Based on the small piece of paper we were given, we were supposed to deduct the person's standing and the political party he would most likely vote for. My partner was Sonja, and we differed greatly in our view of the matter. You could see that it was quite clear that this Otto Hauptmann respected the Union and was grateful to them for letting him keep his job, when so many of his friends were let go due to their age. But not Otto. He blames their lack of success in his trade union on the inflation and the current ongoing depression. Not on the capitalists, or the Jews. Otto seems like a fair kind of guy and disagrees with his fellow workers about the fact that when owners are forced to cut back production, they take it out on the workers. These workers think the only way to end the depression is to let the workers control the factories and government. He opposes this idea and thinks that the workers DO get fair treatment as long as they have a strong union. He believes that factories and government should be managed by those who understand the complicated jobs.
From this I can deduct that he was definitely not going to vote for the communism idea as it revolved around the workers controlling the government and factories and the government being controlled by the people themselves, who as Otto said might not be able to understand the complicated jobs, so how would they know right from wrong? I think he would vote for the Social Democratic Party as they seem very fair, and he would agree with the lower taxes and a good image for Germany.
Otto doesn't blame anything on the foreigners and seems comfortable with working with others. So he might not agree completely with the Nazi Program. He believes in saying what he believes in, so he'd disagree with the lack of free speech in the Nazi program.
The Social Democratic Party is a party which has a lot to offer, and pretty much outranks the other parties in their views of justice, freedom and democracy. Something, I think Otto would take to heart. But just as there are many good views of the SPD, there as many risky but interesting views of the Nazi Party......
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