Gregor Strasser & The Nazi Left Wing Documentary
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The tone of the voiceover, and the lack of stupid background music, makes these doccos 2nd to none! Don't change please
Like documentaries in the 90s when media didn't assume we all had attention of goldfish and could hold and learn complex ideas for more than half an hour.
I hear you there. It is annoying to have some otherwise good videos almost ruined by irritating background music.
I really like the voice actor of the old nazi videos and the Roman Emperor videos, but this voice is definitely my second favorite
Using an actor instead of software for the VO is excellent!
Not for long. Soon, stupid music will be playing all day, all night, everywhere, always.
Ever since I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, way back in 1980, I've wondered whether a Strasser-led Nazi Party would have led to a different outcome. And I still have no idea!
Great doc by the way!
They probably would not have been supported by the business community and never gotten power
It would probably lead to civil war.
It still ends the same way
I'm currently reading that book. You ask an interesting question and I don't know either. I do find it fascinating that the Nazi 25 point program had some highly socialistic concepts. Hitler had to repudiate a number of those points to get the support of industrialists. He also made a lot of empty promises to workers to get their support in the 1930s. Incidentally, Rise and Fall is an excellent read. I've learned a lot of things I did not know or only knew in a general sense.
I think almost anyone would have been better than Hitler.
I asked for this one about a year or so ago and boy did you deliver!! Excellent job to all involved.
A fascinating look into one of the lesser-known figures of the early Nazis. Well done, very detailed!
I always wanted to know about Gregor Strasser. It seems his story is a tale as old as time. No matter how powerful or important you are in a dictatorial regime the hand of fate can turn on you at the drop of a dime.
With so much focus on the leaders of the NSDAP in Weimar Germany I’d love to see more information on the KPD.
Perhaps Ernst Thälmann?
There are very few books in English on the leaders of the KPD including Ernst Thalmann and no movies in English on Thalmann. There are about a dozen books on KPD leaders including Thalmann and a movie entitled Ernst Thalmann done by the German Democratic Republic(GDR) in the 1950s...all of these sources are in German. There are several movies on KPD leaders in German. I second your request for a video on Thalmann and other KPD leaders. Good luck!
Love this channel and such a treat to release this on a Friday! I have to say that while the WW2 period is interesting, personally I find the Interwar period to be infinitely more compelling due to this extreme array of larger than life personalities on both sides of the political spectrum.
Would love a video on Heinz Guderian or Ewald von Kleist in the future to continue this German series! :)
Very well nuanced and clearly laid out; a good first-level summary of a historical topic often wrangled over by those with ideological motivations.
Always love listening to these
mmm, heard the name Strasser in passing what must be fifty years ago. haven't been searching but you've delivered a revelation. many thanks.
Thank you to all involved. God bless 🕊
You need to do a documentary on Miklos Horthy, the regent of Hungary!
Good one
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still -motion photography pictures 📷enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Good chance he would continued to support the Nazi regime.
It is truly fascinating to think of just how many ideologies the NSDAP had in its early life. Springs to mind the quote calling the SA “beefsteaks;” brown on the outside, red on the inside, as 50% of SA recruits has former membership in the communist party.
National socialists and international socialists were fighting for the same voters, they are sister ideologies, both see The State as a means to engineer society at the behest of the central planners. Two twigs on the same forced collectivist branch.
The only real enemy of both types of socialists was the classic liberal.
Love the video can you do more World War 2 profiles fantastic work❤
Your documentaries are SO AMAZING GUYS! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
GUYS!?!?! I cant believe you said GUYS!!!! 😮😂
Amen these docs are pure 🔥.
Awesome sauce
Anyone else start an internal thought like this after listening to several of these?
"the____ known to history as...."
such a catchy line!!!
Its amazing how much the socialist and anti capitalist aspects of NS are overlooked by historical narrative, with it obviously having been decided that the NS being anti big finance would not be known as one of the reasons they had to be ended, despite the fact it was the biggest reason of all.
