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Originally Posted by BBQMan
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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Hate to tell you this but the Nazis were far right wing. They believed in militarism, nationalism, big business, state religions (Hitler was very religious in his own very strange way), and other such tenets of the far right. The Nazi regime actually executed a number of people for being liberals. That was their only crime that they were liberals. The Nazis in Germany needed big business to keep and gain power and got their support mainly by using big business's support to attack Communists.
I have a B.A. in History and have read quite a bit about the Fascists in Italy, Spain, and Germany. They were nothing like any liberals at any other time nor in any other countries. So, I see no basis to any kind of argument that the Nazi Fascist were in any sense of the left wing but were of the far right wing.
I do find trying to put the Germany of the 1920s and 1930s into the politics of the US in the 2012s rather ridiculous though. There are a lot of rather obscene arguments being made on the Internet that the Nazis were precursors of Obama's socialism. I find that extremely offensive.