The Forgotten History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Postwar West Germany
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- On December 19, 1980, Shlomo Lewin, the former chairman of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, and his partner Frida Poeschke were shot dead in their house in Erlangen. Instead of pursuing the leads that led to the right-wing extremist group Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann, investigators concentrated on Lewin’s social environment for a long time. As part of UC San Diego's Holocaust Living History Workshop, German historian Uffa Jensen reconstructs the crime and its motivations, in the process unearthing a history of violence, trivialisation and repression that continues to this day. Jensen is a historian of modern history and serves as the deputy director at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität in Berlin.
[5/2024] [Show ID: 38976]
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The speaker discussed the Idea that Hoffmann was Fascist not Nazi without really discussing the difference given that Hoffmann was antisemitic. Fascism and National Socialism were both "third way Socialism". They didn't have complete state ownership of the means of production like communism. They didnt have liberty to pursue your own interests and prosperity with minimum interference like Free Market Economies. They aimed for Socialist control of the economy without necessarily having State ownership of all of the means of production. The difference was that Fascism was Syndicalist- ie they believed in having regional workers syndicates controlling industry and dictating its management. Nazism on the other hand was National Socialist. They believed in having socialism implemented by national regulations, permits and dictates. Germany was probably the most heavily regulated economy Europe has ever seen. Nazi economics had regulations on interest rates, profits businesses were allowed to make, prices that could be charged, wages that had to be paid, workers were required to belong to the party controlled Union. Permits were required to purchase raw materials. Farmers even needed to get a permit to kill their own pig for their own food.
Fascism = regionally managed socialism
Nazism = National Socialism
At times I wonder all you right wingers who claim that Nazism is (a form of) socialism not understand that there are mixed economies everywhere. FDR was also slammed as socialist and America regulated banks heavily during that era while even providing unemployment benefits which is a form of socialism. So, in this case, America was no more “capitalist”?
Saying Nazi economics was highly regulated therefore they are socialist is a fallacious argument. It’s like saying because the 2nd amendment says militia and right to bear arms means America highly regulates arms more than other countries. There is driving regulations, road traffic regulations, speed limit regulations, alcohol regulations more here than in Europe and the autobahn that has no speed limit; so I can say America is more regulated than Europe? That’s laughable. And yes transportation is as much a part of the economy as banks are. The Federal Reserve is regulating and controlling interest rates as can be seen these past few years so how is that different from a regulated Central Bank? Hitler wanted to restrict smoking in public places which almost every government does now. So, these governments are following Hitler? This kind of argument of viewing things through a lens to create revisionism is what passes for thoughts these days. Every WW2 scholar knows that Germany’s rearmament was bankrolled by the Industrialists through debt financing and the creation of MEFO bills. Venture capitalists that run the rearmament industries like IG Farben (BASF, Bayer etc), Siemens, Krupp, bankrolling a practical socialist regime is a bad argument.
The claim that both Fascism and Nazism are a third way of Socialism is categorically false. It’s a third way between right wingers and communism. They said as much. And besides, what made the Nazis bad wasn’t their economic regulations it’s their war against peace, war against humanity (The Holocaust), and killing off the disabled, and becoming an authoritarian state. Also importantly the racist ideologies, bans on interracial marriages, enacting a kind of one drop rule to eliminate and discriminate against Jews, treating some people as sub-human, blaming a particular minority group of the Country’s problems…those are the evils of Nazism and Fascism and that’s what drove their terrorism.
Recent admissions by a former president Italy have revealed that the Bologna explosion was not the work of right-wing terrorists, but rather resulted from accidental explosion of terrorist bombs and ammunition that the Italian government was allowing Palestinian terrorist groups to be transported through Italy and its ports to Palestine. The attack on the synogogue in Paris was determined by French and Israeli police investigators to be the work of a Palestinian terrorist organization. A Palestinian terrorist group, although making use of a fictiitious name, took publicly claimed credit foe the bombing. Notice that this speaker is reluctant to admit that there were acts of terrorism at around this time by people who were not extreme right wing Germans.
Can you provide references?