[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Obscuring ones past seems to be a common tactic for marxist politicians.

[Flag_This]

"Little is known about Hitler before 1920 as many who knew him in his early years were murdered in the 1934 Nazi purge known as the night of a thousand knives."

Pretty sure that should be "night of the long knives."

[hinckley buzzard]

Whatever. Hitler certainly had no love for the Communist Party in Germany, seeing them as competitors and rivals rather than as allies. And if he ever flirted with marxism he never tried to implement it, as it would have undermined his "Fuhrer Prinzip".

[Old Seadog]

I never could understand why the Nazis were considered as an extreme right wing organization and the Communist Party is an extreme left wing group.

[Chode]

he was a National Socialist but because of his inheritance i doubt he was a communist...

[EveningStar]

ping

[TBP]

Why do you think the Nazi flag was red?

[central_va]

Socialists are not communists. Socialists enjoy al the trappings of capitalism while controlling the masses thru taxation and regulation. Communists are true believers and look at socialists like weak phony moderates, they are not friends.

[Revolting cat!]

Oh, for goodness sake - the fascists were nationalist and the communist internationalist. They hated each other’s guts!

[the invisib1e hand]

It is known that he lived in Vienna as a bohemian artist and that he associated with the artist community. Hitler had inherited money from his late father and as a result he never had to work.

sounds like about 9/10 of the imbecils at Zuccotti Park.

[lurk]

The Nazis were more specific about who they killed, so they had a body count of only 6 million. Communists kill pretty much anyone they want to kill, and are more like 100 million.

So obviously, national socialism is better and more fun.

[Lazlo in PA]

It sounds like Springtime for Hitler for me.

[Rocky]

Excellent. Thanks for your post.

A lot of people have accepted the Left’s lie that Hitler is on the right and communism and socialism are on the left.

Nazism is on the left also. The fact that Hitler didn’t like the Russians doesn’t mean he wasn’t a socialist.

[vladimir998]

The background of Eisner’s assassin is fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Graf_von_Arco_auf_Valley

[the invisib1e hand]

it is pointless to split hairs about what shade of totalitarian psychopath one is.

[4rcane]

no. Hitler was no Communist, he was a socialist

[Revolting cat!]

Apparently, as an aftereffect of Spanish colonialism, there is a shortage of last names in the Phillippines, causing all kinds of problems with record keeping, credit ratings, criminal records, and so on. To fight the confusion parents resort to giving their children unusual and unique first names. An article I read some years ago mentioned a fellow whose first name was Hitler, which doesn’t resonate in that culture the same way it would in the West.

[cruise_missile]

Hitler had a funny name before he changed it.

Alois Schicklgruber became Adolf Hitler.

[PzLdr]

Hitler considered Marxism as the political creature and creation of Jews [Marx, Trotsky, Zinoviev, etc], and as internationalist in nature. As an anti-Semite and a German [one might say Pan-German] nationalist, he abhorred Marxism. Adolf Hitler was NO Communist.

[wastedyears]

What’s the difference if he was a Fascist, Marxist, Leninist, Socialist, Hitlerist(?), or a Communist? They’re all dictators, and that everybody puts Fascist on the right side of the political divide is a travesty.