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Home » News » Lineker row: Mail writer’s claim about Nazis is craziest one yet

Lineker row: Mail writer’s claim about Nazis is craziest one yet

"Examine your conscience - if you have one," said one person in response.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
March 13, 2023
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The Gary Lineker row is still the only show in town, especially if you watched the silent 20 min Match of the Day episode on Saturday night.

So what is the new right-wing smear on Lineker, which has now been expanded to anyone who thinks people in the channel should be regarded as humans?

It is unhinged, kind of comment that should get you sacked from the BBC maybe?

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Left-wing

Well, Peter Hitchens, for it is he, who tweeted a new opinion piece and wrote: “Nobody seems to know one crucial fact. The Nazis were very Left-wing. They hated Christianity and deliberately set children against their parents. They imposed penal taxes on the middle class and attracted Communists to their ranks.

“Like all bad Left-wing causes, they were very popular with students. If you take the forest path up from the pretty university town of Heidelberg, you will find, half lost among the trees, a large, disused Nazi amphitheatre where the students used to hold torchlight rallies and sing their hateful songs.”

This is a new level of madness in the row over Nazis, Nazi slurs (whatever that means) and the collective breakdown at the BBC management level.

In case you think Peter has a point here is Full Fact’s take on the issue: “While their name did include the word “socialist”, their policies and treatment of left-wing opponents show they were not socialists in any meaningful sense.”

Nobody seems to know one crucial fact. The Nazis were very Left-wing. They hated Christianity and deliberately set children against their parents. They imposed penal taxes on the middle class and attracted Communists to their ranks. https://t.co/mvP2e8MP5H via @mailplus

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) March 11, 2023

Reactions

1.

Ironic of the Brown Shirts-loving Daily Mail to publish this sort of rubbish… Does that mean the Mail is left wing too?

— Nicolas Chinardet (@zefrog) March 11, 2023

2.

By “fact” you mean “fiction.”

— Tom Bacon (@TomABacon) March 11, 2023

3.

What a disgusting falsehood. You're echoing the tropes of the far right and spreading a dangerous lie about history.

Examine your conscience – if you have one.

— Elinor Elliot (@ElliotElinor) March 11, 2023

4.

First they came for the socialists.
Then they came for these unionists…..

But Peter Hitchens and The Daily Mail say they were socialists.

Maybe they should go to Dachau and check their facts instead of spreading falsehoods and far-right bigotry. https://t.co/UlNDdF0EA9

— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) March 11, 2023

5.

Proof that Peter Hitchens is an ideologically extreme propagandist, who has a very loose relationship with the truth.

Hitchens – like everyone who went to school – knows that Nazis rounded up, imprisoned, & executed communists, socialists, union organisers, & other left-wingers. pic.twitter.com/lY8qVoHvLX

— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) March 11, 2023

6.

Peter Hitchens just told Britain First and White Supremacists they should stop supporting Boris Johnson and Donald Trump because they are in fact Left-Wing and should be supporting Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders bet they feel embarrassed? #SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/61hig4aK2p

— Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar (@DickMackintosh) March 12, 2023

7.

Anybody still under the delusion that Peter Hitchens is some form of intellectual heavyweight

Time to get rid of that idea after today

He's just another populist lie monger writing crap on demand pic.twitter.com/zKRVDmCW5s

— Louis 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 〓〓 💙 Defend the right to vote (@LouisHenwood) March 11, 2023

8.

This is so wrong on every level. The Nazis killed socialists. Insulting drivel. What is wrong with these people?

— Helen Salmon – Who voted for this? (@HelenSalmon2) March 12, 2023

9.

Maybe he should have read this?

"The Communist Party and Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany were banned in 1933. Many SPD members were arrested, sent to concentration camps. The first concentration camp in Dachau, built-in 1933, was intended to inter the Nazi’s left-wing opponents"https://t.co/Qfok3mxaqd

— Weapons Of Mass Deception 🥀 (@iwaslabour) March 12, 2023

Or simply

Nobody seems to know this one crucial fact because it’s…. bollocks!

— Claire #EnoughIsEnough 💙 (@clairebubblepop) March 12, 2023

Related: BBC right-wing backlash: Lineker leaves MotD & broadcaster ‘cancels’ Attenborough

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Joe Mellor

Joe Mellor

Owner of Spotted News and former Head of News for The London Economic.

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