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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: The Shame of the President
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 12:08:35 EDT
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> 
>By the way, can we all stop using that misleading abbreviation "Nazi"?  It's
>short for "National Socialist" in German, and a lot of modern day socialists
>would like for people to forget what Hitler's economic policies were all about,
>in the same way that they would like people to forget that "fascism" is 
>Italian for "collectivism".  As much as you may like to pretend differently,
>Hitler and Mussolini's movements were outgrowths of socialism.  They were
>called "right wing" because the conservatives throughout Europe have tended
>towards variations of socialism and collectivism.  "Right wing" in the American
>tradition has NOTHING to do with the right wing traditions of Europe.

Ah, the old chesnut about how socialist the National Socialists were.  The
part of the party who really took the economic propaganda of the party
seriously were purged shortly after Hitler had consolidated power.  Did
large capitalists disappear under Hitler?  No.

Why don't you take the time to read Shirer's *The Rise and Fall of the
Third Reich*, Karl Dietrich Bracher's work on National Socialism, and
maybe David Abraham's book on Weimar Germany?

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"I am not a Nazi." -- Richard Nixon :-(