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• 4861brown commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  The first Nazis were socialist, sort of. to get the big money from big industrialists he killed the Storm Troopers who were full of his early supporters. In the Night of the Long Knives, the SS killed them all. Then the Nazis got the really big money....
• Trottelreiner commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  Oh no, it's starting again... The first Nazis were socialist, sort of. It depends somewhat on your definition of "socialist", which is somewhat murky even with historians. Also note that in Europe, state intervention into economics, state ownership of industries etc. is also something with the right, e.g. some conservatives. And actually, if you look for their peers, the early Nazis were more of an offshot of what is called the "völkisch" movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Völkisch_movement Not that early social democracy doesn't have its anti-semitic skeletons in the closet, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Dühring As for the idea of "National Socialism", if we look for...
• a.harrowell commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  The biography you're after is that of Karl Mayr, who was literally Hitler's army intelligence handler, and later the Nazis' top fundraiser, doing the rounds of rich old ladies in Munich and being the Völkischer Beobachter's diplomatic correspondent, before he became disillusioned with Hitler and helped organise the SPD's loyalist paramilitary, as well as running a scandal sheet investigating prominent Nazis. He fled to Paris after 1933, but was still there in June 1940 and was arrested by a special Gestapo task force. They stuck him in Dachau where he was listed as a "special category detainee, refer to Adolf...
• 4861brown commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  I've into how the world got into this mess for longer than many of you have been alive. "Germany Between the Wars" would answer a lot of the posts questions It has many sources and they mach what I found. I agree with it so it must be true, right....
• Robert commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  You're right that the UK currently has no need to deter a nuclear attack, because there's no realistic risk of such, a state of affairs that will continue for the foreseeable future, but how long is that? The chances of a new Stalin gaining full dictatorial power in the USA or China within the next 20 years seem pretty small, but what about the next 50 years, possibly in countries not currently great powers? Hopefully, such a development, or any other change in world affairs that left the UK needing a nuclear capability, wouldn't take the Foreign Office completely by...