?
I think it comes down to liberals being physically incapable of recognizing that they enable fasicsm and fascists.
Just because liberals voted for the Fascists in 1924, repeatedly praised Fascism in the press, suppressed militant antifascists regularly, trained dozens of Fascist cadets, elected politicians sympathetic to Fascism, repeatedly overlooked or trivialized Fascist oppression, signed a naval pact with Fascists, extended credit to Fascists, signed military alliances with the Fascists, partitioned Czechoslovakia for the Fascists, tolerated businesses that marketed products (including oil and nickel) to Fascists, became economically critical to the Axis war machine, provided bank accounts for Fascists, bailed out Axis businessmen, held more Axis POWs than Jewish refugees, collaborated with self‐identified fascists, started Operation Paperclip and kept the employés, started Operation Bloodstone, accepted surviving Axis collaborators as party members, endorsed an underground network of neofascists, allow monuments to Axis collaborators, martyrize Axis collaborators, and contribute to neofascism in Ukraine, doesn’t mean that they enable fascism and fascists.
Just wanted to add:
Directly incorporating the Nazi private intelligence agency into the state (the Gehlen Org), appointing Nazi leaders to high ranks within NATO (there's about half a dozen examples of this), chanted "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles!" alongside the Nazis in government chambers (German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism by Donna Harsch)
Also them failing to realize that material conditions can shape things such as electoral outcomes, not solely the other way around