Review of Death of a Nation (2018) by Couldbebetter — 15 Aug 2018

D'Souza has become an unequivocal hack. It's not some worldwide conspiracy that Nazis and fascists are called far-right just because "the Left" has propagated revisionist history. In the Weimar Republic years, the NSDAP members occupied the seats of parliament which were literally the farthest to the right. The Nazis knew they were of the Right. The non-Nazi German conservatives of the time knew they were of the Right. Reasonable conservatives all over Europe know the Nazis were of the Right. All you're doing is the same repulsive deflecting **** that left-wingers do when they say the brutal far-left governments of the 20th century were actually right-wing.

Each European nation's fascist movement were comprised of former conservatives/former conservative voters. The NSDAP (Nazi Party) gained popularity at the expense of Germany's other right-wing parties in the early 1930's. The German People's Party, German National People's Party, and most splinter right-wing parties saw almost all of their support transfer to the Nazis.

See for yourself: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/German_parliamentary_elections_weimar.png.

That link has the best illustrations of every German federal election after the war. Yeah, I'm sorry it's in German, but it shows the highest voted party in each state and the total percentage of the vote each major party received. I share it to plainly show how the Nazi Party consumed the German Right in the early 1930's. Look up the voting results for yourself if you aren't convinced.

If you want a clear and concise online source for the interwar politics of Germany, then I'll direct you to the modern German federal parliament's links about the topic.

This one has brief descriptions of all the major political parties: https://www.bundestag.de/blob/189776/01b7ea57531a60126da86e2d5c5dbb78/parties_weimar_republic-data.pdf.

This one is an overview of the Weimar era: https://www.bundestag.de/en/parliament/history/parliamentarism/weimar.

And this one is an overview of the Nazi years: https://www.bundestag.de/en/parliament/history/parliamentarism/third_reich/third_reich/200358.

The Harzburg Front was a broad right-wing alliance that supported autocracy over republicanism.

Https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/the-harzburg-front-of-1931/.

Really, the only conservatives who supported the republic at this point were center-right moderates of the Catholic Center Party.

The traditional German imperial colors are black, white, and red, which is what right-wingers raised in defiance of the new German State post-1918. This is why the N.S. incorporated these colors in their flag. Even after the N.S. takeover of 1933, they would still fly the old German Empire flags in combination with the swastika flags. In the famous propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" you can see these flags alternate with swastika flags as the camera is moving down streets.

So what were some of the right-wing groups of the Germanic region at the time? The DNVP? The DVP? The BVP? The DVFP? The Freikorps? The Stahlhelm? The Pan-German League? And why?.

As I mentioned before, the N.S. were self-described right-wingers, and held friendly relations with other right-wing groups throughout Western Europe. The most notable of which was the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right during the Spanish Civil War. This was a proxy war for Germany and Italy to aid the Spanish right-wing nationalists with eradicating the democratically elected Popular Front (the combined forces of all the Spanish left-wing parties) from power--and succeeded after nearly 3 years of fighting.