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In article <3s9uu9$e9l@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>,
David C. Brower <dbrower@us.oracle.com> wrote:
>dbakken@bbn.com (David Bakken) writes:
>
>>
>>Um, I don't know how to break it to you, but the Nazis were 
>>socialistic leftists....unless of course you define all bad guys
>>to be on the right...
>>
>>Not to let facts get in the way, though.  
>
>This is the wildest bit of historical revisionism I've ever seen.
>
>I'm going to laugh rather than cry, and hope this is as abberant as it
>seems.

Nazism began with strong leftist leanings, as indicated by the
"Socialist" in the name. Although Hitler had little truck with
socialism, he paid a sort of lip service to it. Ernst Rhoem actually
took the leftist stuff seriously, but Hitler got rid of both Rhoem and
leftism on the Night of the Long Knives.

So it kind of depends on how you look at it, but since we generally
look at it post-1933, it is a bit laughable to claim it was leftist an
anything but name. I'm sure IG Farben and von Krupp und Bohlen would
have found it laughable.


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