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To: Taro who wrote (379497)	4/21/2008 12:09:47 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573924

"Brumar ain't Hitler." What you should have said is "I knew Hitler and Brumar is no Hitler." Stolen from Lloyd Bensten's attack on Dan Quayle in 88 election. (g)

To: Taro who wrote (379497)	4/21/2008 2:52:40 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573924

"Brumar didn't, Hitler did. Brumar ain't Hitler." Whatever. Why is it important to pretend that the Nazis were socialists? They weren't, no matter what they said. The closest you can come to a socialist policy was the creation of the Volkswagon. And, strangely enough, that factory wound up producing military vehicles before it produced cars for the civilian market. And many of their policies, like the way workers figured into the system, were 180 degrees from any strain of socialism. The workers were far from controlling the means of production. Not that they really were in the Soviet Union. But the government pretended they were. The Nazis didn't even pretend.