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To: jimmyray
How about this quote from Theodore Able, Why Hitler Came Into Power, Harvard University Press, 1938 (as quoted in "Liberal Fascism", p. 74, since it was the easiest place for me to find it):

"... a coal miner ... was 'puzzled by the denial of race and nation implicit in Marxism. Though I was interested in the betterment of the workingman's plight, I rejected [Marxism] unconditionally. I often asked myself why socialism had to be tied up internationalism--why it could not work as well or better in conjunction with nationalism.' A railroad worker concurred, 'I shuddered to the thought of Germany in the grip of Bolshevism. The slogan "Workers of the World Unite!" made no sense to me. At the same time, however, National Socialism, with its promise of a community ... barring all class struggle, attracted me profoundly.' A third work wrote that he embraced the Nazis because of their 'uncompromising will to stamp out the class struggle, snobberies of caste and party hatreds. The movement bore the true message of socialism to the German workingman.'"

They hated the communist because of their internationalism, not their socialist policies.

40 posted on 03/07/2010 5:42:09 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51
The premise that National Socialism resulted in the "barring all class struggle" is off the mark. One could still achieve wealth and fame from his own effort in Nazi Germany. In fact, Hitler stated "“I absolutely insist on protecting private property ... we must encourage private initiative”

Source: Hitler, A.; transl. Norman Cameron, R. H. Stevens; intro. H. R. Trevor-Roper (2000). "March 24, 1942". Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–1944: His Private Conversations. Enigma Books. pp. 162–163.

Hitler was against internationalism, be cause he asserted the Jewish bankers controlled the financing of the same.

45 posted on 03/07/2010 5:56:45 PM PST by jimmyray
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