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Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
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The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
ON May 17 1933 Adolf Hitler, then three months into his burgeoning Nazi dictatorship, addressed a Reichstag already purged of its Communist representatives.
He was speaking to a statement outlining his foreign policy, touting his commitment to peace and equal rights for Germany and Germans.
One historian records what happened as this exercise in fascist demagogy was put to the vote by Goering: “When the Social Democratic deputies rose as a body to vote with the bourgeois parties, the chamber, including Hitler, broke into a storm of applause. The German Nationalists burst into Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles, and many Social Democrats joined in.”
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