Hitler

Are the claims in this "The Ultimate Progressive" meme true? A similar meme which said Hitler was a socialist was posted on the internet and the poster, a retired Air Force officer, went to "Facebook Jail" until it was removed. Was Hitler a socialist? Why would anyone other than Hitler want to censor such a statement? Would that be the American way or would it be a violation of free speech? What is the real problem with this freedom of expression which can be censored? Has someone offended the Hitler of the past or the aspirations of some for our future? How inaccurate is it? "... I was in prison, and ye came unto me." Matthew 25:36

Hitler

Adolf Hitler, (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician and leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) from 1921 to 1945 (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP). He rose to power to become dictator of Germany, serving as Chancellor from 1933 and Führer ("Leader") from 1934.

During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland in September 1939. He closely supervised military operations during the war and by December 1941 had full control of all strategic decisions, especially on the Eastern Front. He was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust.

He was born in Austria and moved to Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War I. In 1919, he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the NSDAP, and was appointed its leader in 1921. In 1923, he attempted to seize power in a failed coup in Munich and was imprisoned. In jail, he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle").

After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-semitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. He frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as part of a Jewish conspiracy.

Socialist

Hitler stated many times that he was the common man's socialist as when he stated, "I am a socialist, and a very different kind of socialist from your rich friend Reventlow. I was once an ordinary workingman… But your kind of socialism is nothing but Marxism."

He did not come from a wealthy class and gathered other socialist to him for support like when he said, "Since we are socialists..." Germany had been devastated by WWI and the treaties demanding reparation had strangled their economy. He equated the Jews with banking which were often not alleviating this suffering but trying to make a profit. This claim was, of course, not entirely true but was typical during the rise of identity politics. Hitler used the prejudices of such misguided self-serving ideology when he went on to say, "... we must necessarily also be antisemites because we want to fight against the very opposite: materialism and mammonism… How can you not be an antisemite, being a socialist!"

Marx had advocated both democracy and socialism because they lead to Communism. Yet, Hitler consistently claimed to oppose Marxism while advocating socialism and social equity.

• 'Socialist' I define from the word 'social; meaning in the main ‘social equity’. A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort, of efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false."

While he clearly claimed above that "true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency" he always saw the individual as a means to the ends of the socialist collective national state, headed by himself. Socialism is both an economic and political system which always invest power into the hands of a few. That power generally corrupts the leaders to the detriment of the individual. The leaders feel justified in some or some more tyranny just as the people are justified in biting their own neighbor through covetous practices of forced distribution of wealth.

• "Aren’t these liberals, those reprobate defenders of individualism, ashamed to see the tears of the mothers and wives, or don’t these cold-blooded accountants even notice? Have they already grown so inhuman that they are no longer capable of feeling? It is understandable why bolshevism simply removed such creatures. They were worthless to humanity, nothing but an encumbrance to their Volk. Even the bees get rid of the drones when they can no longer be of service to the hive. The Bolshevik procedures are thus quite natural."

To Hitler, nationalism was a matter of race rather than common values. The values were important but almost always defined in the culture of the collective. He claimed a belief in private property as allowed by the state but so did the communists until they needed more capital than their brand of socialism was producing.

• "Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists. Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic. We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfillment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one."

Hitler saw socialism as a duty of man to his fellowman, which is interesting because that is the way Religion was defined in America just two hundred years ago. Pure religion was defined as how you took care of that common duty without the help of the state. Socialism is the religion of the state, but it uses force through men who exercise authority rather than through charity.

• “Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake, and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income. And we were aware that in this fight we can rely on no one but our own people. We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan, and there in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism.”

Capitalism is only an economic system, but it is the economic system of the individual by its nature. Socialism is both a political system and an economic system, and therefore by its nature is only tolerant of the individual as long as he serves the collective. Hitler was adamant about that.

• "In the past—that is, for most people it is still the present-the individual is everything, everything is directed at maintaining his life and improving his existence, everything focuses on him. ... In socialism of the future, on the other hand, what counts is the whole, the community of the Volk. The individual and his life play only a subsidiary role. He can be sacrificed—he is prepared to sacrifice himself should the whole demand it."

