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It's really no problem at all. They were exactly what their name states. The National Socialists Germans Worker Party. Hitler mande deals with industrialists and the conservative military for purely prgamatic reasons. Hitler was a sharp student of history. He observed two things about the Communist revolution if Russia. The first was that the revolutionaries had the vast majority of the "proletariate" behind them. He knew he could not acheive that and without that backing a revolution was unable to succeed. A lesson the beginning of which went back to the beer hall putsch. He needed the backing, financial and political, of the industrialists and military. He also observed that as soon as the middle and upper class managers of the mines and manufacturers they broke. Nothing worked anymore, no one knew how to run them. The amateuristic attemots by party appointed hacks hadn't the slightest idea of how to get things done. It completely devestated the nation until the early thirties. He also observed that the Red Army was very nearly defeated by the White Russians whose leadership is best described as clownish. Denikin, Kolchak and Yudenich could have been beaten by boy scouts. Hitler knew very well he needed to make deals with these people if Germany were to rise again and acheive the ambitions he desired. That he purged what can best be described as the Trotskyite types in his party's power structure like Ernst Roehm and Gregor Strasser only encouraged those who were to portray his movement as rightists. Even Josef Goebbels was preparing to ditch him at one time in favor of communism. It's just that Hitler, like Staling before him, couldn't tolerate a constant state of revolution so like Stalin's purge of Trotsky Hitler purged his most radical left. Another misleading factor were the street brawls which occurred between Nazis and Communists. This has led many stupid people to conclude they were ideological enemies. A simple, logical examination of the reasoning behind this will lead one to the proper conclusion. Two gangs don't fight over their own turfs, they fight over their rivals. The Communists and Nazis were fighting over the same segment of the electorate. They were rivals for the same voters and voters will not be influenced to turn their attitude 180 degrees because of street brawls.
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...:))
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