Richard Willerton, in his Aug. 31 letter “Civilization relies on coal and gas,” implied that Adolf Hitler was some kind of leftist by reminding us that the word Nazi is short for National Socialist Democratic Worker. In fact, “Nazi” only stands for “National Socialist.” Democratic workers are not represented by the word. Actually, the only reason the word socialist is in there is because Hitler wanted to appeal to workers while he was rising to power. One of the first things he did upon taking power was destroy the working class, of course.
Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of history knows that Nazism arose as a reaction against Communism with the declared purpose of destroying it.
I might also point out that it was the anti-Communist capitalists, not the Communists, who rescued Nazis after World War II and employed them with the CIA for use against the Soviet Union.
