Essay: Hitler was a Communist in early 1919

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The Communist Walter Ulbricht (later president of East Germany) coordinated with Joseph Goebbels the Berlin transport strike, which led to Hitler's ascension to power and the eventual Holocaust.[1]

As much as the Leftists of both the Nazi and Communist factions within various Socialist sects all attempt to distance themselves from one another, an inescapable tenet of reality implicates both extremist factions, from a historically grounded perspective, not as simple ideological opponents, but parallel movements often working in revolutionary tandem to achieve Socialist ends.

Concerning the culmination of Nazi atrocities in what we know today as the Holocaust, neo-Marxist scholars have successfully brainwashed modern generations into the belief that National Socialism (Nazism) was not a variant of revolutionary Socialism akin to Communism, but a "far-right reactionary" cause deeply "anti-Communist." (see: Hitler–socialism denial) And yet, they fail to explain both the Communist roots of Nazism nor the pivotal Communist support to Nazism that consequently resulted in the mass murder of six million Jews.

Hitler's Communist background

Nazis may claim to be "anti-Communist," a narrative repeated by neo-Marxists, but their own Satanic god Hitler was, in fact, a Communist!

Also, Hitler was a sexual degenerate, listed in Vienna records as a gay prostitute. (see: Germany's National Vice)
For a more detailed treatment, see Communist origins of Nazism.

The independent historian and tireless researcher TIKhistory explains Adolf Hitler was a Communist in early 1919. When the nominal Jew and revolutionary Communist leader Kurt Eisner was assassinated by a right-wing paramilitary officer, Hitler was present at the funeral procession, wearing an armband demonstrating prideful solidarity with a... Jewish Communist. Flying away in the face of reality, as a result, is any grounds for the Nazi propaganda line that it was opposed to "Judeo-Bolshevism."[2]

It’s interesting that Nazi ideology flourished particularly in the Bavarian region of Germany, the very place governed by a Communist state in the 1910s. Certainly countless hordes of socialists who later supported Nazism were once card-carrying Communists just as not only Hitler, but also his chauffeur Schreck likewise was.

Far-left or far-right?

Neo-Marxist propagandists are not known for particular consistency. In their view, the Nazi movement was "far-right" but included a “left-wing” flank known as the Strasserites; purportedly the Nazis "hated Leftism" due to the purging of Strasserism in the Night of the Long Knives. However, key members of the Strasser faction, including both brothers[3] as well as Rudolf Hess[4] and Ernst Röhm,[5] were once members of the Freikorps, which crushed Communist revolutionaries in the early Weimar era.

The neo-Marxists have defined the Freikorps paramilitary movement as "far-right." So by consistently following their line of logic, the "left wing" of (otherwise supposedly "far-right") Nazism was created by members of a far-right paramilitary, while Hitler and Schreck, once card-carrying Communists, comprised the leadership of the "regular" "far-right" faction.

Solving this confusing anomaly created by the neo-Marxist narrative is quite simple: the academics, scholars, and propagandists had it all wrong. The Freikorps, ostensibly fighting to preserve the moderately socialistic Weimar Republic against a splinter Communist revolt, were not purely right-wing reactionaries, more likely a German ultranationalist big tent coalition consisting of both far-leftists and far-rightists. The battle between future Nazi leaders during the late 1910s between the Goebbels/Strasser element on the Freikorps and the Hitler/Schreck faction on the Communists, both then and later by the early 1930s, was an internal dispute within Leftist Socialism.

Since neo-Marxists portray Rohm as way to the left of Hitler, I would enjoy watching them fall apart trying to explain why Rohm had rebuked Hitler for participating in a full-fledged Communist "Soviet Republic" instead of joining the ultranationalist Freikorps:[6]

“ Despite his subsequent reputation for anti-Marxist tirades, Hitler did not fight or oppose the Communists. He was serving them, although he expressed few details about this horrific episode in his life. One thing seemed certain; he did not try to escape from the Lenin-backed political thicket in Munich, nor did he join the anti-Bolshevik armed forces of General Franz Ritter von Epp. Thomas Weber makes it clear in his 2017 book Becoming Hitler that the future leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis) “remained in his post for the entire lifespan of the Soviet Republic,” and “did not join a Freikorps with his comrades prior to the defeat of the Soviet Republic.” Because he had failed to join the anti-communist forces to overthrow the Räterepublik red government, Hitler later suffered “scornful reproaches from Ernst Röhm,” co-founder of the Nazi’s Sturmabteilung (Stormtroopers). Otto Strasser, an early member of the Nazi Party, also criticized Hitler for failing to join the armed forces of General von Epp to “fight the Bolsheviks in Bavaria,” asking: “Where was Hitler that day?”

