Apr 24, 2023
For the early Nazis, Anti-Semitism was a way of uniting the long history of European Anti-Semitism to legitimate grievances against capitalism. So Anti-Semitism was kind of a code for expressing anti-capitalism to people who hated socialism. Hitler, however, had no use for the kinds of social reform advocated by the left wing of the Nazis, so he had all those people killed during the night of the long knives.