I might be too ignorant to put this in the proper context, but what do you make of the so-called Beefsteak Nazis (i.e. leftists who joined the Nazis)? Not to say the Nazis were in any way authentically leftist, but they did use leftist rhetoric (see Strasserism) to get left-wing, working class support.
First time I hear that term, it is not used in German. Yeah, there was a minority wing in the NSDAP who had some socialists views. The NSDAP was not a monolithic group, unlike many might believe. They also had a lot of esoteric people. Edit: all of them were fascists though, not communists nor liberals.
But they are not the ones who brought Hitler to power. That was Paul von Hindenburg, Franz von Papen, a group of industrialists (Industrielleneingabe) and, of course, the people, that voted for him.
Yeah, I wouldn’t imagine the communists and socialists brought Hitler to power, lol - though it sounds like I need to educate myself more. Do you have any primer you would recommend on this topic?
This happened in Germany in the early forties…
Not really. It was more that conservatives thought they could controll the far right and made appeasement their main doctrine.
The left (that was a lot more left than nowadays) was always against the Nazis.
Edit: and that was in the mid 30s.
I might be too ignorant to put this in the proper context, but what do you make of the so-called Beefsteak Nazis (i.e. leftists who joined the Nazis)? Not to say the Nazis were in any way authentically leftist, but they did use leftist rhetoric (see Strasserism) to get left-wing, working class support.
First time I hear that term, it is not used in German. Yeah, there was a minority wing in the NSDAP who had some socialists views. The NSDAP was not a monolithic group, unlike many might believe. They also had a lot of esoteric people. Edit: all of them were fascists though, not communists nor liberals.
But they are not the ones who brought Hitler to power. That was Paul von Hindenburg, Franz von Papen, a group of industrialists (Industrielleneingabe) and, of course, the people, that voted for him.
It is all pretty well documented.
Yeah, I wouldn’t imagine the communists and socialists brought Hitler to power, lol - though it sounds like I need to educate myself more. Do you have any primer you would recommend on this topic?