In the end, the Communist republic was quickly overthrown in fierce street battles with over 600 casualties. But there is more to this story. During the street battles, Hitler was arrested and interned with other captured communist adherents of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. In his 1936 book Hitler: A Biography, Konrad Heiden, a Munich-born journalist and a Social Democrat himself, remarked that during this period, Hitler engaged in heated discussions where he “espoused the cause of Social Democracy against that of the Communists.” That seemed reasonable, since Hitler and everyone in his barracks were in serious trouble. They were all interrogated over whether they were a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. The punishment for being a Communist was execution, imprisonment, or exile. So, was Hitler protecting himself and hiding his true loyalty to Communism, or did he, in fact, pledge his loyalty to the Social Democrats, a more moderate movement that had its original roots in orthodox Marxism?

”

—Stopping Socialism, Jan. 6, 2022

KPD antisemitism

A founding member of the West Germany Red Army Faction said in 1972:[7]

“ Auschwitz meant that six million Jews were killed, and thrown on the waste-heap of Europe, for what they were: money-Jews (Geldjuden). Finance capital and the banks, the hard core of the system of imperialism and capitalism, had turned the hatred of men against money and exploitation, and against the Jews. The failure of the Left, of the Communists, had lain in not making these connections plain...

Germans were anti-Semitic, and that is why they nowadays support the Red Army Fraction.

”

—Ulrike Meinhof, Dec. 1972

Reds and browns: KPD and völkisch unite?

Karl Radek sought German nationalist support by joining the glorification of revolutionary and Nazi icon Albert Leo Schlageter.

Among the KPD, Ruth Fischer, resentful of less aggressive elements in the Social Democrats and factions of the Communists, favored joint action with German ultranationalists, who she viewed as more revolutionary.[8] Karl Radek, a fellow KPD member who agreed with Fischer's strategy, called for a united front of Communists and "Revolutionary Nationalists" against "Western imperialism,"[9] delivered a Moscow diatribe to the Comintern during June 1923 which became known as the Schlageter Speech:[10][11]

“ The German Communist Party must openly declare to the nationalist petty bourgeois masses: Whoever is working in the service of the profiteers, the speculators, and the iron and coal magnates to enslave the German people will meet the resistance of the German Communist Party which will oppose violence with violence... We believe that the great majority of the nationalist-minded masses belong not in the camp of the capitalists but in that of the workers. We want to find the road to these masses, and we will do so. We will do everything in our power to make men like Schlageter... not spill their eager, unselfish blood for the coal and iron barons, but in the cause of the great toiling German people, which is a member of the family of peoples fighting for emancipation. ”

—Karl Radek, "Schlageter Speech"

Ultranationalists subsequently extolled the Schlageter Speech, with völkisch activist Ernst von Reventlow publishing articles in Rote Fahne, a KPD paper,[12] in addition to gaining the praise of Joseph Goebbels.[13] The Social Democrats soon seized upon Radek's speech as evidence of "collusion of the Communist and fascist leaders."[10] Fischer, leader of the KPD in Berlin, admitted as well that the manifesto was a proposition for a united front with ultranationalists. However, Radek himself stubbornly insisted otherwise, pointing to his specific denunciations of Nazis previously as the "class opponent" of the workers.

According to author Jean-Claude Favez, the Schlageter Speech represented:[9]

“ ...the extreme nationalism of the German Communist Party as well as its attempt to use any opportunities that benefited social revolution by holding the hands of paramilitary organizations and nationalists whose hatred pushed them to seek any support in the interest of their oppressed country. ”

—"A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow," p. 59

Ruth Fischer used violent antisemitic demagoguery to appeal to Nazis.

