I'm gonna make this its own post - I did a lot of reading abt prewar Germany political parties, less abt postwar parties
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You can argue abt why (voting for WWI, turning on the KPD after the revolution) but WWII was a massive long-term loss for the Left
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And the war started in the first place because of a weakened left.
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1966, when they joined a grand coalition with the CDU under CDU leader Kurt Kiesinger (who was actually an ex-Nazi)
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SPD was excluded from power a) because it lost elections; and b) because it continued to agitate for a united Germany.
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