Did Hitler say that National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing?

A number of sources claim that the Fuhrer of the German nation in one of the speeches equated the ideology of his party with Marxism. We checked whether this is really so.

As he writes in his work "Russian Revolution" The well-known professor of Russians and Russian history of Harvard University Richard Pipe, in the speech, uttered on February 24, 1941, Hitler openly argued that "the National Socialism and Marxism is the same." This quote can also be found on social networks (Vk, LJ). It is very popular in the West, where it meets in numerous collections Quote.

On February 24, 1941, a meeting on the occasion of the next, 21st anniversary of the NSDAP foundation was held in the famous Munich beer restaurant. It was here, in the town where Bavarian kings, Mozart and Lenin snapped at one time, in 1920 Hitler proclaimed the creation of his party and announced the program "25 points". This time, there were no particularly epoch -making statements in his speech, except that the Fuhrer announced the plan to intensively use submarines in hostilities and recalled that he repeatedly proposed the world of France and England, which rejected it.

The speech of the leader of the Third Reich is completely documented - there is Text, so Audiovarian Along with full -fledged translation into English. Hitler speaks in her “Marxist” Hitler only three times, and in none of the cases this is not what we need, only words about the fruitlessness of such movements.

Where did this quote come from? The beginning of its widespread was dated to 1944, when the book of the Austro-British economist and political philosopher, the future Nobel Prize for the Economics of Frederick von Hayek under the name “Way to Freedom”, was published. On one of its pages you can see the following footnote:

“In this regard, it can be recalled that in February 1941, Hitler in one of his public speeches ... I considered it appropriate to say that" National Socialism and Marxism at the basis of his own-the same thing. "

The author refers to the English -speaking (like the book itself) “Bulletin of International News”, even indicating a specific page. Indeed, on March 8, 1941, this periodic publication appeared articlededicated to Hitler's speech in Hoyfbrohaus. It provides a summary of the speech, and only about the quote of interest to us only It is saidthat she sounded "in the final part." However, as we already know, Hitler did not say anything like this.

It is curious that on May 2 of the same year, a reader named Waters appeared in the Free Europe publication, according to which Hitler did not say that “National Socialism and Marxism at the basis of his own is the same thing.” Waters added that the reverse statement was the result of “the mistake of one of the news agencies, about which on March 1 reported The New Statesman and Nation British magazine:

It is difficult to assert something concrete regarding the mechanism of the appearance of this error in the press-the journal said about the use of the word “fascism” instead of “Marxism”, but there is no such quote in the original. Nevertheless, the fact remains: in his speech of February 24, 1941, as in other public speeches, Adolf Hitler never equated Marxism with fascism. In the book of German politician German Raushining "Says Hitler: Beast from the Abyss" The following quote from Hitler, allegedly heard personally by Raushning, is given: “I learned a lot from the Marxists. And I admit it without hesitation. But I did not study their boring social studies, historical materialism and all sorts of "marginal utility." I studied their methods. <...> National Socialism is what Marxism could become if he had been freed from his absurd artificial connection with the democratic structure. ”

As you can see, these words have a fundamentally different meaning. In addition, Raushinda memoirs are made by historians under great doubt - countsthat the German invented most of his conversations with the Fuhrer, with whom he met only a few times in his life. Nevertheless, quotes from them continue to print - for example, the same Richard Pipe in his "Russian Revolution". And the fake quote about National Socialism and Marxism that we examined continues to live, largely thanks to the mention of Frederick von Hayek’s book “The Way to Freedom”.

The image on the cover: Wikipedia.

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