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Source link: http://archive.mises.org/1588/the-origins-of-nazism/

The Origins of Nazism

February 19, 2004 by

It is sometimes claimed that Nazism arose as a reactionary movement to reclaim the German past. Ludwig von Mises refuted this point in Omnipotent Government (1944), now online for the first time. Nazism, Mises shows, has it roots in the Prussian Constitutional Conflict of the 1860s, and the brief career of Ferdinand Lassalle. “Lassalle was not himself a Nazi,” writes Mises, “but he was the most eminent forerunner of Nazism, and the first German who aimed at the Führer position.” [More]

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