From: villanova-AT-btopenworld.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:38:07 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: that hitler?


yes, Bullock is very dated, it is only a starting point.  Further reading:
Ian Kershaw: Hitler
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Gordon Craig: The Germans
any of David Irving's biographies of leading Nazis are very good, I suspect your aware of the furore about his writing?
Norman Finkelstein: The Holocaust Industry

Bullock sees German Nazism and Soviet Communism as 2 totalitarian regimes diametrically opposed on paper, but in many other ways, very alike.  However, Hitler also used Capitalism to fuel his dictatorship, and was very anti-Communist.  He was also, and this is where he diverges from the Liberal Democracies, very anti-Liberal.  A conservative like Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan would have many points in common with Hitler, since they were equally anti-Liberal, but not as extreme, except for their proxies in Latin America, Pinochet, Noriega etc etc.
PM  

>  from:    Scribe1865-AT-aol.com
>  date:    Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:20:18
>  to:      nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>  subject: Re: that hitler?
> 
> In a message dated 7-22-2002 1:40:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> BMS4880-AT-tntech.edu writes:
> 
> 
> > The Nazis were very right wing.  
> 
> I suppose at that level of authoritarian control, "wings" are beside the 
> point.
> 
> A historian friend tells me that the author recommended By Paul, Bullock, is 
> indeed reliable, though there are some new bios that are more up to date ... 
> I'll have to read up on it if I can overcome my ennui ... 
> 
> Right wing conspirators taking over a left wing party by becoming it sounds 
> like a bit of a stretch; they didn't do anything particularly right wing -- 
> carried out the same catechism of genocide as the other Leftists (Lenin, 
> Stalin, Mao, ho, Pol pot, etc.) ... 
> 
> When you've got tens of millions of dead, the distinctions between one 
> totalitarian cult and another escape me ... Mussolini was another one who got 
> his start under the Socialists, but I guess the uniforms weren't snazzy 
> enough for him so he created fascism, which Pencilstache used as a model ... 
> 
> Tell me why I hate Mondays,
> Eric
> NYC



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