Since when does "what you would like to believe" have to do with historical events?
The NSDAP did not work, in the long run (although it is interesting that it is still banned in Germany and Austria).
In the short run, however, they supported what the supported and did what they did.
This is called reality.
The NSDAP did not work, in the long run (although it is interesting that it is still banned in Germany and Austria).
It didn't work because they got their butts kicked!!! My question is just would such a system "work" (as in not fall apart) if left alone. Once you go down this dark road is there a way back?
Yeah, I can speak for Germany. Nazis and Commis are both outlawed. That said neo-Nazis hang out in our "republican party" and the SED, east German commi party is now the PDS. Neither made the 5% needed for proportional representation in the last election. Our constitution bans any party whose platform is against the fundaments of democracy or human dignity. So they water thier rhetoric down, or risk getting banned.
As an American this bugs me a bit because I would like to think we could let even these freaks have democratic representation, because nobody would vote for them anyway.