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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
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 How Do You Kill 11 Million People: An Interview with Andy Andrews [Video] | Michael Hyatt. 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.
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As I pointed out to Buggy in another thread, the Nazis were left-wing not right wing. If you read the histories of the period, rather than repeating press related nonsense, you will discover this on your own. Here is the post I made:
Buggy, as I have pointed out before William L. Shirer in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is very clear and objective in his description of Nazism. It is clear from any historical analysis that the Nazi's were left wing and competed with the communists for the left wing vote. The conservatives did not vote for either of these parties. The Nazi's used the Reichstag fire as evidence (most believe forged evidence) that the communists were truing to take over Germany. As a result the Nazi's won a majority in the next election and the rest, as they say, is history. It's time forr you to actually read some books on the history of that period rather than urging others to do so in order to conceal your ignorance of the subject. You should start with Shirer and then go on to "In the Garden of Beasts" by Larson.
BTW, the opposite of both Communism and Nazism is freedom.
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