Man tries to claim the Nazis were socialist and gets shut down by a history teacher

August 10, 2018 #History, #indy 100, #poem, #social media, #socialism, #twitter

‘Nazi’ is the short name. The full name for the ‘Nazi’ party was the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” (“Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” in German). The fact that the far-right party contained ‘socialist’ in the name was a rebranding gambit to draw workers away from communism and into populist nationalism.

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