Radek's demagoguery continued in his fanatical ultranationalist appeal, with his Schlageter Speech calling for "hundreds of Schlageters"[11] to join in direct collaboration with Communists, believing German nationalists should come to the conclusion that the country "can only be be freed from the bonds of slavery with the working class, not against it." Fischer made similar remarks, telling ultranationalists that "liberation" will be achieved via "the German proletariat of which you form a part, and with which you must align yourselves."[14] Fischer also appealed to the antisemitism among German ultranationalists in a virulent speech:

“ You cry against Jewish capital, gentlemen? Whoever condemns Jewish capital, gentlemen, is already engaged in class struggle, even though he does not realize it. You are against Jewish capital and want to eliminate the stock manipulators. This is right. Trample the Jewish capitalists under foot, hang them on the lamp posts and stomp them out. But what do you want to do with the big capitalists, the Klöckners, Stinnes... ”

—Ruth Fischer, antisemitic KPD member

Between July and August 1923, the Communist Party of Germany held meetings and public debates with Nazis.[10] Such resulted mass gatherings were publicized by public broadcasts which beared both a Nazi swastika and a Communist red star.[13] According to Fischer's later memoirs, small groups were organized by Communists where socialists and nationalists met to express shared sentiment on establishing a unified German front against the French. Communist speakers asserted, "The time is not far off when the Völkische and the Communists will be united."[10] However, the ultranationalistic appeals of the KPD failed to garner significant party traction, as the Nazis tended to continue winning over German nationalists.[15]

Goebbels boasts of Nazism's left-wing credentials

The propagandist himself, leading the openly Marxist faction of the Nazi movement, wrote in 1925: "It would be better for us to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal slavery under capitalism. ... We will turn National Socialism into a party of class struggle."[16] He later admitted in 1931:[17]

“ According to the idea of the NSDAP, we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block. ”

—Joseph Goebbels, Der Angriff, December 6, 1931

Let's take a moment here and not forget the ridiculously massive amount of irony if we connect a few dots: the Nazis claimed, "the Jews created Bolshevik Marxist Communism." The Nazi movement itself was deeply connected to and rooted in Marxism. By their own logic, they would be considered to have been, and have always been, the very "Jewish hegemony" they claim to oppose. I guess the real "Judeo-Bolsheviks" were the Nazis, eh?

1931: Landtag referendum

The right-wing faction of the anti-Landtag coalition was not the Nazis, but the DNVP and their Stahlhem paramilitaries (pictured).
For a more detailed treatment, see Prussian Landtag referendum.

Comsymp revisionists present the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) as an anti-Nazi force ideologically opposed to and brutally persecuted for supposedly opposing the National Socialists. The historical record speaks to the contrary: the primary enemy of the Communists were not the Nazis, but instead the Social Democrats, just as the National Socialists sought to overthrow SPD control.

In Weimar Germany, various paramilitary organizations formed, each vying for power in streaks of decibel vengeance to institute a totalitarian regime governed by ultranationalistic and/or socialistic ideals. The governing coalition of the Weimar Republic was led by the Social Democratic Party, the “moderate” faction of the Left which sought Socialist ends through peaceful reform, bypassing the "need" for violent revolution.

By contrast, the hard left wing of the Socialists, manifested in both the Nazi and Communist movements, sought not peaceful reform but violent revolution.

In 1931, there was a referendum to dissolve the parliament of the Prussian Landtag, controlled by an SPD-led coalition. Historians have correctly noted that there was indeed a "left–right" united front in support of the referendum, although have incorrectly attributed the Nazis as belonging to the "Right" when it was in fact a Leftist entity. The right-wing nationalist faction were largely led by the German National People’s Party (DNVP) and their Stahlhelm paramilitaries.

Communist support for the referendum, thereby establishing the KPD as an ostensible ally of the NSDAP in pursuit of shared goals, was top-down: Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov, via the Comintern, ordered German Communists to rally behind the dissolution of the Landtag. Communist leaders praised Nazis as comrades of the working class, and their international allies glorified "the decision of the KPD central committee to take part in the referendum against the social-fascist Government of Prussia."

Ultimately, the Stalinist order was "last-minute," and most of the KPD rank-and-file did not heed the command. Dissident Communist leader Leon Trotsky was a notable critic of the Stalinist move to align Communism with Nazism.[18]

1932: Berlin transport strike

SA Nazis and Rotfronter Communists picketed side-by-side.

