MG: Too bad Louis P. isn't on this list. He hasonline access to everything written back to biblical times.
There'sanother reason it's too bad he isn't here; he could demolish your nonsensicalecho of the traditional babble about the German CP & the triumph ofNaziism.
Carrol
************ I hope I’m not being too presumptuous in trying to fill in forLouis. When, in 1923, the French invaded the Ruhr Valley of Germany forthe latter country’s failure to pay war reparations under the Versailles Treaty,therewas armed resistance on the part of Germans, led by the Nazis and otherrightist elements. The Communist International, then under the leadership ofNikolai Bukharin, adopted a position of support for German resistance. This wasknown as the Comintern’s “Schlageter Line”. It was, by accounts I’ve read, apurely episodic pro-Nazi swerve on the Comintern’s part, neither persisted innor repeated. It took place at a time when the full implications of NationalSocialism were not grasped. In the late 20s, the Stalinist Comintern did indeedpursue a disastrously sectarian policy toward the Nazis, refusing to employ anyunited-front tactics with the Social Democracy, whom the Stalinists dubbed the “leftwing of fascism.” This ultra-left “third-period” lurch was one factor thatenabled Hitler to seize power despite the fact that socialists in Germany faroutnumbered the Nazis. This was not, however, the same as “siding with”Naziism. Jim Creegan