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To: jimmyray
He was also a National Fascist, appealing to the traditional “Right” values of God, Guns and Country

Guns? When did Hitler make a pitch to gun rights? I never heard that before. Please specify. As to God, I suppose that Nazis made some general appeal to religion but I don't this was too important. Hitler was not particularly religious, nor were his advisors. Also, I don't recall reading that he emphasized this in his speeches. His big issues were the "stab in the big," high unemployment. and pride in the German "race," not particularly German Lutheranism or Catholicism.

16 posted on 03/07/2010 4:22:57 PM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: jimmyray

that’s “stab in the back”


18 posted on 03/07/2010 4:23:44 PM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk
An interesting statement from the Wiki article on National Socialism:

Nazism is a politically syncretic variety of fascism, which incorporates policies, tactics and philosophic tenets from left and right-wing politics. As such, Italian Fascism and German Nazism reject liberalism, democracy, and Marxism, as practical forms of government. Usually supported by the far right (military, business, Church), fascism also is historically anti-communist, anti-conservative, and anti-parliamentary.

Hitler did capitalize on the common man's belief in God, and got the aquiescence of some mainline churches, include the Catholics, from what I've read. He killed of many of those that did not go along.

As far as the guns part, I was referring to the fact that Hitler did not confiscate guns from German citizens, but he did from conquered territories and Jews.

25 posted on 03/07/2010 4:53:17 PM PST by jimmyray
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To: Captain Kirk
His big issues were the "stab in the big," high unemployment. and pride in the German "race," not particularly German Lutheranism or Catholicism.

While true prima facia, Anti-Jewsih sentiment was supported by the writings of Luther, especially "On the Jews and their Lies", which Julius Streicher, the editor of Der Stürmer, described as the most radically anti-Semitic tract ever published.

28 posted on 03/07/2010 5:10:25 PM PST by jimmyray
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