forgot the relevant citations: ^ Walter John Raymond. Dictionary of Politics. (1992). ISBN 1-55618-008-X p. 327. ^ Fritzsche, Peter. 1998. Germans into Nazis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ^ Kele, Max H. (1972). Nazis and Workers: National Socialist Appeals to German Labor, 19191933. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ^ Payne, Stanley G. 1995. A History of Fascism, 191445. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ^ Neocleous, Mark. Fascism. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA: University of Minnesota Press, 1997 p. 23. ^ Thomas D. Grant. Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement: activism, ideology and dissolution. London, England, UK; New York, New York, USA: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 30-34, 44. ^ Otis C. Mitchell. Hitler's stormtroopers and the attack on the German Republic, 1919-1933. Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. Pp. 47. ^ Frank McDonough. Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party. Pearson/Longman, 2003. Pp. 64. ^ Blamires, Cyprian; Jackson, Paul. World fascism: a historical encyclopedia, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO, Inc, 2006. p. 61. ^ Bendersky, Joseph W. A history of Nazi Germany: 1919-1945. 2nd ed. Burnham Publishers, 2000. p. 24. p. 30 ^ a b Bendersky, Joseph W. A history of Nazi Germany: 1919-1945. 2nd ed. Burnham Publishers, 2000. p. 24. ^ Simone Gigliotti, Berel Lang. The Holocaust: a reader. Malden, Massachusetts, USA; Oxford, England, UK; Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 14. ^ Richard Bessel. Nazism and War. Paperback Edition. New York, New York, USA: Modern Library, 2004. Pp. 24-27. ^ Lisa Pine. Education in Nazi Germany. Oxford, England, UK; New York, New York, USA: Berg, 2011. Pp. 5. ^ a b Bendersky, Joseph W. A history of Nazi Germany: 1919-1945. 2nd ed. Burnham Publishers, 2000. p. 40.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Nazis were not socialists. They fit the definition of fascism more > than socialism, in fact in the 1920's and 30's they were very > violently opposed to socialism. From Wikipedia: (hey its a good > starter). > > It is a unique variety of fascism that incorporates biological racism > and antisemitism.[5] Nazism was founded out of elements of the > far-right racist völkisch German nationalist movement and the violent > anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture that fought against the > uprisings of communist revolutionaries in post-World War I Germany.[6] > The ideology was developed first by Anton Drexler and then Adolf > Hitler as a means to draw workers away from communism and into > völkisch nationalism.[7] Initially Nazi political strategy focused on > anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, > though such aspects were later downplayed in the 1930s to gain the > support from industrial owners for the Nazis; focus was shifted to > anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.[8] > > ... > > Nazism promoted an economic system that supported a stratified economy > with classes based on merit and talent while rejecting universal > egalitarianism, retaining private property, freedom of contract, and > promoted the creation of national solidarity that would transcend > class distinction.[15][16] The Nazis' official economic policies were > designed to exclusively benefit Aryans while deliberately excluding > non-Aryans. > > --- > > Nope doesn't sound like any form of socialism to me, classic, Fabian, > social democracy or otherwise. It would appear that the canard that > the Nazi's were socialist is just that an extreme right wing lie. > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> Yeah...my keyboard sometimes misses several letters if I am typing fast... >> >> >> So to restate that...anyone that believes that the Nazis were socialists.... >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:38 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: FW: Report: Paul approved racist portions of newsletters >> >> >> A typo maybe? >> >> . >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Eric Roberts >> <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >>> >>> the Nazis we socialists. >> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346582 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