Despite denialism from mainstream propagandists, various authors—including from the direct testimony of Communists—have confirmed the depths of collaboration between Nazi and Communist forces in 1932 during a crucial transport strike situated in Berlin. I’m just going to quote their words on this matter to demonstrate it’s less of me arguing the point and more a reiteration of the historical record already made abundantly clear:

“ I grew up with the strike. Never, my father told me when I was still quite young, stand on a picket line with Nazis. My mother explained: ‘Wouldn't you believe it, there were Nazi pickets standing alongside the Communist pickets during the transport strike. The Communists allowed that to happen. Can you believe it?’ ”

—Siegfried "Siegi" Moos, KPD member[19]

“ November 3, at 4 A.M. on the eve of the elections, the strike wave culminated in the great Berlin transportation strike. Communists and Nazis stood shoulder to shoulder in the picket lines, in the raiding squads and in the action committees. Chancellor von Papen threatened martial law and the calling out of the Reichswehr. The National Socialists and the Communist Party countered with an armed concentration of their brigades in the environs and the suburbs of Berlin. The strike continued, dominating the election of November. ”

—Richard Julius Hermann Krebs, another KPD member[20]

The conservative bourgeois referred to the Nazis as "Bolsheviks" as a result of active NSDAP participation in the transport strike; this has been noted by both primary and secondary sources.[21] Yes, let that sink in: German conservatives at the time saw the ☭Nazis☭ as nothing more than Communists. Goebbels himself griped in his diary:[21]

“ The entire Press is furious with us and calls it Bolshevism. ”

—Joseph Goebbels, 1932

Communists and the Sturmabteilung

It is no secret that Hitler purged the organizational hierarchy of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in the Night of the Long Knives. Of course, there were several million members in the Nazi paramilitary group, most of whom obviously were not targeted. Per basic logic, those Nazis continued in the Third Reich.

And as it turns out, plenty of the recruits into the SA were… Communists.[22][23] So thousands—if not tens of or hundreds of or millions—of Nazis who conspired in the Holocaust were Communists. Since Hitler himself was a Communist and the Nazi movement grew out of Marxist Socialism… connecting the dots now, perhaps?

Unfortunately these simple facts lead to an endless tirade of factually spurious and poorly devised “counterarguments” from various Communist sympathizers who hurl all sorts of plain lies. It may interest those individuals to read the extensive sources I’ve cited and understand how to apply the utmost basic tenets of logic instead of drinking from the public toilets they bathe in.

1939–41 (Communazi Era): Communists sabotage Allied Powers

The anti-Communist Russian author Viktor Suvorov writes:[24]

“ Once the Nazis came to power, Stalin used all his might to push them toward war. When Germany attacked Poland, and France and Britain entered the war against Germany, Stalin ordered the Communists of the Western democracies to oppose the war. The Western democracies were branded as capitalist imperialists, and the Comintern ordered its members to weaken the armies of the Western democracies through strikes in armament and airplane factories. The Communist Parties were to demand an end to the "imperialist war." Hitler was portrayed as a fighter for the working classes. But by pushing Hitler into conflict with democratic Europe, Stalin had issued Hitler a death sentence. By offering to divide Poland with Hitler, Stalin had dragged him into a larger scale war with no end in sight. Stalin expected that the Western allies and Germany would exhaust their strength by fighting against each other as they did in World War I. The struggle between Hitler and the Western democracies would create the moment for a “mighty strike" from the East and bring forth world revolution on the bayonets of the Red Army. ”

—"The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II"

Communists admit Nazis are Socialists

“ [The German-Soviet invasion of Poland was] an example of cooperation of socialist nations against Anglo-French imperialism. ”

—Comintern, Oct. 7, 1939[25]

Hitler himself admits “basically [Nazism] and Marxism are the same”

On February 24, 1941, Hitler gave a speech where he gave away a considerably damning Freudian slip: "basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same."[26][27][28][29]

And in his Leftist autobiographical rambling-screed Mein Kampf, Hitler openly gave away an equally stark admission:

“ The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors of its view of life.

If the National Socialist Movement should fail to understand the fundamental importance of this essential principle, if it should merely varnish the external appearance of the present State and adopt the majority principle, it would really do nothing more than compete with Marxism on its own ground. For that reason it would not have the right to call itself a philosophy of life. If the social programme of the movement consisted in eliminating personality and putting the multitude in its place, then National Socialism would be corrupted with the poison of Marxism, just as our national-bourgeois parties are.

”

—Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf," Vol. 2, Ch. 4

1944: Stalin helps Nazis in the Warsaw Uprising

For a more detailed treatment, see Warsaw Uprising.