In Socialism, there is no need for God, for the collective is god and its leaders are the "gods many" of its society. This is why they need no god and imagine themselves content with atheism. The heuristics of the term "God" includes the phrase "divine will", which has always been defined as "right reason". Determining what is right reason may remain the province of the individual in unencumbered capitalism, but it becomes the proposition of a few and eventually the dictate of tyrants in socialism.

• "But we National Socialists wish precisely to attract all socialists, even the Communists; we wish to win them over from their international camp to the national one.(p. 26)... After all, that’s exactly why we call ourselves National Socialists! We want to start by implementing socialism in our nation among our Volk! It is not until the individual nations are socialist that they can address themselves to international socialism." (p. 288)

So, it should be abundantly clear that Hitler was socialist, advocated socialism, and gathered socialists to his cause. His goal was not simply as a nationalist but worldwide socialism. Yes, he was racist, but that was simply to utilize the cohesive elements of identity politics. Demonizing any group, especially to justify your own position as the result of victimhood, is playing the same mind game as Hitler.

When a retired Air Force officer posted a meme that said Hitler was a socialist he went to "Facebook Jail" until it was removed. The claim that Hitler was in favor of socialism seems reasonable. People claim everyone from Jordan Peterson to Donald Trump are Hitler, with a plethora of graphic mustached meme-making, and they do not get sent to Facebook Jail.

Was Hitler a socialist? How inaccurate is it to say so? Why would anyone other than Hitler want to censor such a statement? Would that be the American way of respecting free speech or would it be a violation of free speech? What is the real problem with this freedom of expression which can be censored? Has someone offended the Hitler of the past or the aspirations of those of our future?

Evidently, we are not supposed to say that Hitler or the Nazi's were socialist because that might upset other modern socialists. We are supposed to believe ideas like "The Nazis opposed all traditional socialism, wanting to substitute something they called ‘German socialism’ or ‘Aryan socialism,’” The meme might be objectional to Facebook because it called Hitler a 'vegetarian' and some might think that we should only call him a ‘German vegetarian ’ or ‘Aryan vegetarian ' but we would be distracting ourselves from the real and simple problem.

This has become a common theme of socialists, when you point out socialism's often fatal failures -- especially when mixed with fascism. The claim "That was not real socialism" will not change the end results.

The failure of all socialism is not because it might also be nationalist or racist or even fascist. The problem of socialism is that engages in covetous practices that must centralize the power of redistribution into the hands of men who will call themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other. Such systems are forbidden to Christians by Christ and to all by "Right Reason".

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Hitler saw and demanded a need for sacrifice which is a part of all systems of socialism but so did Jesus Christ who was not a socialist. With Jesus, that choice of distribution of wealth was left in the hands of the individual through charity but with the socialist, that choice and power are in the hands of the State through force.

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“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion”

Gun rights

As the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany, it inherited a 1928 gun registration law that had replaced a total ban on gun ownership imposed on a defeated Germany after World War I. The 1928 law created a permit system to own and sell firearms and ammunition. The taught the German people to hide their guns because few registered them.

• "But this order was followed quite rarely, so that largely, only newly bought weapons became registered," said Dagmar Ellerbrock, an expert on German gun policies at the Dresden Technical University. "At that time, most men, and many women, still owned the weapons they acquired before or during the first World War."

When the Third Reich took power, some aspects of gun regulation were loosened, such as allowing ownership for Nazi party members and the military. That is not like anything in America. The Brownshirts were able to work havoc with the people because they could legally own guns while others would be marked criminals if the even suggested they owned a gun. While laws were tightened for many of the people in other ways, such as Jews and Gypies. Nazi laws disarmed "unreliable" persons, especially Jews, but relaxed restrictions for "ordinary" German citizens. The policies were later expanded to include the confiscation of arms in occupied countries.

On Nov. 11, 1938, the German minister of the interior issued "Regulations Against Jews Possession of Weapons." Not only were Jews forbidden to own guns and ammunition, they couldn’t own "truncheons or stabbing weapons."

