Nazism

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department in the
Berlin police, detailed to watch anticonstitutional activities, was put
under Goring's command. As of April 26, 1933, this old Department IA of
the Prussian political police was replaced by the Geheime Staatspolizei
("Secret State Police"), better known as the Gestapo. Within two years its
actiones would be free from judicial review and it would take its place
beside the SD (Sicherheitsdienst, or "Security Service") and the security
branch of the SS in a sadistic competition to achieve the totalitarian
state.

Until this time Nazism was very much a function of communism-- the
other side of the revolutionary coin. Now, within Germany, National
Socialism stood alone. Communism was gone as a counterweight.

The Jews, if their reviled relationship to Nazism had been simply that
of expedient scapegoat, could now have been passed over. Hitler had
arrived and did not need them in his further rise to dictator and conqueror.
As unprincipled conqueror, he ...

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