[rokkitapps]

nazis hated communists.

[GeronL]

They were fighting for the same bone, as the article says

[ClearCase_guy]

Both were undeniably Collectivist philosophies. They wanted a powerful government that could play favorites with some groups and punish other groups.

[PzLdr]

Not all of them. The Strasser brothers led the left wing of the Party until the erarly 30s. Gregor Strasser was touted as an alternativer to Hitler, by no less than Joseph Goebbels.

Roehm’s SA was very left wing. Stenns [the SA head in Berlin] led a revolt against the Gauleiter, Goebbels. Roehm kept calling for the second revolution, and wanted the Army to merge with the SA under his leadership. He made impolitic remarks to the tune of with Hitler or without him. the SA in the early 30s was so left, the phrase “Beefsteak Nazi: Brown on the outside, Red on the inside” became common.

The left wing of the Nazi Party was broken in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Gregor Strasser was shot. Roehm was shot. Otto Strasser fled for his life. The SA was neutered. The winners? Hitler, and Himmler, Heydrich and the SS.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Because they had so much in common.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Because they had so much in common.

[reg45]

nazis hated communists.

Kinda like Bloods and Crips, same thuggery, different name.

[reg45]

nazis hated communists.

Kinda like Bloods and Crips, same thuggery, different name.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“nazis hated communists.”

But both were cut from the same cloth. Both Hitler and Mussolini were socialists who believed in Marxism, and came to fascism from that mindset. That socialism and fascism are characterized as at opposite ends of a political spectrum is a fallacy that serves ‘leftists’ well.