[Jim Noble]

It's just that equating Nazis with Social Democrats and even with Socialists is deeply insulting - and stupid too.

I'm not sure what you mean.

The romanticism of gemeineschaft was a big part of the national SOCIALIST party's appeal, and I assume that one important reason that the NSDAP is still banned 60 years after it's last legal meeting is the entirely reasonable fear that if it were permitted it would be popular.

[ukman]

>the entirely reasonable fear that if it were permitted it would be popular<

This is nonsense. The NSDAP's not-yet-banned successor parties (NPD, Republicans, DVU, whatever they call themselves) barely registered on the electoral scale.