>>5242645The communists were genociding average citizens. It's part of why the Nazis took power, because socialists were enacting violence in the streets. And that was on top of the people already having to deal with shit like French soldiers wandering into Germany to rape women and steal property.
When people talk about the Nazis' rise to power, they treat it like mass hysteria considering what they went on to do later, but it does everyone a disservice when the only fucked up thing about Weimar Germany discussed is the inflation.