History deciding that it is impossible to force a nation into war, unless that nation is the US, also helps with modern issues such as having backed Russia into a corner, to be able to blame them when they, much too late, defend their security
@@arostwocents Well said!
History showed us that the Nazis just like all fascists are lackeys of the capitalist class and the most ardent supporters of big finance. Who do you think funded the Nazis to power?
The national socialist side of it you mean? Hardly conflatable with socialism per se.
@@brunods4560 They had their own understanding of socialism which also included social programs and somewhat 'leftwing enterprises' in the beginning
At 6:20 you mention Destroyer Class Battleships. I think you mean Dreadnought style Battleships.
There is no such thing as a destroyer class battleship. Destroyers are a separate class of ship which originally derive from torpedo boats (i.e. torpedo boat destroyers).
What did they have before torpedoes were invented?
@@flashgordon6670 not sure I understand your comment. Torpedo was originally another word for early sea mines.
Battleships/Ironclads/Ships-of-the-line used to slug it out with their main guns. The self-propelled torpedoes you see today were designed to be a cheap way to blow a whole below the waterline of a ship and boats were a cheap method of deployment, hence torpedo boat.
In response to torpedo boats boats with guns were designed to counter them, hence torpedo boat destroyer.
Most nations merged these together into a larger vessel as the same ship class capable of doing both, which became the destroyer. The French in particular developed their contre-torpeliers up until the WW2, finalising with the Mogadors. The Italians also built the Capitani Ramanis and the British built the Tribals which lean more into this role.
The role of today's destroyer has changed a lot over the years, with the advent of air power, etc., but it's still fundamentally an escort ship.
The torpedo changed the face of naval warfare and introduced a threat which was very hard to counter, in the same way the missile would decades later.
*Dreadnought (with ou).
@@Timrath good spot, fixed the typo.
@@Joshua-fi4ji The term “Destroyer” for a specific class of warship is an abbreviation. They were originally called “Torpedo Boat Destroyer” but that term got shortened over time.
Currently reading the goebbels diaries, very fitting video for me rn. Keep up the good work, i love your content.
Thanks for another excellent documentary on someone i know next to nothing about
Although I don't agree with your thoughts on the National Socialists all the same it's a well presented documentary... Top notch! It would be interesting if you could do a documentary on German Economist Gottfried Feder who was a mentor to Adolf in the early days and is thought to have been the Architect for Germany's economic recovery.
I’m from Bermuda, and I only learned until recently that Otto, Gregor Strasser’s brother, spent several months on the island during his exile.
I find it to be rather interesting given his prejudiced views on demographics because Bermuda is practically a mashup of various different groups that he would’ve absolutely expressed some form of hate towards.
Some historians and political scientists also believe that this was the time when he started writing his biography “Hitler and I.”
An intriguing episode,thanks.
The political posters shown around 11:30 are not German, but Dutch; probably from about the same time period looking at some of the names involved (Troelstra , Asscher and Witteman).
Good catch, that would be the early 1900s if I'm not mistaken
Live by the sword, die by the night of the long knives. Strasser made too many ideaological enemies.
6:08 Destroyer class battleships? Did you mean dreadnaughts? Great video as always, thank you!
Never be narcissistic enough to correct others who go through the effort of making videos while you sit in mommy’s basement and pass judgment
@coimbralaw I was respectfully asking a question. It was a great video. And never be narcissistic enough to assume I'm in mommy's basement before you pass judgement. Rude for no reason.
Yeah it’s mommy’s attic actually.
@@coimbralaw hey there’s other people being narcissistic in this comment section make sure you correct them too
Another informative and interesting documentary. Thanks so much. 😊
So also, like the “oil that identifies, and behaves as/with water” I can only think hitler had him around for a REASON.
well yea, because he was nazi.
Maybe it was to give the slight impression of choice within the party and thereby getting more votes? I have no clue if that was the strategy, but that's just my guess
Great work. Thank you.
Isn’t it really stupid of humanity how history repeats itself.
Exactly. Can't believe Biden was elected and the first thing he does is charge his opponent with made up crimes.
