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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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To: kosciusko51
Oh, but the way, from 2349-PS : Excerpts from Rosenberg's The Myth of the 20th Century, 1941:

"THE MYTH OF THE 20TH CENTURY by Alfred Rosenberg

Published by Hoheneichen Publishing House, Muenchen 1941.

[Page 215]

We recognize today that the central maximum values of the Roman and the Protestant Church as negative Christianity do not correspond to our soul, that they are in the way of the organic forces of the Nordic racially determined peoples, must give way to them (these forces), and must let themselves be re-evaluated in the sense of a Germanic Christianity. That is the thought behind today's religious searching.

[Page 514]

The idea of honor-national honor-is for us the beginning and end of our entire thinking and doing. It does not admit of any equal-valued center of force alongside of it, no matter of what kind. neither Christian love, nor the Free-Masonic humanity, nor the Roman philosophy.

[Page 608]

A German religious movement which would like to develop into a folk-church will have to declare that the idea of neighborly love is unconditionally to be subordinated to the idea of national honor, that no act of a German church may be approved which does not primarily serve the safeguarding of the folkdom.

[Page 616]

A German religion will, bit by bit, present in the churches transferred to it, in place of the crucifixion the spirit of fire- the heroic-in the highest sense."

55 posted on 03/07/2010 7:01:32 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51
22. We demand the abolition of hireling troops and the creation of a national army.

Good catch on that. I thought it meant the abolition of both, but your reading makes more sense, especially in light of the Roman experience. Thanks for the correction.

As far as to whether points 6, 8 and 11, I would assert they are now rightist beliefs, because the middle has become left leaning, e.g. 8-border fences and troops, 6-birthers, and 11-Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, welfare, etc.

58 posted on 03/07/2010 7:09:07 PM PST by jimmyray
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To: kosciusko51

On a completely separate note, I hit the link you provided and it referenced several laws passed regulating the Jews, which reminded me of some lines in the Magna Carta. Same sort of contentious issues, 700 years earlier! See points 10 and 11.


61 posted on 03/07/2010 7:17:12 PM PST by jimmyray
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