Comsymps argue that the Communazi Era was a mere aberration because the two sides were fighting one another Operation Barbarossa. While at the outset that may appear to be true, Communists continued to quietly abet Nazi war crimes (through indirect means), most notably in the Soviet refusal to aid democratic resistance fighters in Poland who were subsequently crushed by Nazi forces.

Similarly in Slovakia, the primary resistance to the Nazis were not Communists, as far-left revisionists may claim—it was the democratic conservatives.

From Communism to Nazism: one Socialist ideology to another

In the U.S., for example, some Nazi leaders had notable Communist backgrounds. One such infamous demagogue was Joseph E. McWilliams, dubbed "Joe McNazi" by Jewish commentator Walter Winchell. Despite publicly claiming to hate Communists, he himself was one until the mid-1930s. In fact, he was a speaker for the CPUSA.[30][31] Another key case, at least partially, would be Francis Parker Yockey.

With the outbreak of the NATO–Russia War, various braindead cultists who worship Vladimir Putin have called for a united front between conservatives and Communists as a "necessary solution" to "defeat the Ukronazis." It perhaps would interest those obnoxious agitators, shrouded in wisps of fantastical egomaniacalism, to realize that the Ukronazis are not too different from the Communists they are lending support to: both seek to create a Socialist state, just under different models of Socialism.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Dallas, Gregor (2005). 1945: The War that Never Ended, p. 376. Google Books. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  2. ↑ With that said, Judeo-Bolshevism by and large still remains a debunked myth.
  3. ↑ Stachura, Peter D. (1983). Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism. Google Books. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  4. ↑ Magub, Roshan (2017). Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis: A Political Biography, p. 22. Google Books. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  5. ↑ Himmler, Katrin (2005). The Himmler Brothers, p. 74. Google Books. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  6. ↑ Samuels, L. K. (January 6, 2022). L.K. Samuels: Was Hitler a Red-Armband-Wearing Communist? Stopping Socialism. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
  7. ↑ Smith, J.; Moncourt, André (2009). The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism. Google Books. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
  8. ↑ Kessler, Mario (April 30, 2020). A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941: Dissident Against His Will, p. 58. Google Books. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow," p. 59.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Taber, Michael (2018). The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International’s Executive Committee, 1922-1923, pp. 24–25. Google Books. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Baird, Jay W. (1990). To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon, p. 30. Google Books. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  12. ↑ Mevius, Martin (2005). Agents of Moscow: The Hungarian Communist Party and the Origins of Socialist Patriotism 1941-1953, pp. 18–19. Google Books. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer (2002). New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism, p. 378. Google Books. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  14. ↑ "A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow," p. 60.
  15. ↑ "A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow," p. 61.
  16. ↑ Samuels, L. K. (June 21, 2022). Were the German National Socialists Marxist-Leaning? Stopping Socialism. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
  17. ↑ Tinny, Ian. Hitler's National Socialism. Google Books. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
  18. ↑ Trotsky, Leon (August 25, 1931). Against National Communism! (Lessons of the “Red Referendum”). Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  19. ↑ Moos, Merilyn (October 31, 2014). Beaten But Not Defeated: Siegfried Moos - A German Anti-Nazi who Settled in Britain. Google Books. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
  20. ↑ Krebs, Richard Julius Hermann (1940). Out of the Night. Google Books. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Bullock, Alan (1962). Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, pp. 229–32. Internet Archive. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
  22. ↑ Brown, Timothy Scott (April 23, 2009). Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists Between Authenticity and Performance, pp. 137–39. Google Books. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
  23. ↑ Fischer, Conan (1996). The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany, p. 108. Google Books. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
  24. ↑ Suvorov, Viktor (2013). The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II. Google Books. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
  25. ↑ The Soviet Invasion of Poland. September 17, 1939. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
  26. ↑ Pipes, Richard (1993). Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, p. 259. Google Books. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
  27. ↑ Walsh, Anthony (2019). A Nation Divided: The Conflicting Personalities, Visions, and Values of Liberals and Conservatives, p. 110. Google Books. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
  28. ↑ Hayek, F. A. (March 1944). The Road to Serfdom, p. 31. Google Books. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
  29. ↑ Pipes, Richard (1999). Property and Freedom, p. 220. Google Books. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
  30. ↑ 1939. Protestant Digest, Vol. 1, Iss. 11, p. 68. Google Books. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
  31. ↑ Botsford, Gardner (November 26, 2013). A Life of Privilege. Google Books. Retrieved October 18, 2023.

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