Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site klipper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!vu44!botter!klipper!biep From: biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Nazis Message-ID: <376@klipper.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 08:52:50 EST Article-I.D.: klipper.376 Posted: Thu Nov 29 08:52:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:58:43 EST References: <658@sjuvax.UUCP> <22400042@ea.UUCP> <6207@mcvax.UUCP> Reply-To: biep@klipper.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 34 In article <6207@mcvax.UUCP> steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) writes: >In article <22400042@ea.UUCP> mwm@ea.UUCP writes: >> Sigh. How many times does it have to be said. The Nazis (National >> Socialists) were *left* wing radicals. It says so right there on the label. > >Is this a joke? I remember seeing a film where someone made the same joke, >and a few years ago everyone had a good laugh when Prince Philip of the >British royal family made a blunder by saying something similar, though >seriously. [] 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. For reading (does someone ever read books proposed on the net? I don't :-)): 1) Hamburger: How Nazi Germany has controlled business 2) W. Shirer: The rise and fall of the Third Reich. (Both citing from memory. Especially the latter is recommended: Extremely well documented and covering almost every aspect of Nazism. I've read only parts of it myself, but hope to find time to read it completely. It's thick, however.) -- Biep. {seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!botter!klipper!biep I utterly disagree with everything you are saying, but I am prepared to fight myself to death for your right to say it. --Voltaire