• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    4 months ago

    Hitler hated that name and killed all the protosocialist party members during the night of the long knives

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      If he hated it then why didn’t he change it? Who would have questioned him, the guy had nearly unreigned power and could have easily changed it. I never said Hitler was a socialist. He was just selfish (among other unsavory things).

      Regardless, since this is quite offtopic I will refrain from posting further here. Perhaps if a future topic arises we may meet again in that thread.

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        When they changed the name, Hitler wasn’t in power yet. By the time they became in power, the name stuck.