The Nazi appealed to the socialist traditions of German labor, declaring the worker ‘a pillar of the community,' and the ‘bourgeois'-along with the traditional aristocracy-a doomed class. Hitler, who told associates that he was a ‘socialist,' had the party adopt the red flag and, on coming to power, declared May 1 a national holiday; Nazi Party members were ordered to address one another as ‘comrades (Genossen). His conception of the part was, like Lenin's, that of a militant organization a Kampfbund, or ‘Combat League. (Richard Pipes)

The Nazi appealed to the socialist traditions of German labor, declaring the worker ‘a pillar of the community,' and the ‘bourgeois'-along with the traditional aristocracy-a doomed class. Hitler, who told associates that he was a ‘socialist,' had the party adopt the red flag and, on coming to power, declared May 1 a national holiday; Nazi Party members were ordered to address one another as ‘comrades (Genossen). His conception of the part was, like Lenin's, that of a militant organization a Kampfbund, or ‘Combat League.

Richard Pipes

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