a post about how many nazis remained in positions of power is made, the op is called a tankie and people defend the decision to keep nazis around

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  • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
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    Has anyone done any analysis on if Weimar’s collapse could be more closely tied to losing its colonies and still trying to be a social democracy?

    • YouKnowIt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      That seems pretty dubious. They started their colonies 30 years before they lost WWI, I don’t think they had enough time to extract enough to make a dent compared to their home industrialization

    • JuneFall [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      The colonies didn’t really matter for the economy in Germany. It did matter for concentrating capital in certain parts of the capitalist class though.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        Yes, Greater Poland was economically significant and fairly densely populated, and Upper Silesia was one of the two most important industrial regions in Germany.