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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 14 March 2016 06:00:11PM *  1 point [-]

Personally I'd be happy saying that they explicitly endorse Nazism and are just lying about it.

I could argue over the semantics of 'explicitly' but basically they are Nazis whether they all admit it or not.

Traditional views on sex and gender must be preserved for fear of moral degeneracy.

I don't think they actually beleived this. Perhaps traditional views on sex and gender must be preserved to maintain the Aryan birthrate, but that's a little different - if premarital sex leads to lots of Aryan babies, I doubt they would object.

Interestingly, the leader of the SA was gay.

To achieve all these things, it is necessary for the nation's security forces to be able to know and control what everyone says and does.

Of course, modern day Germany does censor the internet for anti-migrant comments...

Comment author: gjm 14 March 2016 06:28:47PM 0 points [-]

I don't think they actually believed this.

It's not clear to me what they actually believed. They may have been inconsistent.

modern-day Germany does censor the internet

Pretty much all governments, ancient and modern, left and right, intrude more into their citizens' affairs than I'd like. But the Nazis seem to have been quite a lot worse in that respect than today's German government.

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