Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "National Socialism WAS Socialism | Rethinking WW2 History" video.

  1. The very terms Left and Right hail from the French Revolution, and how its politicians self-organized. The Right consisted of Monarchists who also believed in a state religion, Catholic, which would consecrate each succeeding King in a high ceremony. At the time, virtually EVERY nation had such a form of government, going back into the mists of time. The Left was intensely anti-Monarchist and absolutely wanted to eliminate the state religion's connection to politics, if not crush it entirely. By this standard, the budding USA was a Centrist polity. It has largely stayed that way in the centuries that followed. At the end of WWII, the Soviets accepted into their ranks no end of minor Nazi officials. Neither party had any qualms, the new adherents fit right in. The Modern Construction of the Nazis as Right Wing hails from the KGB and their Active Operations which started immediately after the war. No-one during WWII ever described the Nazis as Right Wing during the war. They were just Nazis. Calling them Right Wing would've smeared every conservative political voter in the country, USA, so it wasn't done. The KGB couldn't even bare to call the Nazis, Nazis, so Fascist was used. But Hitlerism is not actually Fascism - which was an ITALIAN political movement. Allowing the KGB to determine the nomenclature of politics is just plain wrong. Most folks don't even realize that it was the KGB that placed the Nazis, their previous buddies, on the opposite end of the political spectrum -- and our Left bought that pitch hook line and sinker.
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