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Old 09-13-2011, 06:02 PM
kerry kerry is offline
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler View Post
Edited to contain the relevant point I wish to discuss; not to change the character of the quote. msf

Actually, there was a lot of support for Hitler, right here in the USA before the war. Even during the war, until the full measure of the "Final Solution" began to come to light.
American PROGRESSIVES had a lot of good things to say about the way Herr Hitler turned around Germany, even wistfully observing that he was not limited by a Constitution as we were in this country. He got things done!

After the Holocaust became known, they could no longer support fascism, so the myth was spread abroad that fascism was a defect of the political right, conveniently ignoring Mussolini's claim to have always been a socialist. That particular piece of "disinformation" has been so effectively spread that most people now believe fascism's roots are in the political right.
Hitler was strongly anti-Marxist. He was first a nationalist and second a socialist, hence National Socialism.
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