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Germany's Populist Right-Wing AfD Party Draws Comparison to Nazis
NBC News ^ | 02 October 2016 | Andy Eckardt

Posted on 10/05/2016 11:24:40 AM PDT by Lorianne

MAINZ, Germany — Voters in Berlin — once the epicenter of Adolf Hitler's dark Nazi regime — were given an unusually strong warning from the city's mayor in the run-up to recent local elections.

Michael Mueller, a member of the center-left Social Democrats, warned that double-digit gains for the right-wing AfD party would be interpreted worldwide as a "return of the right and the Nazis in Germany."

The warning had little effect.

Days later, Mueller and the political establishment were left stunned when the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party took 14 percent of the vote.

Charlotte Knobloch, the former head of Germany's Jewish community and a Holocaust survivor, was among the voices calling on Germany's mainstream parties to prevent a "brown renaissance."

The success of a party that "disgustingly stirs up hatred against minorities," makes Nazi terminology and thesis "socially acceptable" and "cannot credibly distance itself from neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers, is a ... nightmare," she warned.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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Of course. Anyone with a different opinion is a Nazi.
1 posted on 10/05/2016 11:24:40 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Don’t like conservatives?

Call ‘em Nazis.

The latest excess from the Left.


2 posted on 10/05/2016 11:26:32 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Lorianne

Only in the media, who forget Hitler was a left winger, and the NAZI party was the National Socialist party.


3 posted on 10/05/2016 11:26:39 AM PDT by Mr. K (<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/1adpjl"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1adpjl.jpg" title="made at im)
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To: Lorianne

Right-Wing = Nazi.


4 posted on 10/05/2016 11:26:56 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: Lorianne

“”The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France” —Adolf Hitler


5 posted on 10/05/2016 11:27:58 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Hating Islam is the natural consequence of caring about people in the Middle East, including Muslims)
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To: Lorianne

More melodramatics from the scared left-


6 posted on 10/05/2016 11:29:15 AM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Lorianne

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

Or NAZI party means

The National Socialist German workers party

Hitler was a socialist

LEFT WING


7 posted on 10/05/2016 11:29:56 AM PDT by Mr. K (<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/1adpjl"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1adpjl.jpg" title="made at im)
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To: All

Laugh at them when they call you racist/bigot/homophobe/Nazi...


8 posted on 10/05/2016 11:34:22 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: Lorianne

They still won’t even fly their own flag outside their homes. That’s how bad it is.


9 posted on 10/05/2016 11:36:07 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Lorianne

Whenever the left feels threatened to their power, they cry Nazi and Hitler. It works every time even though Lenin, Stalin and Mao killed far more people than Hitler ever did.


10 posted on 10/05/2016 11:43:14 AM PDT by Rebel2016
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To: Lorianne
They throw around labels while the people just want the invasion to stop.

This what Hillary wants to bring here, and that should be the issue here in the United States.

By election day Trump and his supporters will be labeled Nazis. The effect will be the same as when she called us “deplorables” except it will be even worse for their campaign.

Voter turnout for Trump will be YUUUGE!

11 posted on 10/05/2016 11:43:20 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Lorianne

The Berman Nazis were ONLY conservative in SOME of their propaganda (to appeal to the “classical nationalists” ie. the people who were loyal to the Kaiser system ) , MOST of their MEANS and METHODS were definitely Socialist, Progressives and Communist.


12 posted on 10/05/2016 11:51:50 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Rebel2016

[ Whenever the left feels threatened to their power, they cry Nazi and Hitler. It works every time even though Lenin, Stalin and Mao killed far more people than Hitler ever did. ]

Hell, Stalin killed about the same number of Jews that Hitler did, but he used other means like starving them to death on their own farms and sending them to Siberia instead of using Gas chambers. And also that Hitler specifically targeted Jews and others as a racial/cultural group(s), while Stalin just killed anyone who wasn’t loyal to the state.

The reason the Stalin lovers hated Hitler was that Hitler believed in Borders (though he believed in expanding his borders) while Stalin was more of an Internationalist, who spread communism via subversion first then surround borders later.

It was their means of spreading socialism that differed as well.


13 posted on 10/05/2016 11:56:41 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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14 posted on 10/05/2016 11:57:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mr. K

I think that from now on I will type it as it really was “National SOCIALIST Party”


15 posted on 10/05/2016 12:14:15 PM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (New York Times: "We print the news as it fits our views.")
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

Imagine if they had named it the “Socialist Nationalist Party”.

Then they would have been called “Sozis” instead, and most likely the “Nationalist” part wouldn’t have been emphasized nearly as much. And Nationalism has been permanently tainted because of what the Nazis did.


16 posted on 10/05/2016 12:20:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lorianne

Nazi is Socialist, not conservative.


17 posted on 10/05/2016 12:54:58 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: GraceG
There weren't 6 million Jews in the USSR, especially after the Holocaust. Don't misunderstand me, Stalin was implimenting his final solution to the Jewish question, a death march through Siberia to Birobizian, when he died. Fortunately, his pretext, The Doctors' Plot, may have led to his death. After his competent doctors were arrested for being communists of Jewish descent or refusing to denounce the same, the new doctors dithered as Stalin lay dying, lest them piss anyone off or cause Stalin pain.
Stalin did kill millions including some Jews in the starvation campaign.
18 posted on 10/05/2016 5:48:43 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Lorianne

To these UN criminals, anyone who is not a Socialist, a Communist, a Globalist, or a Muslim is labeled a Nazi.


19 posted on 10/05/2016 7:40:30 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (The Democrats are so lacking in class, especially the avant-garde.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

".....and the 'un' un-Nazied the world....forever."

20 posted on 10/05/2016 7:41:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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