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German luxury brand, Hugo Boss AG, in 1934-1935 advertised itself as the, "supplier of national socialist uniforms" In 1946, its founder, Hugo Boss, was fined 70k and stripped of his voting rights for being a beneficiary of Nazism.
Planting swastikas in the forests of Germany was "a fad among National Socialist foresters" during the Nazi period and nobody noticed them until decades later.
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Until its dissolution the USSR was represented by 3 votes in the United Nations after a demand for full UN membership for all fifteen Soviet Socialist Republics. The United States had responded with a counter-demand for all 48 states to be recognized as well, giving the US 48 votes in the UN
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Hugo Boss founded his company in 1924, ten years later advertising that he had been a "supplier for National Socialist uniforms since 1924", eventually used POW's and forced laborers for mass production.
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The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist who wanted it recited in schools to honor the opening of the 1893 Chicago World Fair, increase national patriotism, and finally, increase magazine subscription sales.
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The Nazi Party in Germany was the National Socialist Party. Nazi is derived from a Bavarian word that means ‘simple minded".
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The term "Nazi" was originally used in Germany as a derogatory term for a peasant or farmer. The term was later used by German leftists as a slur towards the National Socialist party.
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Ludendorff's political ideas were anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, and pan-German, which put in in line with the views of Hitler and the National Socialists. It is believed that his rivalry with Hitler was more personal and practical than political.
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After Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers" Party came to power, they abolished the treaty one point at a time.
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Richard Wagner has a controversial reputation because he was associated with Nazism and Hitler reportedly suggested that anyone who wanted to understand National Socialist Germany should seek to know Richard Wagner.
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Goebbels, along with Gregor and Otto Strasser, wanted to promote the 'socialist" part of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, which eventually conflicted with Hitler's view of the party's future. Hitler was able to bring Goebbels and the left wing of the Nazi Party back into the fold, though.
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Catt was vehemently opposed to the United States" involvement in World War I, but was equally against Germany's National Socialist government of the 1930s and 1940s.
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The word "Nazi" was actually an insult directed at Hitler's Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party) and meant a foolish person.
Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz (from May 1st to 1940 to December 1st 1943), who confessed to the murder of 2,500,000 people, had trained to become a priest prior to joining the National Socialist SS. - source
Hitler hated being called a Nazi, not because of the National Socialist Movement, but because it was the nickname of a Bavarian hick in German jokes about how low class Bavaria was. - source
The broken chain on the Coat Of Arms of Austria represents the liberation from national socialist (Nazi) dictatorship
Supreme Court Case National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, where the ACLU successfully defended and won the Nazis implied right to march for their political views - source
The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park was originally named the Karl Marx Tree by the Kaweah Cooperative Colony, a socialist utopian community that settled on the land prior to the park's establishment.
Although Ludendorff never severed his ties with the National Socialist, he served as a representative for the German Volkisch Freedom Party in the Reichstag from 1924 to 1928.
The term "Democratic" and "People's" in socialist nations was invented by the USSR to reaffirm the Soviet Union as the superiority in socialist construction and as the center of the world communist movement.
In the 1970s the socialistic Chilean Government tried to create Project Cybersyn a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. The system contained a central opsroom which bore striking resemblance to the aesthetics of the Starship Enterprise.
