Posted on 09/24/2011 7:30:33 PM PDT by decimon
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The walls were covered with flags, photographs, posters, slogans and emblems. His SA uniforms hung neatly ironed on a hanger…When I said that it must be rather claustrophobic with all that stuff on the walls, he laughed and sat down on the bed, and said: “Mensch! You should have seen it last year! You would have laughed! Then it was all red flags, stars, hammers, sickles, pictures of Lenin and Stalin and Workers of the World Unite!…Then, suddenly when Hitler came to power, I understood it was all nonsense and lies. I realized Adolf was the man for me. All of a sudden!” He snapped his fingers in the air. “And here I am!”…Had a lot of people done the same, then? “Millions! I tell you, I was astonished how easily they all changed sides!”
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National Socialism and Communism were not all that different, just a matter of degree. As a matter of fact the plans of FDR looked eerily similar.
FDR had some creepy ideas
but...
The Republican party of the early 1930s was made up of guys who thought Benito Mossawhatver was a good guy !
that was a very spooky time in our history and I feel like past is prologue
Naturally, imposing rationed state-controlled health care on the masses, threatening to suppress opposing opinion and free speech through a “fairness doctrine”, and using quasi-terrorist tactics to stonewall any attempt to roll back socialism (for example, legislators in Wisconsin fleeing the state with a clap on the back from Fuhrer Ubama in order to prevent a vote on pending legislation) perfectly fits the modus operandi of America's own 21st century Nazi party.
In other words, America’s Democrats are operating in EXACTLY the same way the original version of their party operated in Germany during the 1930s.
there were several “blacklisted” people on a local radio station many years ago....very early 90’s......they all admitted at the end that YES they were communist and YES they did try to subvert the USA.....n
nazis hated communists.
The only real difference between the Nazis and the USSR was who they wanted running the world. If Hitler had died in 1935, Europe would still have experienced a bloodbath -- Stalin would have walked in and taken over. Millions would still have died, it just would have been a different set of people.
They were fighting for the same bone, as the article says
FDR’s National Recovery Administration seems modeled after the syndicalism of European fascism.
I did computer work for a guy who was a German U-Boat Officer in WWII.
I asked him if he ever met Hitler. He told me, “Yes, Hitler lover the U-Boat. He told me I would never understand the charisma Hitler had, he said you just wanted to do things for him.
In 2003 just before the Iraqi Freedom Campaign started, he told me, the America must defeat this dictator as quickly as possible. He quoted Clausewitz saying a nation has a moral imperative to destroy his enemy as quickly as possible, because only this course of action minimizes loss of life.
He ranted for a good half hour and I was intrigued. He went on a slight tangent saying if France and Great Britain would have shut Hitler down in 1936, they could have stopped him.
Oh well, nice post. I’m just waiting for the next Hitler to start again.
yep!
read “FDR’s Folly” for the details
They were trying to plow the same rich Marxist ground. It was like a Coke vs. Pepsi propaganda war. Whichever one was chosen, it'd still be a Cola who was the winner...
Mussolini was initially a very popular guy. Someone recently called him the Che of his era.
Here’s an old favorite, The Mystery of Fascism: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/916286/posts
Yes, the Progressives, both Republican and Democrat, loved Mussolini. A lot of the Democrats also loved Stalin. A lot of Progressives loved Hitler before he attacked the Soviet Union.
FDR was our version of Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler. The depression ended when his heart stopped beating. When I first read that, I was taken aback... upon reflection it appears to be correct.
‘Scott: “What is the original title of Barack Obama’s autobiography?”’
Almost right, that’s the title of Sasha’s future autobiography.
Not all of them. The Strasser brothers led the left wing of the Party until the erarly 30s. Gregor Strasser was touted as an alternativer to Hitler, by no less than Joseph Goebbels.
Roehm’s SA was very left wing. Stenns [the SA head in Berlin] led a revolt against the Gauleiter, Goebbels. Roehm kept calling for the second revolution, and wanted the Army to merge with the SA under his leadership. He made impolitic remarks to the tune of with Hitler or without him. the SA in the early 30s was so left, the phrase “Beefsteak Nazi: Brown on the outside, Red on the inside” became common.
The left wing of the Nazi Party was broken in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Gregor Strasser was shot. Roehm was shot. Otto Strasser fled for his life. The SA was neutered. The winners? Hitler, and Himmler, Heydrich and the SS.
Most of the SA started out as Communist street brawlers, but the Nazis had the better beer at their parties.
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