Daily Mail columnist said ‘Nazis weren’t fascists’

The word Nazi seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment.

The MSM is blaming Gary Lineker after this tweet, where he didn’t actually write the word Nazi.

This was Gary Lineker’s Tweet, he didn’t call @Conservatives or any Conservative MP a Nazi. They appear to have ‘misread’ what Gary said or of course, they have defined themselves by their words and actions. #RefugeesWelcome #StopTheHate pic.twitter.com/2CTFqoQwqg
— Lisa (@LisaMWatki) March 8, 2023

The Daily Mail is fuming about it

Here is one of their recent front pages.

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If this was a parody of a Daily Mail front page I'd dismiss it as too on the nose but as it's real I just wanna say that until now a "Nazi slur" meant something VERY different. pic.twitter.com/6YlnpUgr0U
— Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) March 9, 2023

So it seems strange that Mail columnist would tweet this…

But it seems Petronella Wyatt did, when she wrote: “And the Nazis weren’t fascists. They were National Socialists.”

The tweet has since been deleted.

She also tweeted: “Lately, it seems to be acceptable to hurl the word “Nazi” at anyone you disagree with. This is a terrible distortion of history and whitewashes the Nazis into a group of merely disagreeable people.”

And this…

That is not what they called themselves. Mussolini called himself a “fascist”. However, the Nazi’s form of National Socialism is not how we think of socialism, and it was for “Aryans” only.
— Petronella Wyatt (@PetronellaWyatt) March 9, 2023

Reactions

There was a lot of anger, and bemusement, at her tweet…

Some days I wonder why the UK is in such a mess and then I remember we have you spouting ridiculous monologues.
— Simon Kett (@skett2605) March 9, 2023

https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1633857990049636354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1633857990049636354%7Ctwgr%5E80cdbc9062bd6c887554eae64a89e343bc3ed474%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepoke.co.uk%2F2023%2F03%2F10%2Fmail-columnist-said-nazis-not-fascists%2F

Hi 👋 I’ve written an actual book on fascists, and I’m pretty fucking confident that fascist Germany was a fascist state led by a fascist party
— Dr. Ian Garner (@irgarner) March 9, 2023

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It must have blown your mind when you discovered that buffalo wings aren't made from buffalo.
— Steph Paton (@stephenpaton134) March 9, 2023

She's gonna be absolutely baffled by Steel Magnolias. "When are we gonna see the metal flowers?!?!?!" she'll yell. https://t.co/qEEVIA61jJ
— Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) March 9, 2023

People who think WWII NAZIs had national socialists in them also think:

Hamburgers have ham in them.

Corned beef has corn in it.

Horseradish had horses in it.

Hot dogs have dogs in them.

Eggplants have eggs in them.

(It's not what you CALL something that matters.) https://t.co/7AgWoJnTlW
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) March 9, 2023

Reputable

She also said she would only debate this topic with someone who was a ‘reputable historian,’

She suggested ‘you start with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. Once you’ve read it, I might consider debating with you.’

Why don’t you read a history of Nazi Germany by a reputable historian, instead of resorting, in your typically lazy way, to the internet? I suggest you start with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. Once you’ve read it, I might consider debating with you.
— Petronella Wyatt (@PetronellaWyatt) March 9, 2023

Then she was schooled AGAIN!

James Urbaniak shared an excerpt of the book which again ruins Wayatt’s argument.