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Is the bottom the full name for Nazi? What’s AFD? Sorry if I’m out of the loop
AfD is a current right-wing party in Germany.
The Nazi party's name was the German National Socialist Workers' Party (National Sozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter Partei)
And to be clear: the first nazi camps were built to hold any communists or socialists they didn’t already execute.
Nazis hated Marxists. More than any other group.
And to be even clearer: the only reason why they chose this name was to appeal to common people and workers, the biggest part of the electorate. And it worked.
One example of their bullshit: They promised an end to unemployment and they did manage to get millions back into a job! How, you ask? Why, by making them build public sector projects like the Autobahn in MANUAL LABOR. While back then obviously very good machines already existed. But they'd need 1 operator and not 10 "hard-working, strong Aryan men with shovels and pickaxes".
Of course, most of the public infrastructure projects didn't benefit the public. It benefitted Hitler's war machine a few years later. Can't roll your Panzers over dirt roads.
Source: I have the misfortune of choosing history as my academic path....