Nazis and Commies

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I've been going through William L. Shirer's. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" looking for a passage about how the judges of the day refused to allow meaningful prosecution of the Nazis.

While searching online for additional clues, I stumbled upon a different book: "Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance" by Timothy Scott Brown.

On page 136 he writes that Rudolf Diels, the first head of the SS estimated that 70% of the Brownshirts were former Communists.


https://books.google.com/books?id=Vh6OnfbJRwgC&pg=PA121&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

[SVPete]

Painting with a broad broom, by the late 1920s, Germany was on the point of coming under Communist or Nazi rule, and the main difference between them was whether industrialist and farm owners would get exterminated or did their singing in golden or gilded cages.