It would be great if you do story on ww and other topics other than people profiles , it would ve great to listen those as well ❤
Thank you for adding more pieces to the WWII puzzle! In regard to Strasse's economic views I doubt that they would change very much in the course of events. It seems that Hitler was the most ruthless man and any other like him became devoted to him.
I'm sorry, but I do prefer this narration voice over the other. The other one makes me feel like I'm being beaten with a bamboo stick to rush through the story.
You should check out Descent into Darkness as well!
These documentaries should be required viewing in schools......the facts are given clearly and comprehensively with no political agenda.
“Hitler angrily denounced Strasser’s socialism as ‘nothing but Marxism’. The mass of the working class, he went on, wanted only bread and circuses, and would never understand the meaning of an ideal. ‘There is only one possible kind of revolution, and it is not economic or political or social, but racial,’ he avowed. Pushed on his attitude towards big business, Hitler made plain that there could be no question for him of socialization or worker control. The only priority was for a strong state to ensure that production was carried out in the national interest” (Ian Kershaw "Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" 1998, digital: p. 325).
Strasser did not promote worker control. What he wanted was the state ensuring that workers got a fair shake. Strasser, never had a problem with business, only the parts he felt had betrayed Germany in the 1. World war. and he thorght it was controlled by jews. He was a business owner himself, and in no way a Socialist.
You can compare his economic thinking to Social Democrats, only with extreme nationalism, racism and the Fuhrer principle !
"of socialization or worker control"? There is a Nazi workbook in front of me right now, it has everything in it. So don't claim that they didn't control the workers right into the private sector.
_"A strong State will see that production is carried on in the national interests, and, if these interests are contravened, can proceed to expropriate the enterprise concerned and take over its administration."_
- Hitler and I (1940), quotes from unspecified earlier dates per Otto Strasser, Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1940)
_"Germany's economic policy is conducted exclusively in accordance with the interests of the German people. In this respect I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people."_
- Speech on the 21st Anniversary of the National Socialist Party (24 February 1941)
_"“Hitler angrily denounced Strasser’s socialism as ‘nothing but Marxism’. "_
Funny that Ian Kershaw doesn't mention the whole quote... might have something to do with the few lines in the beginning which people want to omit so badly.
_"I am a socialist, and a very different kind of socialist from your rich friend Reventlow. I was once an ordinary workingman... But your kind of socialism is nothing but Marxism. "_
- Hitler and I (1940), quotes from unspecified earlier dates per Otto Strasser, Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1940)
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Socialism in Europe is much broader understood than elsewhere, which is something that still applies to this very day
Great work.
Fascinating doc, poverty leads to hate. Conquer poverty and repress hate
Ironically, the portrait of him you chose for your thumbnail makes him look like the last Nazi you'd want to mess with.
Would love a documentary on Von Hiemmer goglesplitzer
Cue the "Nazis were comminists" comments. 🤢
No, they were socialists, but didn’t kill as many people as communists.
“It’s in the fucking name.” -Gordon Ramsey
National Socialist German Workers Party. Marxism, fascism and national socialism are all related ideologies coming from Hegel.
@@crawdadlando4053 so true! this is why i hate when people say north korea is a dictatorship, look at the name it clearly says "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". Democratic!!! right there in the name!!
The only difference of two is one is based on race and other on class,both are socialist movements
superb stuff! i have always been fascinated by the political history of the Nazi party particularly the rohm/strasser and SA elements, it is obviously quite impossible to imagine how history would have played out if strasser had won a power struggle with hitler(a bit like the stalin/trotsky situation in the Soviet Union) strasser and rohm's accent on the Socialist part of national socialism may have had an economic impact to some extent but their anti semitism and German nationalism would probably have made no real difference to the fate of the Jews and the other persecuted elements although i have doubts about the holocaust occurring had strasser been successful in his struggle with hitler
Thank you great work as usual
Presented well
14:25 Goering admitted to starting the fire
The antagonism between Nazism and Communism is not surprising at all when you actually understand both ideologies. They were competing forms of Socialism with irreconcilable differences, but were both Socialism.
