Talk:Malicious Practices Act 1933

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Someone may want to take a look at the wording of the Overview. The sentence, "Protective custody, however, was aimed at the regimes political opponents, in particular those from the left, such as the communists and socialists.", differentiates socialist's from Nazi's. The National Socialist German Workers' Party was abbreviated as NSDAP and was referred to in English as "Nazi". The Nazi Party was a socialist organization.

The NSDAP was not a socialist organization, although some of its members developed some socialistic demands and even a leftist wing in the mid-1920s, but that only existed until ~1929/1930. The advocates of a leftish alignment were toppled in the late 1920s (Strasser - with his leftish version of national socialism - in 1930), some of them were killed or forced to leave the country in 1933 and/or in 1934. The DAP (the antecedent of the NSDAP) dropped the term socialist, but when it was renamed to NDSAP in 1925 the term was picked up again - it was used to appeal to left-wing workers (and the working class in general); Hitler's early mentor Drexler (first party leader) added an addit. explanation: the party would care for the social welfare of German citizens deemed part of the Aryan race, which displays that there were no real social. ideas present, at the time. In the article, the term socialists refers to the Social Democrats (party: SPD). While the social-democratic movement still carried a lot of goals/traits from its original alignment (as socialist working-class party, where parts of it appeared to be relatively radical up to World War I), it had been quite rather moderate and quite supportive of the state (the Weimarer Republic), and had - unlike the communists and the NSDAP - tried to protect the democracy. So, the correct would be "social democrats". GeeGee (talk) 09:44, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

I'd like to suggest deleting the consequences section. It is largely untrue, especially in its description of the voting for the Enabling Act, for example, the SPD was allowed to vote and did... against the Act. Ph8l (talk) 22:07, 11 May 2020 (UTC)