This month, Germany’s embassy in Brazil was forced to remind people that Nazis were indeed right-wing — and not left-wing, as some Brazilian commentators have claimed. The Brazilian backlash came after the embassy posted a video on Twitter, in which it sought to explain Berlin’s approach to remembering the Holocaust. Some Brazilian far-right supporters then appeared to regard the embassy’s association of Nazis with the right wing as slanderous. The Hitler Party was called party of Socialist Workers,” wrote one commentator, responding on Facebook. Political scientists today assume the Nazis mainly added the word to gain the support of working-class voters who had previously supported left-wing parties.

Source: National Post September 21, 2018 16:18 UTC