And our common enemy is the Western elite in Davos.
The Strasserite Wing of the NSDAP was Socialist. The Hitlerite Wing of the NSDAP was Not Socialist.
They competed for the same voter base in the early days, the NS 'socialism' did indeed exist but not with the usual Marxist-Leninist origins as say the Social Democrats had
Informative. The video images don't always match the content. Also, apparently Stalin stated an admiration for Hitler's sharp actions in the 1934 "Knight of Long Knives."
The process of creating an effective and successful dictatorship as Hitler did can be messy. Unfortunately Strasser got caught in the crossfire.
I prefer by far Otto Strasser s views and memoirs than that of his brother. Overall, very little understanding of the impact of the treaties of Saint Germain en Laye widely ignored besides the Versailles treaty by which the French of Clémenceau destroyed the old world and imposed their divisive politics accross all of central Europe. They were the real cause of all that ensued till 1948-1949 for which we are now paying the huge price of Western politics in total disarray.
Why is it always the French?
Please do one on Alexander the Great
This like Trotsky vs Stalin.
Very well done and informative documentary; thank you for that. This is completely off topic: Could Naziism have succeded without anti-semitism?? Or to rephrase it: was anti-semitism vital to Hitler's plans?
Granted, Jew-hatred was not new to Germany and the rest of Europe, but was it really necessary to the goals of Naziism? I welcome comments on this speculation.
Under the circumstances I'd say yes it was. If not them then another group would be needed to take the "backstab" blame, and why try to get people to hate a group they don't already? When you have an angry populace you need to move that anger off government and on to someone else. The pervasive anti-semitism simply made using the Jews as a scapegoat easier than any other group. And his whole platform was to restore Germany to a golden age and for that a scapegoat was needed. Look around the world now, anything bad happens a certain country is automatically blamed, sadly it's a different century but same old political tactics.
Succeeded as in gaining power? Yes, similar as to the fascists in Italy
It worked in Italy which had almost a 5th of the Jewish population as part of the Fascist party so quite possibly.
This is interesting
Also, a useful reminder that far-right elements consider as "left" anyone they deem less far-right than themselves, as convenient; and those who serve such far-right movements should be wary of the day they become no longer useful to those movements.
Lol, similar with Communists and the far left.
Mensheviks wanted a word
A pharmacist is a legalized drug dealer. 😂😊😅
Didn't the treaty of Versailles and those who created it play a massive role in the creation of the Nazi party...nobody seems to want to attach any blame to them. The treaty also led directly to WW2. In fact there wouldn't have been any reason for either to happen without it, yet all we hear is how Hitler and his disciples are to blame for everything.
Sure, and if you go further back, to the 1880's, you will find that the reason Germans and Austria-Hungarians were eager to get revenge on France because of Napoleon's conquests. That rivalry streches back to the Gauls and the Huns. Its just a matter of where you want to start keeping score.
Start keeping score in Ancient Sumer with Goner the Sumerian from Ghostbusters. “Nifty lil minx “int she?”
The Versailles treaty did help lead to the rise of mass turmoil in Germsny and the. Rise of naizism...
What was Strasser's views on the conquest of Europe by force? The decision to start WWII was not foregone in the early '30s, was it? Were there segments of the party that showed no interest in conquest, lebensraum and all that? Or was the subjugation of all European peoples a policy without exception in the party?
The remilitarization of Rheinland and a 'second look' at the Polish border would probably still have happened regardless of who was in charge imo, which alone you could argue were legitimate claims but Hitler swallowed up everything else inbetween
Humans... and human conflict... always and forever....
I live in Traunstein 🔥
Almost like they were racial socialists or something.
True the Strasserite wing of the NSDAP was more revolutionary.
my conclusion is, if Strasserism had won out over the little Austrian ,the events that unfolded would have taken place, but under a more organised Strasser govt would have been delivered more effectively ,and perhaps the outcome of ww2 would have been different .example a PACT between Germany and the USSR ,(cccp) MAY have held , altering the outcome of ww2 ?
