The second group in opposition to Hitler could be broadly labelled ‘The Left’. Socialists and Communists hated Hitler and the Nazis, and knew what would happen to them if Hitler ever gained power. But the Left was remarkably disorganised. The Socialists clung on to a belief in the democratic process and viewed political assassination as anathema, a position also later adopted during the war by the Western Allies until quite late in the conflict. The Communists took their orders from Moscow, which directed their best efforts against their ideological cousins the Socialists rather than against
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