# What would real Nazis think of Neo-Nazis? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073 "2016-05-06T16:46:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/1 "2016-05-06T16:46:59Z")
One for history buffs and connoisseurs of scumbags, apropos of [this](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36211652) viral picture of a black woman, fist raised in defiance against a ‘Nordic Resistance Movement’ rally in Sweden. By ‘real’ Nazis, I mean actual members of the NSDAP circa 1933-1945, if through a timey-wimey ball they could meet their modern, er, descendants, see their propaganda, have a chat and so on what would their impression be? Dolfy I think would be reminded of the Brownshirt thugs he reigned in on the Night of the Long Knives. I have a feeling Goebbels would disapprove of them not focusing enough on the ‘people’s community’ that he wanted Germany molded into. Himmler was into all sorts of neo-pagan whackadoo bullshit so I think him approving of any continuation of it, SS ‘runes’ and such. As one of the architects of the Holocaust and proponent of keeping the whole thing hush-hush I can only imagine him being pleased at attempts to convince people it never happened. Just my guesses, though. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/2 "2016-05-06T17:21:01Z")
“Vhy ist dat man nicht wearing a shirt? Vere ist his Hugo Boss?” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/3 "2016-05-06T18:23:27Z")
it would be the same effect as what happened with the brownshirts theyed use them as long as they could and dispose of them when they weren’t needed But according to a few former skin heads who met a real Nazi officer in Germany in the 80s their impression was theyed be considered street scum and either "reeducated on proper conduct " or terminated … ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/4 "2016-05-06T18:36:19Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > it would be the same effect as what happened with the brownshirts theyed use them as long as they could and dispose of them when they weren’t needed > > But according to a few former skin heads who met a real Nazi officer in Germany in the 80s their impression was theyed be considered street scum and either "reeducated on proper conduct " or terminated … As the Dead Kennedy’s sang to Nazi Punks: “In a real fourth reich you’ll be the first to go” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/5 "2016-05-06T18:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > What would real Nazis think of Neo-Nazis? “Useful Idiots”. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/6 "2016-05-06T19:20:17Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > “Useful Idiots”. Best … answer … evah. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/7 "2016-05-06T19:40:39Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > As one of the architects of the Holocaust and proponent of keeping the whole thing hush-hush I can only imagine him being pleased at attempts . . . would point out that your dangling participle indicates that _you_ are one of the architects of the Holocaust. 😃 [returning to full lurk mode] ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/8 "2016-05-06T22:10:39Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Best … answer … evah. Especially if you recall the source I am quoting. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/9 "2016-05-07T02:44:45Z")
This meme about sums it up. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/10 "2016-05-07T03:52:48Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > This meme about sums it up. One of the unfortunate things about surfing the Dope from Tapatalk is that you can’t hover your mouse over a link before clicking it. Case in point: had I known you were linking to a Nazi website, I probably wouldn’t have clicked. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/11 "2016-05-07T04:35:53Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > One of the unfortunate things about surfing the Dope from Tapatalk is that you can’t hover your mouse over a link before clicking it. Case in point: had I known you were linking to a Nazi website, I probably wouldn’t have clicked. I apologize for that-I googled for that meme and clicked on the first one that appeared without checking the site. ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/12 "2016-05-07T13:25:55Z")
Considering the German leadership purged itself of Ernst Röhm and his Sturmabteilung thugs, I can’t imagine they would have had much use for the current crop of retards and wannabes. If anything, they would have handed them a one-way ticket to the Eastern Front and called it a day. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/13 "2016-05-07T13:28:58Z")
That Handsome Heinrich guy could probably answer, but he got booted. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/14 "2016-05-07T13:48:40Z")
‘Useful idiots’ is the best answer. That’s what most of the ‘real’ Nazis were anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/15 "2016-05-07T14:51:46Z")
At best, they’d be viewed as the SA. A group of street fighters to be used to gain political power, then to be disbanded when power was achieved. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/16 "2016-05-07T15:55:38Z")
The converse would also be an interesting question: how would the neos feel upon meeting actual nazis? Maybe not necessarily key leadership but Germans supporting the cause and mid-level military officers. ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/17 "2016-05-07T17:21:36Z")
There were TWO Nazi parties in the 1930s. The famous one was in Germany, of course. But, there was a second one in the USA called the [German American Bund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund). In 1936, the leader of the Bund, [Fritz Kuhn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Julius_Kuhn), an especially delightful human being, went to Germany for the Olympics. He met Hitler and other high level Nazis. Overall reaction by the German Nazis to the Bundists: Meh. Probably better that way in any case. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/18 "2016-05-07T22:28:53Z")
> [@UncaStuart](#): > > . . . would point out that your dangling participle indicates that _you_ are one of the architects of the Holocaust. > > 😃 [returning to full lurk mode] Oops, gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘grammar Nazi’… ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-real-nazis-think-of-neo-nazis/754073/19 "2016-05-07T22:45:19Z")
Well, it is also “reined in”, not “reigned in”.