I remember learning about the Nazis in history class, how the SA would beat up and intimidate their political rivals, how they at first tried to gain power by force in the Putsch, then did by vote, how they killed off Strassers left wing faction and the SA in the party during the Long Knives, how non conforming German boys were kicked and punched if they didn’t join the Hitler Youth, how Mussolini’s blackshirts marched on Rome and used similar tactics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adol..._rise_to_power
He was aided in part by his willingness to use violence in advancing his political objectives and to recruit party members who were willing to do the same.In the mid-1920s, the party engaged in electoral battles in which Hitler participated as a speaker and organizer,[a] as well as in street battles and violence between the Rotfrontkämpferbund and the Nazis' Sturmabteilung (SA).On 14 September 1921, Hitler and a substantial number of SA members and other Nazi Party adherents disrupted a meeting at the Löwenbräukeller of the Bavarian League. This federalist organization objected to the centralism of the Weimar Constitution, but accepted its social program. The League was led by Otto Ballerstedt, an engineer whom Hitler regarded as "my most dangerous opponent." One Nazi, Hermann Esser, climbed upon a chair and shouted that the Jews were to blame for the misfortunes of Bavaria, and the Nazis shouted demands that Ballerstedt yield the floor to Hitler.[29] The Nazis beat up Ballerstedt and shoved him off the stage into the audience. Both Hitler and Esser were arrested, and Hitler commented notoriously to the police commissioner, "It's all right. We got what we wanted. Ballerstedt did not speak."[30]Hitler was eventually sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and ended up serving only a little over one month.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SturmabteilungFrom 1931 to 1933, the Nazis combined terror tactics with conventional campaigning – Hitler criss-crossed the nation by air, while SA troops paraded in the streets, beat up opponents, and broke up their meetings.
It was by now well recognized as an appropriate, even necessary, function or organ of the party. The future SA developed by organizing and formalizing the groups of ex-soldiers and beer hall brawlers who were to protect gatherings of the Nazi Party from disruptions from Social Democrats(SPD) and Communists (KPD) and to disrupt meetings of the other political parties.See, I thought all of that was part of what made the Nazis well, bad. Indeed there was a public speaking ban put on Hitler after 1925, which was unsuccessful at defeating what is, an idea and likely made people want to hear him even more. More speech not less speech.The Nazi Party held a large public meeting in the Munich Hofbräuhaus on 4 November 1921, which also attracted many Communists and other enemies of the Nazis. After Hitler had spoken for some time, the meeting erupted into a mêlée in which a small company of SA thrashed the opposition. The Nazis called this event the Saalschlacht ("meeting hall battle"), and it assumed legendary proportions in SA lore with the passage of time.
Strasser spoke in Hitlers place at this time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Strasser
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit...tepower2.shtmlWe National Socialists want the economic revolution involving the nationalization of the economy...We want in place of an exploitative capitalist economic system a real socialism, maintained not by a soulless Jewish-materialist outlook but by the believing, sacrificial, and unselfish old German community sentiment, community purpose and economic feeling. We want the social revolution in order to bring about the national revolution.
I also thought banning political parties by force was a bad thing Sukiyama.14 July – A law is passed to make every party illegal apart from the Nazi party.
The Nazis were a violently anti-Marxist party, a reactionary movement against Russian Bolshevism which was particularly popular in the North and East of Germany closest to Russia. However, the Germans didn’t realise they’d replaced one evil withh another. So be careful with associating yourself with antifa, and normalising their methods.
What I’m saying is, don’t think one form of extremist is distinguishable from another.
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Thiessen is right.
Yes. 1st amendment.