>Stalin actually decided not to support the KPD during the pre war period, seeing them as a bigger threat than Hitler This does not make sense. Did you mean SP

>Stalin actually decided not to support the KPD during the pre war period, seeing them as a bigger threat than Hitler This does not make sense. Did you mean SPD (instead of KPD)? Comintern politics were confused, but I think they changed to a popular front strategy after Hitler's "coronation" (which they should have done many years earlier). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front#Comintern_policy:_1934%E2%80%931939 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front#Comintern_policy...