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To: RegulatorCountry
Nazis were to the right of Stalin, but hardly right wing by our own standards. I recall reading a speech on The Propaganda Archive, of Goebbels going on and on about "We are Socialists!"

I found a similar archive a while back. Makes for some interesting, if disturbing, reading.

However they may have started, by the time they took power, the Nazis were a conglomeration of the most conservative political forces in Germany: The Militarists, the Nationalists, the Monarchists, and the Freikorps. I don't think that any of those had a left-leaning bone in their collective bodies. The left in Germany (communists, et. all) had mostly been driven to emigrate or driven underground by the end of the 20's.

38 posted on 08/16/2006 6:43:16 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Zeroisanumber
I disagree. Simply put, the Nazis advocated socialist ideals, combined with nationalism. They competed for the labor vote with Marxists and international socialists. Their nationalism was the most right wing thing about them. The socialism in "National Socialism" was quite clearly on a par with our own understanding of the meaning of the term, right down to railing against the bourgeoisie.
39 posted on 08/16/2006 6:51:17 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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