A PP senator wonders if history “told us something wrong” by describing the Nazis as “extremely correct”

“How did a National Socialist party end up being classified as “extreme right”?” This question was asked by PP senator Esther del Brio on social networks. And she adds: “Have they already told us something wrong about the history of the 20th century?”

The message, published on “Is it only because of their opposition to communism?” began a debate by Del Brio asking whether this was the only reason to consider the Nazi Party as extreme right-wing.

The senator, who has been in the upper house’s popular group since 2015, explains in response to users of the social network formerly known as Twitter that her aim is to find a logic that is “not explained in secondary school” to understand why it considers the Nazis a far-right movement. “Was your party constitutional, national and socialist? Or does it break with the principles of socialism?”

Some users respond to the PP senator with sarcasm. “Break down socialism the same way Italian fascism was broken, literally breaking the lives of its militants,” said one of the tweet’s replies. “El Corte Inglés is English, as its name suggests,” says another sarcastically.

The senator alleges that the essence of his query lies in “what was called the extreme right in times of fascism and how this term is used today”, and then denounces the “feeling of suffocation” when “labeling people like this” “perfectly normal people”.

After several conversations with other users of the social network, the senator concluded by pointing out that this is a question “on which everyone who gives their opinion has a different opinion.” “And there are also those who say that there is no debate or insult to discredit,” he explains.

Some users pointed out to the senator that the image he shared of the alleged Hitler phrase is not actually his, but is attributed to another Nazi leader, Gregor Strasser, and that the allusion to socialism was only meant to attract disgruntled workers during the country’s economic crisis.

Nazism was one of the high points of the recent campaign for the European elections. The candidate of the far-right German party AfD said that not all members of the SS were “criminals”. Those statements caused other far-right groups, such as Marine Le Pen in France or Salvini in Italy, to break with their German allies.

“How did a National Socialist party end up being classified as “extreme right”?” This question was asked by PP senator Esther del Brio on social networks. And she adds: “Have they already told us something wrong about the history of the 20th century?”

The message, published on “Is it only because of their opposition to communism?” began a debate by Del Brio asking whether this was the only reason to consider the Nazi Party as extreme right-wing.