Right-Wing Extremism - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten

This English edition of the German newspaper Spiegel describes Neo-Nazis as extremists of the far right. That kind of fits with the far right ideas of skinheads in the US like the skinhead who shot up the Sikh temple in Wisconsin.

In contrast, Hitler's Nazis were fascists though responding to the economic problems of the times (1920s and 1930s). They pitted liberals/communists and others from the left against those from the right like big businesses in Germany by scapegoating Jews and many others. Nazis and other 1920s/1930s Fascists had a heavy nationalist and military component and were bent on conquests. Different time, different country, different cultures in play.

Hitler and his henchmen used the fears and insecurities of his countrymen to lie his way into power and then kept that power through further lies and massive violence. A very thoughtful book about Hitler's rise to power is How Do You Kill 11 Million People http://michaelhyatt.com/how-do-you-k...on-people.html. The book by Andy Andrews is about 40 pages of argument/historical analysis and then another 30 of additional commentary. You can probably read it in less than an hour.