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GoldenEagle1776 24 points ago +26 / -2

To be fair with national socialism, it at least let the German people stay German. If the commies got into power German culture would go the way of China.

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ScullyMully 7 points ago +12 / -5

To be fair with national socialism, it at least let the German people stay German.

That's like saying the Japanese Fascists let the Japanese be Japanese. When they extolled the worst to increase their power.

You can repudiate the anti-American domestic Ultra-Leftist Cultural Revolutionaries without grasping to find something complimentary to say about the god-damned fucking Nazis.

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OranjeBlanjeBlou 10 points ago +11 / -1

When looking for the most aggressive commie-fighters in the world, you’re not actually grasping if your results come up German

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somethinga9230k 1 point ago +1 / -0

Was Karl Marx ethnically German? Did he move from Germany as a somewhat young adult and later end up in London?

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ScullyMully -1 points ago +2 / -3

...until they went all-in in East Germany, whose spies infiltrated West Germany.

If you must find credit, there's Francisco Franco, who defeated the Soviet-backed Communists, to the chagrin of Western artists, writers and other sympathizers.

But he was anti-US, anti-capitalism.

We have Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart, all-American, pro-USA, anti-Communist. Don't need to find a good word to say about monsters when we have authentic heroes.

EDIT: and we also had Communist sympathizers like Sterling Hayden, even then:

Hayden's admiration for the bravery of the Communist partisans led to a brief membership in the Communist Party from 1946.

He was apparently active in supporting an effort by the Communist-controlled motion picture painters union to absorb other film industry unions.

Big, strong, American Alpha Male Communist

EDIT: Downvotes by present-day Lord Haw-Haw

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somethinga9230k 3 points ago +3 / -0

A larger quote, taken from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_Rauschning :

It is not Germany that will turn Bolshevist but Bolshevism that will become a sort of National Socialist. Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.... Our spirit is so strong, and the power of our magnificent movement to transform souls so elemental, that men are remodeled against their will... A social revolution would lend me new, unsuspected powers. I do not fear permeation with revolutionary Communist propaganda.

This indicates that he believed certain communists could be converted to something non-communist. Especially this part: "[...] transform souls so elemental, that men are remodeled against their will [...]" . I haven't investigated whether Hermann Rauschning was trustworthy or not, however.

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ScullyMully 6 points ago +6 / -0

There is no downside go to badmouthing Adolf Hitler.

He was a fucking inbred weirdo. His parents were cousins