Right Wing Extremism Quotes
The two were cousins. Wilhelm was a very dominant personality and his cousin quite weak. This quotation shows the tyrannical view of the German Kaiser. The letters were secret but after the execution of the Czar, the Russians released the letters to show the dominant and warlike history of Germany under the Kaiser who was furious that the Russians had made such personal and secret letters public.
The class distinction that existed in Germany after WWI was immense. The Ehrhardt Brigade was an elite military unit which functioned as a right wing death squad in the German Revolution in 1920. Unlike other German military divisions whose anthems glorified Germany and threatened other nations, the “enemy” of the Ehrhardt Brigade was the working class German. This was the marching song that they sang while marching through the country. They were one of the units that made the Swastika popular and they were the kind of unit that presaged Nazism coming shortly. Imagine the class hostility that must have existed for such an anthem to be socially and governmentally acceptable.
The organization thought that Franklin D. Roosevelt was surrounded by and influenced by communists, and was destroying America for capitalism, when in reality it was Roosevelt who saved capitalism in America by leading the country out of the Great Depression without any revolution or insurgency and maintaining the basic structure of capitalism. They were so fearful of communism that most Americans thought paranoid and unrealistic. When Roosevelt trounced Alf Landon in the 1936 Presidential election, the Liberty League collapsed.