Beefsteak Nazi

Beefsteak Nazi was a term used in 1930s Germany to describe members of the Nazi Party who were perceived as having communist or socialist sympathies — “brown on the outside, red on the inside.” Quotes The so-called ‘beefsteak Nazis’ were brown on the outside but red within. Robert Gellately, Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis (2012). The term ‘beefsteak Nazi’ was used derisively for former Communists who joined the Nazi movement. Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power (2005). Stormtroopers who had once been associated with the Left were sometimes mocked as ‘beefsteaks.’ Peter Longerich, Goebbels: A Biography (2015). External links Category:Nazism