> So if they would implement the other parts of the program, then the existence of the "racist and nationalist" part would be all fine?
I did not say that. Forgot "anticommunist" though in the list.
The racist part of their program was actually not their main point, and it was as racist as all non-communist parties, in most western countries (the Front Populaire was probably the less racist of all, and it was still pretty racist). Germans did not vote for Nazis because they were particularly racists.
The nationalistic part might have been a reason they caught some vote, but the true reason they got 33% of the vote was because they would "save the economy" by unspecified means, and remove the communist party, which pushed small business owners, landlords/slumlords and well as big land owners in their arms.
The Soviet-directed communists (not all communists, but all German elected communists) did not help their case, being droned around by Moscow to do stupid shit (They also shat the bed in Spain. Better to have as enemies than as allies to be frank).
Still, Nazi only got 33%, it wasn't a majority. They they did a coup, and the rest is well known, but they absolutely did not have a majority: 33% of the voting population, with most of those convinced by populist lies about economics and moral panics.
Wikipedia tells me that they got 44% and had the ability to form a coalition (so, a like-minded other party was there to support them). One can argue that this isn't the majority, but I guess this is open to interpretation. Also I know that Germans didn't support Nazism in order to build gas chambers, but rather because they wanted to have their country fixed in the first place, but enabling degenerates to fix something by any means seems like a degenerate action to me.
I did not say that. Forgot "anticommunist" though in the list.
The racist part of their program was actually not their main point, and it was as racist as all non-communist parties, in most western countries (the Front Populaire was probably the less racist of all, and it was still pretty racist). Germans did not vote for Nazis because they were particularly racists.
The nationalistic part might have been a reason they caught some vote, but the true reason they got 33% of the vote was because they would "save the economy" by unspecified means, and remove the communist party, which pushed small business owners, landlords/slumlords and well as big land owners in their arms.
The Soviet-directed communists (not all communists, but all German elected communists) did not help their case, being droned around by Moscow to do stupid shit (They also shat the bed in Spain. Better to have as enemies than as allies to be frank).
Still, Nazi only got 33%, it wasn't a majority. They they did a coup, and the rest is well known, but they absolutely did not have a majority: 33% of the voting population, with most of those convinced by populist lies about economics and moral panics.