Tea at Trianon: The Nazis were Socialists, too.

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

The Nazis were Socialists, too.

Here is a fantastic article that I have been hoping someone would write, and someone did. It is about how the Nazis and the Communists were united in their atheistic, materialistic philosophies; both were enemies of Pope Pius XII, and both slandered him. Share

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: The truth is coming out. It is odd that in the '50s when there was such an anti-communist fervor in this country there were really no hard facts exposed as to the atrocities, etc. Only lately, when one feels there is a malaise in this country and no fervor or passion about anything,that the
truth is coming out. Thankfully more and more is coming out to rectify the bad press the Pope had received.; March 6, 2007 at 6:52:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...: Ah Madame. I often find that when I tell people that the Nazi and the communist are both leftist. Nazi means National Socialist Workers Party. What more does one need to identify them. I am amazed when the left means to insult someone they call them a Nazi. But then I remember that, 1. since Stalin hated nazis they must also, and 2. Communists are relativly left of the left so Nazis wuoold seem as right wing.

de Brantigny; March 7, 2007 at 3:53:00 PM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, the Communist Party in the Weimar Republic was so bumbling that the LEFT threw it's might behind the National Socialists. Yes, Stalin hated the Nazis, but originally Stalin and Hitler were allies.; March 7, 2007 at 4:07:00 PM EST