Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Nazis Message-ID: <500@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 22:00:21 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.500 Posted: Thu Nov 29 22:00:21 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:47:23 EST References: <658@sjuvax.UUCP> <22400042@ea.UUCP> <6207@mcvax.UUCP> <376@klipper.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 27 > 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). -- Jeff Myers The views above may or may not University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of my employers. Madison Academic Computing Center ARPA: uwmacc!myers@wisc-rsch.arpa uucp: ..!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!myers