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To: Pikamax
They were left-wing socialists. Yes, the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany, otherwise known as the Nazi Party, was indeed socialist, and it had a lot in common with the modern left. Hitler preached class warfare, agitating the working class to resist "exploitation" by capitalists -- particularly Jewish capitalists, of course. Their program called for the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, and other major industries. They instituted and vigorously enforced a strict gun control regimen. They encouraged pornography, illegitimacy, and abortion.

Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics".

8 posted on 03/22/2005 7:34:09 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: 2banana; Inwoodian

Any depiction of the Nazis as "socialist" collapses in the face of the unshakeable fact that fascist violence was entirely directed against the left. Never the right. In fact, the conservative right (the Army, the Churches, High Society) survived intact and even prospered under fascism. Hitler and Mussolini were never in a position to replace their royalist generals with fascists. Under fascism the conservative right survived and prospered. The left was completely destroyed.

In fact, once the war was obviously lost it was the old boy network that was the basis of the peace party that plotted against both Hitler and Mussolini.


14 posted on 03/22/2005 7:44:22 AM PST by Sam the Sham
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To: 2banana
Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics".

Check out "the pink swastika". It's been floating around the internet for years.

29 posted on 03/22/2005 8:06:54 AM PST by Podkayne (marg bar eslaam hegemony)
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To: 2banana
They were left-wing socialists.

Until the Nazi's, big business had never had it so good.

Their program called for the nationalization of education, health care, ...... and other major industries.

Oh, sorta like "no child left behind", prescription drugs, and faith based pork?

88 posted on 03/22/2005 10:33:48 AM PST by iconoclast (Better to take refuge in the Lord than to put one's trust in princes. (Psalms 118:9).)
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To: 2banana

"Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics"

On this one point, after reading any of the Schiavo threads, I think they may have been right.


127 posted on 03/22/2005 8:54:31 PM PST by flaglady47 (O)
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