But D-Day was also the moment where United States to communism could no longer outweigh its acceptance of Nazism, and U.S industrialists. ..…

Nevertheless, the dream of a German crusade against the communist Soviet Union on behalf of the capitalist West refused to die. London and Paris merely launched a “Phoney War” against Germany, hoping that Hitler would eventually turn against the Soviet Union after all. ..…

He also championed economic collaboration with Germany and anti-communist repression, working on behalf of the Nazi occupation (including selecting communist prisoners executed in 1941 in retaliation for the assassin ation of German officers, and establishing special sections -..…

SPD's most fertile ground Germany remains in the densely populated industrial regions of western Germany, particularly Ruhr North Rhine- Westphalia, of Hesse and Lower Saxony.  . But with the founding of the Communist Party of Germany in 1919, SPD became the permanent home..…