Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Hitler the Peacenik


One topic in politics that seems to have been almost completely silenced is how Leftist Hitler was. Any suggestion that he was a socialist (which is what he himself said he was) is shrilly denounced. Well, my tongue is untied on the matter so I am putting up below a picture of a Nazi propaganda poster of the 1930s that you won't believe unless you are aware of how readily all Leftists preach one thing and do another. It reads "Mit Hitler gegen den Ruestungswahnsinn der Welt".



And what does that mean? It means "With Hitler against the armaments madness of the world". "Ruestung" could more precisely be translated as "military preparations" but "armaments" is a bit more idiomatic in English.

So even the preaching of "peace" by the bloodthirsty Soviet regime of the cold war period had its parallel among the Nazis of the 1930s. You have now seen it with your own eyes.