But then he claimed that Hitler and Stalin were essentially the same.

And yet only one was History’s Greatest Monster.

Can any of the regressives here tell the rest of us which side that one was on?

Because if history serves, he was on the right.

Now get the fuck out of my class.

Trust me, you have no need to be concerned about how I feel about, but you are wasting your time, and I do not plan to post to, or even read, this thread again.

All of the Communists’ enemies were not on the right. The politics in Germany during the “between the wars” era makes Italy’s look like a stable, two - party system. All of the Nazis’ enemies were not on the left.

Four thousand Communists inclulding virutally the entire party leadership were immediately arrested, beaten up, tortured and thrown into newly created concentration camps. There was no let up in the campaign of violence and brutality in the weeks that followed. By the end of march the Prussian police reported over 20,000 Communists were in prison. By the summer over 100,000 communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists and others had been arrested, with even official estimates putting the number of death in custody at 600. All of this was sanctioned by an emergency decree signed by Hindenburg the night after the fire suspending civil liberties and allowing the cabinet to take any necessary measures to protect public saftey.” p11-12, Evans

All of which is to say, that the nazis moved fast to wrap the violence and thuggery that brought them to power in the mantle of officialdom and state authority. This power was directed at their political enemies with the greatest force in the beginning. The Nazis moved fast as well to implement laws against the Jews, the handicapped, homosexuals etc., that’s clear as well, but the first people to end up in Nazis concentration camps were communists, social democrats, labor activists etc. They were the guinea pigs for the system of extermination to come.

“The Third Reich’s elaborate apparatus pf policiing and repressions was directed in the first place at hunting down and apprehedning Nazism’s enemies withing Germany. Organized opposition to Nazism was offered only by the Communists and the Social Democrats in the early years of the dictatorship. The left-wiong political parties had won 1.3 million votes in Germany’s last fully free election, in November 1932, to the Nazis’ 11.7 million. They represented a huge chun of the German electorate. Yet they had no effective means of standinfg up to Nazi violence. Their entire apparatuse, along with that of their paramilitary wings, the “red Fron-Fighters League and the Reichsbanner, and associated origanizations such as the trade unions, was ruthlessly swept aside in the first months of 1933, their leaders exiled or imprisonned, their millions of members and supporters, many of them looking back on a lifetimes; commitment to the cause, isolated and disoriented. Former activists were placed under more or less permanent surrveilance, shadowed, their correspondence and contacts monitored. Divided, mutually hostile and taken by sruprise at the speed and ruthlessness of the Nazis seizure of pwoer, they were initially helpless and uncertain how to act.” p. 55 The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939 Richard J. Evans

Nice. Not a rebuttal, just more bullshit. Seems typical of you Frank.

Gregor Strasser, Nazi theoretician

From our post war perspective Nazis belong to the extreme right, but in reality they prove the circular nature of the political spectrum with the extremes so far apart that they are next to each other. Stalin and Hitler didn’t sign The Nazi-Soviet pact because they both felt they were opposites.

That is to say, it’s not based in fact, it’s based in wishful thinking.

Then again, here I am trying to appeal to the rationality of someone who’s trying to convice us that Hitler was a commie.

By the way, Frank, if you deliberately put your head above the parapet, you don’t get to complain when people shoot at you.