For the Record: Can you name one rightwing group persecuted by Hitler?

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1883, The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, via Wikipedia.

Yes, because Hitler was right wing who killed leftists and he can't name a single RW group the Nazis targeted. #TheBigLie

— 🃏The Joker 🃏🏴 (@ATrueJoker) October 5, 2017

Yes, I can! Hitler targeted the churches and imprisoned or killed innumerable Christians who resisted Nazism in the name of their faith https://t.co/SxzyEWz1Pz

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 6, 2017

I love that. "I can so!"

But can he? It's true that most of the 2,720 clergy imprisoned at Dachau (of 160,000 prisoners total, over 100,000 of them political prisoners) were Catholic priests, but I don't find any record of any of them being killed, while Nazis killed between 80,000 and 200,000 Freemasons and 2,500-5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses (because of their refusal to swear fealty to the Reich)...

Wait, you define Christianity as "a rightwing group"?

First violence was against Christian labor unions and Catholic Center Party https://t.co/uWCs0pHKYf pic.twitter.com/MQa12Udzyd

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) October 6, 2017

While Hitler negotiated with conservative Catholics von Papen and Pacelli, who pretended not to know what was happening to left Catholics pic.twitter.com/3auzG2YCtD

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) October 6, 2017

Tendency of conservative German Christians was to agree with Nazi policy, of course https://t.co/j09hIEEekT pic.twitter.com/FNTnlQXZRt

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) October 6, 2017

and it was nonconservative aspects of Christianity--rejection of racism and militarism--that the Nazis couldn't accept pic.twitter.com/6TnMoC0hk0

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) October 6, 2017

Don't forget two thirds of Protestants accepted the pro-Nazi "German Christian Movement" which was truly rightwing https://t.co/j09hIEEekT pic.twitter.com/b2Fv8iEuN7

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) October 6, 2017

And even Niemöller's "Confessing Church" favored mos of Nazi program pic.twitter.com/IAhGtkgr9D

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) October 6, 2017

Whereas persecution of leftists--Social Democrats (Sozis), Communists, trade unionists and independent intellectuals--was on a group basis.

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) October 6, 2017

Many brave and worthy Christians suffered and died in the Third Reich, but it wasn't for being rightwingers.