Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

Don Swayser wrote:

> I know more about the rise of Hitler than you could possibly know Brian. 
> His earliest supporters were ordinary people who were radical leftists 
> and were looking for an alternative to communism. After Goering returned 
> from exile in Sweden he opened doors for Hitler to industrialists. His 
> first supporters were, in particular, I. G. Farben, Fritz Thyssen 
> (Steel), Emil Kirdorf (Coal), August Diehn and August Rosterg (Potash), 
> Whilhelm Cuno (Shipping, Hamburg American line), Otto Wolf 
> (Industrialist), the Deutsch Bank, the Commerz und Privat Bank, the 
> Dresdener Bank and the Allianz Insurance A.G.. ALL OF THEM WERE GERMANS 
> Brian.

Yes.  One of the frustrating things about trying to categorize
the Nazi party as left or right, capitalist or socialist, etc., is
that the left hand often ignored what the right hand was doing, or
deliberately misdirected attention.  The "program" was so vague that
it could be interpreted as almost anything by Nazis from different
social backgrounds and philosophies and economic classes.  It becomes
a sort of historical Rorschach blot that drives historians nuts.

(What's really interesting is finding tidbits of feminist theory in
some of the radical Nazi women's groups. Shhh...don't tell Rush; there
really _were_ feminazis...:))

Rat
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