Ya know…I’m a history buff and watch shows about WW2 on cable.
They constantly call Hitler the world’s worse mass murderer in history. Yet the facts constantly prove them wrong. (Ps not a Hitler fan by any stretch)
Not by a long shot.
Until recently, the communists of the world have glossed over the fact that BOTH the National Socialist German Worker’s Party and the Communist Party of Germany (in Weimar, pre-WWII) were BOTH Leftists. Instead they preserved the notion that Hitler and the Nazis were “Right Wing” and “conservative” as well!!
Why? Because the Nazis competed politically with the Communists for control of Weimar Germany during their huge Depression post WWI. Important in the realization of how this happened is that it was the Kaiser Wilhelm who FINANCED (with the advice of his General Staff and Foreign Minister (meaning also his secret military intel people)) the placement of Vladimir Lenin and 50 fellow Communists on a German guarded sealed train, full of gold bullion— into St. Petersburg. In order to “win the war” by destroying Wilhelm’s cousin, Tsar Nicholas— and it didn’t work, and the “blowback” to the losing Germany was a HUGE post WWI Communist uprising (Labor, Ruhr valley, etc), all blamed concurrently (by both Commies and Nazis) on .... Jews.
Since you are a history buff, I’d recommend, on youtube and free, a BBC series called “The Fall of the Eagles”... all the history leading up to WWI, resulting in the end of all the monarchies of Europe, and Russia— and why.
Here are two shortened versions of episode... the one on Wilhelm deciding to “OK” Lenin’s transport out of Switzerland, and his revolution. And the second one— Lenin’s demand for the transport of all of his henchmen (Patrick Stewart as Lenin, chilling). First one 9 minutes, the second one 10 minutes.
Highly recommend watching the entire series— it is excellent, and... depressing.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjt452YzkM
The second one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urSaGebApQs