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I believe you are mistaken, Tom.

Nazi philosophy was based on the belief that some human beings are intrinsically superior to all others (in their case, it was genetic) and that gave them the right to rule, or even exterminate those they considered inferior. They further believed that this self-evident superiority could not manifest itself naturally because it was frustrated by the diabolical opposition of their enemies (the Jews). I always was amused at how they had such fear of those they felt totally inferior to them.

The Communists may have wound up in the same place, but they started from the opposite pole. Their philosophy argued that everyone was identical and that differences between people were solely the result of manipulation of the system by the evil classes in charge of it. They felt that abolition of this system would miraculously allow everyone to naturally participate in a society of equality and brotherhood that would arise spontaneously as soon as their enemies who were diabolically opposing it were eliminated.

To their victims, the two systems no doubt looked identical, but that is always the result when fanatics mistake their political prejudices for the laws of physics.

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