• IceWallowCum [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Did those socdems live to see WWII or the rise of nazism? What did they have to say about it?

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Straight from wikipedia so pinch of salt and all that.

      The Nazis overtook the SPD as the largest party in July 1932 and Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933. Of the parties present in the Reichstag during the passage of the Enabling Act of 1933, the SPD was the only one to vote against; most of the Communist deputies had been arrested ahead of the vote. The SPD was formally banned in June. Many members were subsequently imprisoned and killed by the Nazi government while others fled the country. In exile, the party used the name Sopade.

      After the end of World War II, the re-establishment of the SPD was permitted in the Western occupation zones in 1945. In the Soviet occupation zone, the SPD was forcibly merged with the Communist Party in 1946 to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)

      Some of them probably lived, no idea where to find any writings though.