Sanctissima wrote:
True, but it's worth noting that the Weimar government's relatively lenient attitude towards the NSDAP largely allowed them to rise. There's a reason why that judge was never replaced, and why they never really cracked down on the early Nazi party as hard as they should have.
Easy to say in hindsight, but the communists were probably a greater threat in their minds right up until it was too late, and any crackdown would have needed to use state apparatus already infested with nazis.
But this is somewhat off topic, except in the context of how to deal with counterjihadist radicals.