The Nazis were Fascists.
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Replying to @PumpknSpiceSoul @gorskon and
The Nazis were Socialist in the same way the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is Democratic. It was the sales pitch. It bore no resemblance to the product.
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Replying to @MichaelKuhl @DavidNeiwert and
It was their ploy to peel off workers who wanted what socialism could get them but were wary of anything that looked like a Bolshevik approach, which the German socialists seemed like to many. (They were called "Sozis." Both terms were used as insults)
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Replying to @jlr_1969 @MichaelKuhl and
Meanwhile the social democrats were scared of the socialists and were happy to sell them out, but this then left them defenseless against the Nazis, and the conservatives helped with the rest thinking they could control Hitler. A little like Paul Ryan nowadays, was Von Papen.
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Replying to @jlr_1969 @MichaelKuhl and
And then the first thing the Nazis did when they took power was outlaw trade unions, bind all workers to their jobs and made them join a "labor front" that essentially militarized and enslaved them. On behalf of the bosses who'd funded the Nazis.
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Replying to @PumpknSpiceSoul @MichaelKuhl and
There probably is but I didn't get it from that; I've been reading up on them since being terrified by a TV version of Shirer's RISE & FALL OF THE 3rd REICH. Which is this, but I recommend the book; essential and detailed on that aspect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGDXXeFqY8 …
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Replying to @jlr_1969 @PumpknSpiceSoul and
The film isn't long enough to go into thorough detail on the way the workers were screwed. The book goes into quite some detail. Shirer is pretty reliable because he was there when it was happening, reporting from Berlin.
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He's reliable on many things, other things not so much, mainly historical interpretation. I highly recommend Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, which makes it clear that Hitler was no socialist, and Richard J. Evans' three volume history of the Third Reich.
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