Ah shit, here we go again

https://lemmy.ca/post/4200704

Ah shit, here we go again - Lemmy.ca

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.

Alternative for Germany - Wikipedia

They 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.

Night of the Long Knives - Wikipedia

Yeah, 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.
It’s not revisionist. Most people see the atrocities committed by the Nazis, and then say “yeah that shit isn’t socialist”. It’s a historical blind spot most people have about post-Weimar Germany.
It also helps that the socialist wing of the party was wiped out (literally) before the party became, er, internationally famous. If nobody had heard of the USSR until Stalin’s purges, they might have said they weren’t socialist either.
Also, the “left” wing of the party were still fucking unhinged.