They are just socialists on a more national, local level. So they're basically just like "grow and buy local" liberals that oppose the fascist Drumpf! To those red fascist tankies in the room, LEARN TO READ GERMAN you TANKIES! 
To the non-tankies interested, join us on our lemmy instance where we discuss, among other things: epic bacon memes, i fucking love science videos, and a whole host of other mid to late 2000s internet humor because our brains are stuck in that era and we became the boomers we hated so much!
EDIT: Thanks for the reddit gold everyone!!
"They actually learned a lot about how long it takes to drown, and what temperatures are deadly".
Wow that sounds like knowledge we could not do without.
Advancing the LE SCIENCE of knowing how to inflict more suffering and torture later