On this day in 1933, the Nazis pass the "Enabling Act." Also known as the "Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich," the legislation gives Hitler unlimited power and transforms Germany into a totalitarian dictatorship.

because they attended a 1st of May parade.

There was a ban and the ban affected all parties. Only the communists did not comply.

The far left were the ones most consistently opposing Nazism, whereas the "democratic centre" broke up all by itself because the Conservatives decided they'd rather collaborate with the Nazis.

The Reichsbanner had ten times as many members as the KPD, but nobody talks about them anymore huh. And they took on the right and the left.

The KPD literally campaigned on slogans like "a vote for Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler" (because they were aware of the fact that the far right paramilitaries that regularly broke up their strikes and beat them up were funded by the "conservatives" who owned the factories and that this was in fact a very good breeding ground for a far right/moderate right alliance)

NSDAP and KPD organized strikes together. Communists and Nazis killed democracy. The difference is that the communists simply refuse to acknowledge their complicity.

the SPD had major "the leopards ate MY face" moment

Yes, because the Stalinist Thälmann, who was carrying out his own Stalinist purge in the KPD, was clearly the better choice.

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