I got one of my degrees here: https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/24/usnewsglobalrankings2019/ …. .
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Replying to @fakehistoryhunt @ScottAdamsSays
From that page he linked to: 'Antifaschistische Aktion used their militant approach to develop a comprehensive network of self-defence for communities targeted by the Nazis, for example in "tenant protection" (Mieterschutz), action against evictions'
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I wouldn't have used "allied" in the original tweet -- but did the KPD damage other elements of the left in roundabout service to the Nazis? Absolutely, the same way several left/anarchist factions boosted Franco in the Spanish Civil War by undermining and attacking their own.
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Replying to @TaborTCU @NavalAirHistory and
Also, studied history at Boston U, Harvard, Imperial College London, and before those some local influences from a rarely-mentioned little one called Hartwick College. Someone here may have heard of it. Anyway, Shirer details all this in 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.'
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Saying that the people who were out on the streets and physically fighting the Nazis were actually allied to them because they embarrassed the socdems is not what I would call a sensible contribution
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It's the use of the term 'allied' that's the whole issue. Of course there's something to say for their actions indirectly or even directly supporting their enemies by giving them just what they needed; an enemy the floating voters feared more. Allied suggests an agreement.
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If you want to keep with the most literal interpretation of 'allied,' okay -- I would've avoided the word to bypass responses like yours. But allies aren't always bilateral and mutually-agreed. Sometimes an ally is an ally in one party's eyes only, and on/off. We all know this.
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It's the literal definition but it's also the only useful one. If you want to argue that AA unwittingly helped Hitler then do so, but to paint them as allies is ahistorical and, given what happened to many of them in the camps, really quite insulting
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It's not at all insulting to recognize the reality of how it played out -- especially when it's detailed and qualified. If you want to say all of that couldn't be expressed on a bumpersticker-length single tweet, that's fair. ... but it's not ahistorical, and it's not wrong.
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I want you on my side for all future tweets. You are lethal.
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