“[T]he NSDAP is the German Left. We despise bourgeois nationalism.”

— Joseph Goebbels

Der Angriff, (December 6, 1931) written by Goebbels. Der Angriff (The Attack) was the official newspaper of the Nazi-Sozi party in Berlin.
1930s

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