Thinking everything would have unfolded the same is ridicilous
Strasser was smarter. He wouldn't have invaded the USSR until an armistice had been signed with Britain, which might have happened because Strasser likely would have called out Goering for his incompetence and corruption, replacing him as head of the Luftwaffe and perhaps winning the Battle of Britain.
human volves always finish , to devour each others !!!
He might have added a little class to nazism ? but not to the holocaust !
The middle class SS replaced the working class SA, in other words
Leaving this comment to feed the youtube algorithm
least sanest german dudes in HOI4:
No WW2 , a continuing democracy
6:08 dreadnought
As usual: "Bias, Bias, and Bias, to reflect...
Eine oberflächliche und geirrte Geschichte.
Was so genau?
Super strasser bros
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National Bolshevik guy mentioned
The Nazi "Left" very much wasn't left in terms of economics but geo-strategic concerns and political structure. Otto Strasser is the point of this, who despite being more like 'democratic' and 'reformist' like the original Austro-Suden-Polish DNSAPs, was socially more reactionary, not too disimilar to Pol Pots "agarian utopia", to a pre-capitalist mode of production.
Compare it with Hitler, who wanted a post-capitalist mode of production with a Soviet-style Senate, Peoples' Council and Chamber of Estates (the PC and CE is also seen in Strasserist theory).
in the end, Gregor was a 'socialist' Nazi who stayed with Hitler, but due to him making alliances with nationalists and those talks involving replacing Hitler with him, it seems to me that it wasn't a surprise that Hitler may have ordered his death.
I think Hitler and his loyalists saw the socialist Nazis as potentially allying with the soviet union in the near future. Especially as they grew more alienated by the pro capitalist and war mongering agenda of Hitler
The closest thing to a mass movement of something analogous to German National Bolshevism was Hamburg Communism tbh.
All of the National Socialists were socialists. After all, You cannot be an advocate for centralized planning and strong government controls without being a socialist. That's what made Hitler a socialist. He may have been to the right from the Bolsheviks, but he was still a socialist leftist as he believed in strong central government control. Hitler outright declared himself a socialist in Mein Kampf, just not the Marxist international or full Soviet type. He struggled with HOW to distinguish his socialism from the rest of the Marxist crowd.
Puts the Socialist into National Socialist!
>Austrian war hero bad
seems mostof the nais were from baveria
Very interesting but don't get all the big words. Could you make a picture book version for me?
Biggly thanks, Donald J Trump.
Regarding after math of the
war we can't say much
about it. It was a total disaster.
But what's the point talking
about negative aspect of the war of anyone's opinions.
I have learned not to give
any negative talks
No good for anyone
to listen oh to read what
happen was happened
That't it
All under the bridge !
Social engineering is Social ism , communism,fascism, nazism, progressivism, administrative welfare statism, post modernism. Mix and match. Interchangeable, synonymous.
Only interchangeable if you're a halfwit. You're not a halfwit, are you?
Once a Democratic Socialist, always a Democratic Socialist, just ask Pelosi, Schumer, Bernis, or AOC
and that means what? I don't understand what you want to say unless it is "I have high respect for people that stay true to their values".
Those democrats you just named are not socialists
I guess for Aoc, Pelosi and Schumer are more so neo libs.
Bro no one you listed was Socialist
@@Yeeteledeet0909 Sanders is one, from what I'm getting
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"left" of the far far right nazis. Would still make him far right nationalist
Confining political ideologies to a spectrum as simple as left and right is not a good idea
@@Fella12366even worse is reducing them to single one word terms, decontextualizing them
No, NSDAP had actual 'far left' support in the early days, up until the night of the long knifes - it doesnt make Hitler a leftie
*This has nothing to do with Far-Right nor Right wing in general.*
Third Position. Not "Far-right."
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um... that's not possible
What is not possible?
Dangerous, unbalanced humans really, really hate those who know them best.