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To: kosciusko51
Not to mention, the Nazi party platform was against private industry. See Points 13, 14, and 25.

Note the date of the document! Note point 22!

22. We demand the abolition of hireling troops and the creation of a national army.

I don't think they followed that to closely, eh?

Or how about point 24?

24. We demand freedom for all religious denominations, provided that they do not endanger the existence of the State or offend the concepts of decency and morality of the Germanic race. The Party as such stands for positive Christianity, without associating itself with any particular denomination.

So much for not being the Party of Point being, by the time Hitler came to power, Nazism was not a specific ideology, but a conflation of ideas, concepts, and philosophies meant to realise the mythic ethnostate of Großdeutschland (Greater Germany).

As long as you brought it up, these other points

8. Any further immigration of non-Germans is to be prevented.
6. Only a Citizen is entitled to decide the leadership and laws of the State.
11. The abolition of all income obtained without labor or effort.

are not traditional leftist beliefs.

51 posted on 03/07/2010 6:39:06 PM PST by jimmyray
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To: jimmyray
Note the date of the document!

I thought you would bring that up. According to the sources I found, this platform was never altered. You can find more here.

Note point 22! ok

22. We demand the abolition of hireling troops and the creation of a national army.

If I read this correctly, they demanded the abolition of hiring mercenaries, and then creating a national army, as there was no army in Germany in 1920, as it had been disbanded after WWI.

Or how about point 24? ok

24. We demand freedom for all religious denominations, provided that they do not endanger the existence of the State or offend the concepts of decency and morality of the Germanic race. The Party as such stands for positive Christianity, without associating itself with any particular denomination.

This is no different than the State church in China. It is not religious freedom.

As long as you brought it up, these other points
8. Any further immigration of non-Germans is to be prevented.
6. Only a Citizen is entitled to decide the leadership and laws of the State.
11. The abolition of all income obtained without labor or effort.
are not traditional leftist beliefs.

Nor are they necessarily traditional right-wing beliefs. These are more center-of-the road ideas.

53 posted on 03/07/2010 6:53:10 PM PST by kosciusko51
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