Posted on 06/30/2021 7:11:48 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In the dark hours this date in 1934, a bargain with the devil was sealed in blood.
Months before, even mere hours before, it was still possible for longstanding adherents of the National Socialist Workers’ Party to demand the “Socialist” part of the program.
The SA and the SS will not tolerate the German revolution going to sleep and being betrayed at the half-way stage by non-combatants. … It is in fact high time the national revolution stopped and became the National Socialist one. Whether [the bourgeoisie] like it or not, we will continue our struggle — if they understand at last what it is about — with them; if they are unwilling — without them; and if necessary — against them.
Populist, not Bolshevik. (In fact, stridently anti-communist.) Nevertheless, a distinct menace by the have-nots against the haves.*
Especially so because they were the words not of some impotent scribbler but of Ernst Roehm, commander of the the Nazis’ paramilitary brownshirts. And threatening, too, for Adolf Hitler for this same reason: his ascension the previous year to the Chancellorship had entailed terms with a German elite who needed but mistrusted the man’s mass party. Something was going to have to give.
The Communist exile Leon Trotsky’s 1933 analysis of the infant Nazi Germany’s dynamics proved prescient...
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Nazis and Bolsheviks - Two rabid dogs fighting over the same bone.
Nazis are National Socialist, Communists are International Socialists.
That’s about all the difference.
An irony is that Stalin was himself a “National Socialist”, he had no interest in Trotsky’s “Internationalism”, only “Socialism In One Country”, his foreign policy goals were no different than that of the Czars.
Bkmk
And the ‘international’ socialists of the Soviet Union, in general, demanded the submission of Communists in other countries.
In fact, Stalin pretty much told Hitler where all the German Communists were, and cheered as Hitler executed them.
Stalin was deathly afraid that the Communists would have taken over Germany and took the mantle of world Communist leadership from the Soviets.
Didn’t antifa start up in that time period in Germany?
People forget, or never learned that the Nazis were all about gathering wealth for themselves. Hitler died the richest man in Germany. He collected royalties on his book (copies were required in every library and school, every married couple were given a copy), his image (all those ‘Hitler’ stamps paid him). The other Nazi big-wigs also had huge wealth, perhaps the most famous being Goering.
But even far down the food chain, SS guards at camps made a little extra by reselling clothes to camp inmates.
If you were going to steal "State Property" as the Nazis liked to call the loot they stole from the Jews, you'd better have had a friend high up in the SS chain of command, because the stories are that they were very strict about SS Men looting the Jews property for their own personal gain. Some SS men were even executed for it.
You are likely right. They viewed that as stealing from the Nazis, not the Jews. Those masterpiece paintings were for Goering not some lowly SS schmuck.
But you know that the companies that turned out all of those snappy uniforms were sending large bundles of cash to a party muckity-muck. Think of all the armbands, flags, banners that decorated German cities...And that’s not even getting into the armaments.
There was also the contract to supply the Zyklon-B to the Death Camps.
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Nazis are National Socialist, Communists are International Socialists.
That’s about all the difference.”
Different uniforms.
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