WtfEvenIsExistence1️Ah shit, here we go again
Is the bottom the full name for Nazi? What’s AFP? Sorry if I’m out of the loop
Nazi party’s official name: NSDAP- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei- National Socialist German Workers’ Party (They aren’t actually socialist, it’s just the name they chose)
AfD: Alternative für Deutschland- Alternative for Germany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
In March 2020, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) classified AfD’s far-right nationalistic faction known as Der Flügel as “a right-wing extremist endeavor against the free democratic basic order” and as “not compatible with the Basic Law”, placing it under intelligence surveillance.
scorpionixThey weren’t actually socialist, it’s just the name they chose
Technically, they were, at least to some degree until the Night of the long Knifes during which all left-leaning SA Leaders were purged.
cygnusYeah, to claim that people like Ernst Roehm weren’t socialist is revisionist, to put it mildly. Dude was anticapitalist and wanted to nationalize most industries.
Is there a book I can read? I’ve fallen for this oversimplification, yet knowing about the night of the long knives, and incorrectly underatood this bit of history.
Sorry, it’s been ages since I read up on WWII in general, and I don’t have a specific recommendation for you. Roehm wrote a memoir but I think it’s Mein Kampf-esque) rambling and incoherent). Mind you, from the mid 30s onward the Nazis were not especially socialist, so people aren’t necessarily wrong when they point out the “socialist” is a misnomer.