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Hitler, Mussolini and FDR: The Secret History of a Mutual Admiration Society
Townhall.com ^ | August 23, 2018 | Dinesh D'Souza

Posted on 08/23/2018 7:08:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/23/2018 7:08:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

People lie:

Hitler DID meet with Jessie Owens.

*FDR* was unwilling.


2 posted on 08/23/2018 7:10:48 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

Interpolation of Jules Archer’s “The Plot to Seize the White House” (the Wall St. Plot) and Carroll Quigley’s “Tragedy & Hope”:

Fascism is the political manifestation of the period of economic history known as Monopoly Capitalism.

The greatest cartel today is the Socials. They are today’s Fascist Backers.


3 posted on 08/23/2018 7:13:07 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Kaslin
Don't forget about this person as well..
4 posted on 08/23/2018 7:16:52 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Kaslin

BUMP


5 posted on 08/23/2018 7:21:27 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: OttawaFreeper
Joseph P. Kennedy, Pro-Nazi Ambassador to the Court of St. James.


6 posted on 08/23/2018 7:24:04 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Kaslin

I remember my father always telling me that FDR was a commie and Joseph Stalin’s puppet.

He told me that Stalin had him create social security as a way of implementing communism in the USA.

I think he may have been right.


7 posted on 08/23/2018 7:25:04 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: Kaslin

Read years ago that early in his presidency FDR was proudly proclaimed “the American Mussolini”

But can’t find any reference to that on the internet these days.


8 posted on 08/23/2018 7:34:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin
Mussolini started out as a member of the Italian socialist party.
9 posted on 08/23/2018 7:41:26 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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bkmrk


10 posted on 08/23/2018 7:50:31 AM PDT by libertylover (Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
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To: Bigg Red

mark FL


11 posted on 08/23/2018 7:58:36 AM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: Kaslin

Roosevelt’s naivete and/or willing blindness re Stalin were staggering in their stupidity.

Patton, though apparently an insufferable @hole, was right on the money in ‘45.


12 posted on 08/23/2018 7:59:10 AM PDT by tomkat
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Fascism is characterized by central control of the economy with the illusion of private ownership of industry but all under direct control of the state. Nowhere is "being a meanie" in the definition of fascism.

Trump is shredding government regulations of industry. He's the opposite of a fascist.

13 posted on 08/23/2018 8:15:09 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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Fascism and Nazism are two sides of the same coin.


14 posted on 08/23/2018 8:36:55 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Fascism is characterized by central control of the economy with the illusion of private ownership of industry but all under direct control of the state.


Why would you need two companies making widgets when Company A over there makes perfectly fine widgets.....?


15 posted on 08/23/2018 8:50:56 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Sadly, the movie Death of a Nation is a complete flop, struggling in about 300 theaters after opening in more than 1000. Even by the standards of documentaries...


16 posted on 08/23/2018 9:39:41 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Kaslin

I think the title detracts from the substance of the article. Certainly Benito and Adolf were aware of the similarities of their respective economic systems to FDR’s New Deal and it was in their interest to praise the similarities. And, no doubt, FDR’s people looked on Benito’s Italy with some admiration. However, I do not think you could find much praise from FDR’s people for Herr Hitler’s NSDAP.

German national socialism and the Italian fascism were two distinct ideologies. Their economic programs were similar — opposed to free markets, private ownership and management of industry, and every aspect of individualism — but their objectives were different. For one thing, German national socialism was far more anti-Christian and was obsessed with Aryan superiority and the enslavement and/or eradication of human beings they thought inferior, especially Jews, Roma, and Slavs. Italian fascism expressly supported the Roman Catholic Church as being integral to the Italian fascist project and expressly opposed any persecution of the Jews. (It wasn’t until after Nazi control in 1943 that the Holocaust came to Italy.)

Though you’d be hard pressed to find any praise from FDR for Hitler’s national socialism, John Maynard Keynes wrote that his general economic theory was particularly well suited for Hitler’s ideology in the forward to the German translation of Keynes’ magnum opus. Indeed, the economics of German national socialism, Italian fascism, and FDR’s NRA are almost indistinguishable.


17 posted on 08/23/2018 10:09:02 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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In fact, Vatican City exists as a State today, thanks to Mussolini.


18 posted on 08/23/2018 10:11:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

Control the news / narrative, control the history.

Ever hear of William S. Knudsen?


19 posted on 08/23/2018 12:38:51 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To be honest. No


20 posted on 08/23/2018 12:50:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
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