“The dividing line in military units based in Munch during the time of the Soviet Republic ran not between the left and the right, but between the radical left and the moderate left, which puts Hitler on the moderate left.”

— Thomas Weber (historian)

Source: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi (2017), p. 67

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