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The Reichstag fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of Nazi Germany, began at 9:14 PM on the night of February 27, 1933, when a Berlin fire station received an alarm that the Reichstag building, assembly location of the German Parliament, was ablaze. The fire seemed to have been started in several places, and by the time the police and firemen arrived a huge explosion had set the main Chamber of Deputies in flames. Looking for clues, the police quickly found Marinus van der Lubbe, naked, cowering behind the building. Van der Lubbe was a Dutch insurrectionary council communist and unemployed bricklayer who had recently arrived in Germany.
Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring arrived soon after, and, when they were shown van der Lubbe, Göring immediately declared the fire was set by the Communists and had the party leaders arrested. Hitler took advantage of the situation to declare a state of emergency and encouraged aging president Paul von Hindenburg to sign the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolishing most of the human rights provisions of the 1919 Weimar Republic constitution.
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Originally posted by DaftDebunk
I think Dan Brown need to be banned.
Originally posted by Attero Auctorita
Originally posted by DaftDebunk
I think Dan Brown need to be banned.
Such a great example of a fascist statement. Let's just censor everything people deem "threatening."
Originally posted by Attero Auctorita
Sorry DaftDebunk, i'm a little touchy.
[edit on 25-1-2006 by Attero Auctorita]
If you turn Google Earth to true 'north,'the swastika aligns at what looks to be almost perfectly to the German swastika, as in the picture below.
Using Google Earth you can locate the strange building at:
32 40'34.09" N, 117 09'27.96 W
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice swore in to the 911 commission under a fascist symbol displayed on the United States Senate Seal. The symbol which appears as a 'X' at the bottom of the seal is two rod bundled axes. The word fascist comes from the word fasces which means, "a bundle of rods and among them an ax with projecting blade borne before ancient Roman magistrates as a badge of authority.
Originally posted by SpecAgentDW
I know most of you probably already know this, but America has a long history with the nazi's.
During WWII there was an American Nazi Party, can't remember who headed it, I remember it from some old Frank Capa videos I have.
Originally posted by warpboost
Also could some easily explain to me what the big differences are between nazism, fascisim, socialism and communisim
[edit on 26-1-2006 by warpboost]
Adherents of Nazism held that the Aryan race were superior to other races, and they promoted Germanic racial supremacy and a strong, centrally governed state.
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Fascism is typified by totalitarian attempts to impose state control over all aspects of life: political, social, cultural, and economic. The fascist state regulates and controls (as opposed to nationalizing) the means of production. Fascism exalts the nation, state, or race as superior to the individuals, institutions, or groups composing it. Fascism uses explicit populist rhetoric; calls for a heroic mass effort to restore past greatness; and demands loyalty to a single leader, often to the point of a cult of personality.
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Socialism is an ideology with the core belief that society should exist within an environment where not-for-profit popular collectives control the means of power, and therefore the means of production.
In Marxist theory, it also refers to the society that would succeed or supplant capitalism, and would later develop further into communism, as the necessity for the socialist structure would wither away. Marxism and communism are both branches of socialism.
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Communism refers to a conjectured future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production, and to a variety of political movements which claim the establishment of such a social organization as their ultimate goal. Early forms of human social organization have been described as "primitive communism." However, communism as a political goal generally denotes a conjectured future form of social organization which has never been implemented.
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Originally posted by Nordman
Swastika generally is centuries old Symbol of Luck
The symbol of fascism, in its original Italian incarnation under Benito Mussolini, and which gave fascism its name, was the fasces. This is an ancient Roman symbol of power carried by lictors in front of magistrates: a bundle of sticks, which included an axe indicating the power over life and death.