Norman Tebbit said this in the Telegraph and these are the only replies you need
Here’s Norman Tebbit writing in the Daily Telegraph in an article which went online on Monday.
A history lesson for those who would smear the moderate Right: the Nazis were socialists, writes Norman Tebbithttps://t.co/XwapSqVuPv
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 24, 2018
He is responding to a front page story in the New Statesman warning against the ‘return of fascism’ (although, in Tebbit world, it’s just the magazine ‘at its old game’).
And here’s what everyone else had to tell the Tory life peer and former Cabinet secretary.
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A lesson from actual historians: The Nazis were *not* socialists.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 24, 2018
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Any keystage 3 history student could tell you that the Nazis persecuted, executed and sent socialists to death camps.
So let's call Norman Tebbit's "history lesson" what it is.
A lie. https://t.co/moMLWaTeJj
— Damien Walter (@damiengwalter) September 24, 2018
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A lesson for Norman Tebbit: read a book. https://t.co/YsMiMUERR3
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) September 24, 2018
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A history lesson for those who care about history. The Daily Telegraph used to be a newspaper. https://t.co/N74duApTgo
— John O'Farrell (@mrjohnofarrell) September 24, 2018
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of faces suddenly had a palm placed on them, and were suddenly embarrassed. I fear Norman Tebbit has happened again. https://t.co/ud3L0w4jyn
— Stephen Paton (@stephenpaton134) September 24, 2018
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NORMAN TEBBIT: But 'Nazi' stood for 'National socialists' don't you-
ANYONE NORMAL: If I write 'CAPITALISM' on the side of a crocodile, does that make it a capitalist crocodile? https://t.co/zDwfo2076l
— John Shafthauer (@hourlyterrier) September 24, 2018
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A journalism lesson for those who would publish ahistorical nonsense by partisan hacks: The Nazis were *not* socialists, write actual historians. https://t.co/qiUkKbUGWt
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 24, 2018
