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And you think the division between the SPD and KPD in 1933 was due to... the actions in the chaotic post-war environment of 1919, despite periods of participation in a common united front before that and the fact that the KPD's final break with SPD cooperation came at the behest of the Stalinist USSR, which made demands the KPD, like most interwar Communist Parties, cheerfully danced to without question?
More precisely, "There is no disagreement that the democratic government, which included the SPD, fought the armed uprising against the democratic government, supported solely by the KPD, and won".
I am am clearly stating the political schism between the KPD and SPD from post war Germany wasn't mended by the time of the Nazis. More examples of that division worsening isn't really counter to that notion.
Ignoring the extended period of a united front breaking apart because the leader of the KPD was a Soviet puppet isn't exactly "an issue in 1919 wasn't mended 😔"
Their deaths easily left a power vacuum that was filled by soviet leaning german communists, most especially after 1922 when the civil war ended and the soviets emerged victorious. While some of the prominent german communists that werent russian soviets... were dead.
The Nazis had formed by 1920 and the S.A. formed from some Freikorps by 1921. It isn't like there was an expansive amount of time there.
Yet the period of the United Front between the KPD and SPD lasted from '23 to '28. The idea that it was an organic change because of deep-seated grudges is extremely questionable even just by the timeline, much less the details of the interactions of the 20s and early 30s.
Ebert was in power until 1925 and Stalin came to power in 1924. A 1923-1928 timeline is a little odd.