The Enduring Power of Nazi Derangement Syndrome
The National Socialist German Workers Party had a rather short life span, existing from 1920-1945. With that “Socialist” word in there, you’d think that it designated some kind of far Left, Bolshevik inspired movement. But from the very beginning, the Nazis- as they came to be known to the world- were depicted as extremely right-wing.
There seems to be no credible evidence that the National Socialists ever called themselves Nazis, and present day “extremists” contend that it was a derogatory term coined by influential German journalist Konrad Heiden, who was predictably enough a Jew. The court historians counter by claiming that in 1926, propagandist extraordinaire Josef Goebbels used the term “Nazi-Sozi” as an abbreviation for National Socialists. Knowing what I do about the absolute lack of credibility on the part of the court historians, I am naturally dubious about this. Thus, I think it’s far more likely that Leftists devised the term as a slur. I suppose it’s “anti-Semitic” just to wonder about this. Like many German Jews, Heiden would later flee to America, where he not surprisingly found a New York publisher for the first critical biography of Adolf Hitler, which recounted the Nazi persecution of anonymous Jews.
Adolf Hitler rose to power on the basis of the horrific German economy, which was devastated even beyond what Americans saw during the worst of the Great Depression. Following World War I, Germany became the first known nation in the history of warfare to be forced to pay those who defeated them on the battlefield. These economic sanctions were so onerous that, as hard as it is to believe, they continued to be paid until 2010. Now, I don’t believe that Hitler, a frustrated artist, started an organic revolt of the common people. Antony Sutton’s Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler did an admirable job of documenting the great powers that were behind him. There has seldom been a grass roots movement in any country without those great powers financing, coordinating, and manipulating it. But much of Hitler’s rheto
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