By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - In Germany during the 1920s and early ‘30s Hitler and his Nazis pursued a clever strategy on their road to power. Relying principally on their Storm Troopers (the “Brownshirts”), they promoted violence and disorder in society, especially by attacking Communists and Socialists, who often retaliated, thus expanding the disorder. Then the Nazis deplored this social disorder, the disorder they themselves had largely created, and they promised that they would put an end to it once they came to power. ...