• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    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
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      7 hours ago

      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.