Still, today gun ownership in Germany is limited to hunters, clubs, and collectors. The American right to bear arms has nothing to do with those occupations or past times. It has to do with individual rights endowed by God, or at least "right reason". The right of a person to protect himself, his family and his neighbor began with the individual man. That right and responsibility may migrate to the State or the collective society by contract, avarice or sloth but in nature, it is the province of the individual. Socialism may not desire that power of defense in the hands of the individual and tyranny cannot tolerate it.

Progressives criticize statement like "German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s," which allowed the Nazis to "carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance." But the German people already lost their rights under kings and Kaizers. The lifting of restrictions was selective and grew the ranks of the Brownshirts until Hitler had the people properly subdued. That subduction came from many practices but also sloth.

Besides, can anyone in their right mind or with an honest opinion imagine that sixty thousand Khmer Rouge could murder two million Cambodians if the people were armed just a little bit?

Under socialism, the people no longer had to take the time to organize themselves into viable communities of mutual aid. They became accustomed to the bread of the state, when in need or want. In America, the king was not allowed to take their guns by a militia of the people which won them the independence they had already earned. That same volunteer militia fought fires, built roads, and school houses. And through the charity of small churches and congregations, the poor with the needs of widows and orphans was not neglected.

Polybius warned that the people would be altered by the free bread of the state, which provided at the expense of others. Plutarch warned that their benefits came at the price of liberty. King David and Paul warned that their welfare table was a snare. And the Baptism of John and Jesus were salvation for those who would repent and seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

Censorship

Freedom of speech is the right and the responsibility of the individual of determining the truth and sharing that truth. It is in the hands of the individual in a free society and exercised daily with fervor and resolve. Many people are trying to exercise authority over the free flow of information which often appears through perceptions and opinion both in the media, social media and even in the universities and the streets. There is nothing more important than our individual efforts to protect one another from both the lies and censorship of the world.

There is clearly an ongoing attempt to alter our understanding of history and its cause and effect upon the present and the future. If we will not learn from history, we are condemned to repeat its mistakes. If we do not know the truth we cannot learn from it.

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"The history of the birth of freedom... Are men to be ruled by God's law, or the whims of dictator..? Are men property of the state? Or are they free souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world today. " The 1956 movie “The Ten Commandments.” -Cecil B. DeMille (Producer/Director).

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What makes you property of the State is your covetous practices through forms of socialism and the sloth, Wantonness and self-righteousness it feeds in you. What sets you free os to be born again in The Way of Christ. That is to heed His word and repent, seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness by coming together as He commanded, in His name through charitable sacrifice in the love of one another to attend to the weightier matters.

25 Points

The 25 Points of Hitler's Nazi Party

1. We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples.

2. We demand that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain shall be abrogated.

3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population.

4. Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence no Jew can be a countryman.

5. Those who are not citizens must live in Germany as foreigners and must be subject to the law of aliens.

6. The right to choose the government and determine the laws of the State shall belong only to citizens. We therefore demand that no public office, of whatever nature, whether in the central government, the province, or the municipality, shall be held by anyone who is not a citizen.

We wage war against the corrupt parliamentary administration whereby men are appointed to posts by favor of the party without regard to character and fitness.

7. We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to feed the whole population, then aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.

8. Any further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately.

9. All citizens must possess equal rights and duties.

10. The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all.

Therefore we demand:

11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.

12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.

13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.

14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.

15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.

16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.

17. We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.

18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.

19. We demand that Roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by German common law.

20. In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State.

21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.

22. We demand the abolition of the regular army and the creation of a national (folk) army.

23. We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press. In order to make possible the creation of a German press, we demand:

(a) All editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens.

(b) Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State. They must not be published in the German language.

(c) All financial interests in or in any way affecting German newspapers shall be forbidden to non-Germans by law, and we demand that the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-Germans from the Reich.

Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk, and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands shall be dissolved.

24. We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the Germanic race.

The party as such represents the point of view of a positive Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on the pinciple:

COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD

25. In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.

The formation of professional committees and of committees representing the several estates of the realm, to ensure that the laws promulgated by the central authority shall be carried out by the federal states.

The leaders of the party undertake to promote the execution of the foregoing points at all costs, if necessary at the sacrifice of their own lives.

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