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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, technically, the Germans could have voted in a majority party on the left in the early 1930s and when that did fail they still could have just not voted for literal nazis.

So, Yeah. That was an option.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The vote was taken under gunpoint, quite famously, actually. Even then, the leaders of two of the leftmost political parties made a point of voting against it, making the rather valid point that the nazis were going to kill them anyway.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Okay but before the nazis won the left failed to form a government on three separate elections. Because the left was splintered between the Communists, Social Dems, and Centrists while the Nazi Party swept the entire right.