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Originally Posted by Swingblade
Small minority of Nazi skin heads in the U S and you know their main motivation is racism of Jews and people of color not gun control or confiscation. They have some twisted logic about Hitler also, I would bet most skin heads are pro gun. But if Hitler was alive today he would be protesting against the present day Nazi skin heads and their pro gun stance.
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Most people don't read enough about the period between the World Wars....even that before Hitler became chancellor. There is a great book about it and this type of history should clarify perfect who was "right" and who was "left".
After their slaughter in WWI, the German people were not too happy about their government (The Kaiser).
To put it in simple terms, Germany turned "democratic" almost immediately with women given the right to vote and the voting age lowered and more democratic institutions.
However, the entire population - especially the "leftovers" of the military, was heavily armed due to the surplus from WWI.
The so-called Weimar Republic was basically moderate (although, as now, Germans had a dozen or more political parties)....note the following quote:
"In this time, the radical left-wing parties, including the USPD and KPD, were barely able to get themselves organised, leading to a solid majority of seats for the MSPD moderate forces"
Ok, so we can see that Germany, in a political sense, was on the way to freedom. Voter turnout was great.
When economic and social strife occurred as a result of the privations of the war, infighting started. This is the chapter that most Americans never study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikorps
"In the aftermath of World War I and during the German Revolution of 1918–19,
Freikorps consisting largely of World War I veterans were raised as right-wing paramilitary militias, ostensibly to fight on behalf of the government"
"The
Freikorps were widely seen as a precursor to Nazism, and many of their volunteers ended up joining the Nazi militia, the Sturmabteilung (SA)"
Too long to detail in this post, but these trained WWI Soldiers put down unions, working people's movements and any other forms of government (other than right wing) with mass murder using weapons of war. That was a complete victory for the Right Wing Forces which eventually then backed Hitler.
The Last Straw was the Enabling Act, where Hitler declared he could create law by decree.
As anyone can see, there is no LEFT WING involved except as dead bodies at the end of machine guns used by the Freikorps...and this was long before WWII was even considered.
Later, Hitler rounded up anyone who was even lightly associated with "power to the people" and that type of stuff....and sent them off to concentration camps.
Anyway, point is - none of this stuff "just happens". There is a runup to it over decades.
There was never a shortage of "arms" among the citizenry. Even the "dead lefties" had plenty, but they weren't much good against trained paramilitary forces marching in formation with even more guns and skills.
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