>>It was the Socialists in Germany that voted Hitler in.<<
Actually, no. The Socialist Party in Germany, the SDP, was opposed to the National Socialist Party, the NSDAP.
After the death of Hindenberg, when Hitler took power and anointed himself dictator, the Nazis set up concentration camps for the Socialists and the Communists long before they started putting Jews in concentration camps.
Hitler, like many Germans, blamed the Socialists for the defeat of Germany in WWI, and he hated the Weimar Republic, which was in large part socialist.
I studied the history of the Nazi Party in a graduate level history course at George Mason this past summer. The instructor was Dr. Peter Black, chief historian at the Holocaust Museum. One of the textbooks I'd recommend is Inside Hitler's Germany by Benjamin Sax and Dieter Kuntz.
I don't dispute that fascism is a form of collectivism, as is communism and socialism, but they differ in important ways. I would say that our present government is more collectivist than individualist but that doesn't make us Fascists - or Communists. |
