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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nazis
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 22:00:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 22:00:21 1984
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> 	Well, saying "It says so right there on the label" is a joke, of
> course, but the fact is true. The Nazis wanted (and got) almost complete
> government control, control of social life (remember what they were trying
> to do to the churches?), etc. They are socialistic in the sense the USSR is.
> One may refuse to call that socialistic, but left wing radical it is.
> 
> 	{seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!botter!klipper!biep
> 

Leftists are not all totalitarian Stalinists, as you are implying.  Most,
including myself, are not.  I suppose that you believe that both the
KPD (German Communist Party) and the NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker's
Party) being "left wing radical" explains why they fought in the streets
bitterly during the Weimar Republic (the German democracy which Hitler bent
to his will), and why Hitler purged the left wing of the NSDAP when he had
consolidated power, and why the NSDAP was allied with the right wing parties
before it obtained supreme power, and why the NSDAP grew up in Bavaria, the
most conservative part of Germany.

Please go read Shirer again (especially the first 400 pages or so).

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