Thats REALLY stretching it a bit, isn't it?
I don't think there is anything in any history lesson I ever took that suggested that the National Socialist party of prewar Germany was ever anything than racist, whereas the skinhead movement of the late 60s/early 70s, and again in the late 70s/early 80s were anything but racist.
There was certainly a racist element - same as there is any group of society - but to suggest that they somehow hid that racism behind a veneer of loving black music shows nothing more than a complete lack of knowledge of the skinhead scene.
Look more into the history, and there has always been a large left wing element to skinhead, even in its darkest days. 2-Tone was a profoundly anti-racist musical movement, SHARP were active from the mid 80s through to reasonably recently, and both AFA and its descendant Antifa have strong skinhead connections.
So... where have all the skinheads gone?
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