re: #740 Decatur Deb

verraten=betrayed?

Yup. Another common monicker for the main party (SPD) is also “Verrterpartei” (“Party of Betrayers”).

The sentiment originated in WWI, with the SPD spliting over the core of it supporting authorizing going into debt further to finance the German war machine (see USPD). The actual phrase was a child of the November Revolution of 1918/19, though, with the SPD government crushing several Soviet Republics in Germany through the help of right-wing paramilitary free corps. It originated with the Communists (a lot of them former USPD members).