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So here's a tricky challenge. IOTL the German Communists, holding to the Stalinist Social Fascism line, refused to cooperate with Social Democrats against the Nazis. After all, according to the line, there was no meaningful difference between Fascism and Social Fascism and both were ultimately reactionary bourgeois movements designed to suppress the revolution and keep the proletariat enslaved to capitalism. So confident of this were the leadership of the KPD that they coined the slogan "After Hitler, out turn!" believing that even if the Nazis got into power they would ultimately discredit themselves in the eyes of the German working class who would ultimately switch their support to the KPD and bring about the revolution. Suffice it to say things did not go exactly as planned.

Your challenge is to have Thalmann's inane slogan actually work out for the Communists. Hitler comes to power, then they fall out of power and the Communists take over afterwards. The leadership doesn't have to be the same and they don't have to hold to the Third Position policies so a united front witht eh Social Democrats is possible but only after the Nazis take power.
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