Joseph Goebbels, Ph.D., was Reich Minister of Propaganda for the National Socialist government from 1933 to 1945 and, after Hitler, the second or third most powerful man in Germany.
“According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block.”
Joseph Goebbels, Der Angriff (The Attack, Berlin newspaper of the National Socialist party, 6 December 1931). Also quoted in Wolfgang Venohr’s Documents of German existence: 500 years of German national history 1445-1945, Athenäum Verlag, 1980, p. 291; in German: „Der Idee der NSDAP entsprechend sind wir die deutsche Linke. Nichts ist uns verhaßter als der rechtsstehende nationale Besitzbürgerblock. Link to German history book: https://historyuncensored.wixsite.com/history-uncensored/historical-quotes. Thanks to historian Lawrence Samuels for the quotation and source.
Related:
My book Nietzsche and the Nazis: print and e-book via Amazon, audiobook at YouTube. Includes text of the original 1920 program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, of which 14 of the 25 program points make socialist demands, and a summary of Goebbels’ education and political philosophy.
My conversation at Triggernometry, Why They Loved Hitler: On intellectual developments in Germany in the generations leading up to the Nazis.
Fascinating Goebbels quote. Thanks. I have suggestions for the triggernometry video on youtube: They overuse the term “Nazi.” It is not clear from the video that any of you three are aware that Hitler never self-identified as “Nazi” (because I do not recall anyone in the video ever saying that Hitler never self-identified as “Nazi”). In fact, the overuse of the term “Nazi” would suggest that no one in the video is aware that Hitler never self-identifies as “Nazi”). In a discussion like the one in the video, the speakers need to state early in the presentation that Hitler did not ever self-identify as “Nazi.” Otherwise, extremely educated people who watch the video might think everyone in the vid is ignorant of the fact that Hitler did not toss the term “Nazi” around in his speeches and writings (Hitler did not). Granted, there are almost no extremely educated people of that caliber, so any embarrassment would be miniscule.
It is a shame that the Goebbels’ quote inserted the so-called translation “Nazi party” as that perpetuates the widespread belief that Hitler ran around spouting off about his “Nazi Party” (Hitler did not). It hides the truth that he spouted off about “socialism” by the very word. In that sense there was no “Nazi Party” and there was no “Nazi Germany.”
I enjoy your work and the following is something you might appreciate. Have you noticed how the Liberty Movement is ignorant that Hitler didn’t self-identify as “Nazi” nor “Fascist”? Libertarians and Conservatives share this widespread ignorance. I would be happy to help you combat this problem among your fans. Here are some fascinating facts that most people need to learn in the Liberty Movement-
1. Hitler and his supporters self-identified as “socialists” by the very word in voluminous speeches and writings. The term “Socialist” appears throughout Mein Kampf as a self-description by Hitler.
2. Hitler never called himself a “Nazi.” There was no “Nazi Germany.” There was no “Nazi Party.” Those terms are slang to hide how Hitler and his comrades self-identified: SOCIALIST.
3. Hitler never called himself a “Fascist.” That term is misused to hide how Hitler and his comrades self-identified: SOCIALIST.
4. The term “Nazi” isn’t in “Mein Kampf” nor in “Triumph of the Will.”
5. The term “Fascist” never appears in Mein Kampf as a self-description by Hitler.
6. The term “swastika” never appears in the original Mein Kampf.
7. There is no evidence that Hitler ever used the word “swastika.”
8. The symbol that Hitler did use was intended to represent “S”-letter shapes for “socialist.”
9. Hitler altered his own signature to reflect his “S-shapes for socialism” logo branding.
10. Mussolini was a long-time socialist leader, with a socialist background, raised by socialists to be a socialist, and he joined socialists known as “fascio, fasci, and fascisti.”
11. Fascism came from a socialist (e.g. Mussolini). Communism came from a socialist (e.g. Marx). Fascism and Communism came from socialists.
12. German socialists and Soviet socialists partnered for International Socialism in 1939. They launched WWII, invading Poland together, and continued onward from there, killing millions. Soviet socialism had signed on for Hitler’s Holocaust.
13. After Hitler’s death, Stalin continued the plan he had made with Hitler for Global Socialism. Stalin took over the same areas that Hitler had captured. He used the same facilities that Hitler had used. Hitler’s Holocaust never ended. Stalin replaced Hitler.
14. Hitler and Marx were popular in the USA. Two famous American socialists (the cousins Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy) were heavily influenced by Marx. The American socialists returned the favor: Francis Bellamy created the “Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag” that was the origin of Nazi salutes and Nazi behavior. The Bellamys were American national socialists.
15. The classic military salute (to the brow) also contributed to the creation of the Nazi salute (with the right-arm extended stiffly).
16. The Bellamy cousins promoted socialist schools that imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy.
Those are some of the amazing revelations in books I have authored. For example see the book “Come Inside My Head: Karl Marx.” It cites the discoveries of the historian Dr. Rex Curry. If you would like a free copy or more information, then please let me know. I can help you with any questions. – Ian Tinny
My God, what a load of drivel, Ian Tinny. Your book didn’t make the case and this silly list of nonsense doesn’t either. Sigh, in fact socialism and workers rights were antithetical to everything Hitler and his pals believed and wanted to accomplish, well except for Otto Strasser and his brother Gregor, naive idiots who learned the hard way what Hitler thought of Socialism. The “Socialist” and “Workers” inclusion in the party name was a tool for cementing popular support on his march to the Reichstag, an observation amply born out by his subsequent arrest, imprisonment and murder of real socialists and union leaders. He dissolved the Socialist Democratic Party and by the spring of 1934 all that remained of egalitarianism was a puff smoke from burning books that would become a bitter smog emanating from the stacks of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the fall of 1941. There was nothing remotely socialistic about