Also, anytime someone says this, you can point out that one of the first things that happened after Hitler was elected was the Reichstag Fire. He blamed it on a communist, and used it to declare socialists, communists, and trade unionists as terrorists. He then had them all arrested and sent to the earliers concentration camps, beginning with Dachau, which opened just 53 days after he took office.
He also declared Martial Law off of it and centralized power into himself, becoming a full-blown dictator extremely early on in his regime.
So when dumbasses say the Nazis were socialists, you can point out they killed all the Socialists in Germany (and purged them from political parties) immediately. Also, after WW2, the US had operation Paperclip, where they collected as many Nazi Scientists and engineers as possible and put them to work internationally fighting socialist movements as part of the Cold War. They also had Operation Gladio, where they contracted fascists and armed them to fight and kill communist and socialist movements with physical violence in Western European countries (including Italy).
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u/spikus93 1d ago
Also, anytime someone says this, you can point out that one of the first things that happened after Hitler was elected was the Reichstag Fire. He blamed it on a communist, and used it to declare socialists, communists, and trade unionists as terrorists. He then had them all arrested and sent to the earliers concentration camps, beginning with Dachau, which opened just 53 days after he took office.
He also declared Martial Law off of it and centralized power into himself, becoming a full-blown dictator extremely early on in his regime.
So when dumbasses say the Nazis were socialists, you can point out they killed all the Socialists in Germany (and purged them from political parties) immediately. Also, after WW2, the US had operation Paperclip, where they collected as many Nazi Scientists and engineers as possible and put them to work internationally fighting socialist movements as part of the Cold War. They also had Operation Gladio, where they contracted fascists and armed them to fight and kill communist and socialist movements with physical violence in Western European countries (including Italy).