[Lucy Hamilton]

I’ve read a lot about this subject and I disagree with you.

They really were fanatically anti-Communist, it was genuine, I mean the Marxists were in actual control of parts of Germany....Berlin wasn’t called Red Berlin for nothing.

At one point in the 1920s the Marxists seized control of huge portions of Bavaria and declared Bavaria a Soviet Republic.

The German people at that time, going into the 1930s were facing a rapidly stark choice, support National Socialism or Communism.

The hatred of Communists therefore was real and continued to be real throughout the period.

[jmacusa]

Nazism and Communism were two scorpions in a bottle. National Socialism, fascism really was and always is the ''softer sell'' of any totalitarian regime because it gives the pretense of private ownership. Yes you can own your own factory but we(the state) will control the production process. We will tell you what to make and how to make, what you will pay your ''workers''(not employees), how much you will pay them and what, if anything, you will be paid. yes you can own your own home but we will tell how you're going to live in it. What you will eat, what your will wear, where and what you will work at and what form of health care you will have. Communism makes no pretense of private ownership of anything at all. Everything belongs to the state. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need''. What the two systems have in common is there is no private ownership of ones thoughts, or writings, speech or the press. And no private ownership of firearms.