re: #76 CuriousLurker

BTW, I would add that it’s my understanding that:

I find it odd that the early Nazis would begrudge the Communists their ambition when as early as 1925 it was clear that Hitler wanted to take over the Soviet Union, and by WWII, as much of the rest of the world as he could.

I’m not questioning the veracity of a part of history that you clearly know much more about than I do, I’m just saying that they were very typically hypocritical (i.e. as most extremists are). Extremism seems to cripple one’s critical thinking skills.

It has to do with the extreme chauvinism of the Nazi Party, which was part of what originally attracted Hitler to it. It was always a very “Germany First!” organization, and that made it an enemy of Communism, which at the time sought to break down national boundaries and identities in favor of new “class identities”.

And lastly, neither Nazism nor Communism was prepared to accept the existence of rival parties. So there was a very real sense that the world was not big enough for the two ideologies and so they were bound to hate and fight each other.

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