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The Nazi Economic Mirage
Submitted by Erico Matias Tavares via Sinclar & Co.,
Many believe that Adolf Hitler’s centrally-planned economic policies produced an economic miracle in the 1930s, with Germany finally regaining its tempo and getting out of a terrible depression.
Conventional economic indicators confirm this view. However, they can also be misleading as to the true condition of the German economy and the sustainability of its finances. Moreover, the heavy burden placed on society, where millions of people suffered tragic losses and virtually everyone lost their freedoms, cannot be just regarded as a footnote. And these policies, or more precisely their failure, put Germany on a collision course with the rest of the world.
In 1930 Germany had a functioning democracy, world class scientists and engineers and impressive industrial capabilities. Still, prosperity levels were well below those of its US and UK counterparts, as the country never fully recovered from the socioeconomic turmoil that resulted from its defeat in World War I.
The global depression that soon followed only worsened the economic conditions of Germans, with unemployment reaching a staggering 30% of the population by 1933. In their desperation, they turned to a man with a grand vision and a plan, promising he would fulfill the great Germanic promise and usher in a new era of prosperity: Adolf Hitler. His siren song and radical policies set in motion a chain of events which eventually lead to a diametrically opposed outcome for his country.
From Failure to Savior
Hitler had been pretty much a failure most of his early life. While he valiantly served as a Private during World War I, often volunteering for the most dangerous jobs and even receiving two Iron Crosses as a result, he was never promoted because he could not interact well with his comrades, nor – if you can believe it – did he have the charisma to lead them into action.
In 1918 he was blinded by a gas attack and put of commission for weeks. When he recovered his entire world had changed: his country lost the war and everything he had fought for collapsed.
Hitler was quick to blame his misfortunes on others, particularly wild conspiracy theories about the undue influence of the Jews in world events, as he would later articulate in his book “Mein Kampf”. Disillusioned with the outcome of the war and prospects for the future, he settled in Munich and joined a radical workers party, along with other former soldiers. In charge of propaganda, he became a prolific public speaker, so much so that people began to think that the National Socialist German Workers’ Party – abbreviated to Nazi – was in fact his own party.
After being imposed hefty war reparations by the Allies, Germany’s woes got progressively worse, leading to a humiliating foreign occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, along with a devastating bout of hyperinflation. This was too much to bear and the Nazis decided to take violent political action, seeking to expand their influence in society.
After this strategy failed to deliver any tangible results, and most importantly put him in jail for a while, Hitler realized that he would have to resort to legal means to achieve power. He then split the party and headed the new faction, with the financial backing of several Bavarian industrialists and landlords.
Although progress was very slow at first, the Nazi party grew steadily. In May 1928 they had won less than 3% of the vote in the elections to the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament. They fared even worse in the presidential elections almost a year later, with their candidate getting barely 1% of the vote. But as Germany’s socioeconomic crisis deepened, all of the sudden their influence exploded. In the parliamentary election of July 1930, the Nazis scored 18% of the vote, doubling it within two years and becoming the largest party in the Reichstag. Hitler became Germany’s chancellor in January 1933 – at 39 years old, and absolute dictator by August 1934, marking the end of the Weimar Republic.
The Nazis had finally reached their goal—the establishment of the Third Reich, an authoritarian state in Germany under the control of the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.
An Economic Revival – Of Sorts
Having tightened their grip on politics, the Nazis promptly implemented their plan to reshape society and the economy with the following goals:
- Solve the unemployment problem – a key promise of Hitler
- Drag the German economy out of the recession and make the country self-sufficient (“autarky”)
- Promote the population growth of “true” Germans
- Get rid of Jewish socioeconomic influence
- Realign the economy with the Nazi’s expansionist objectives
Hitler launched several government programs and policies to reduce unemployment, with much fanfare to boot.
Massive public work schemes were announced. Over 2,500 miles of autobahn (highways) were built, linking major cities. Hospitals, houses, canals and so forth were also built across the country. All this work was done manually, shovel in hand, so that more workers were needed.
Trade unions were banned and all workers were forced to join the Nazi Labor Front. Working hours were thus increased and wages frozen. Workers were strongly encouraged to go along with this, as any dissenters were immediately accused of economic sabotage and sent to forced labor camps.
To counter any resentment for the loss of worker rights, the “Strength through Joy Movement” (KdF) was established specifically to make workers “happy”, providing them with a range of leisure opportunities. This of course included a healthy dosage of Nazi ideological indoctrination and thanking the Fuhrer for their good fortune. The KdF also introduced a plan that enabled workers to buy a car. The Volkswagen (the People's Car) was conceptualized so that most people could afford it. The Beetle, designed by Ferdinand Porsche, cost the equivalent of 35 weeks wages for the average worker, and he could pay for it on a weekly basis.
Women’s rights – which had flourished under the Weimar Republic, were significantly curtailed. Since they were no longer allowed to work, men took over their jobs and were the only ones allowed to make decisions in society. The Nazis had another role in mind for women, since they had always been particularly concerned with the decline in “true” German population numbers. Accordingly, there was a great deal of propaganda celebrating the image of the mother and the family unit. Prizes were given to women who would bear a large number of children.
Industry was also reorganized – around a very pressing Nazi concern: rearmament. Hitler had devolved great many powers to large private industrial interests, which were now headed by Nazi sympathizers and who stood to gain a great deal from weapons production. Entire factories were uprooted to parts of the country less exposed to French aggression. New railways were built in record time (but with dubious efficiency). The whole productive scheme was now rethought and planned in the context of war.
Of course the Treaty of Versailles had prohibited all of this, but Hitler went ahead regardless. From 1935 onwards, every man aged between 18 and 25 had to spend two years in the armed forces. While in 1933 there were 100,000 members in the armed forces, by 1939 this number would balloon to 1.4 million.
Rearmament created jobs of course, but also a lot of disturbances in established industrial practices and logistics. All the while, the Nazis attempted to reconcile these efforts with making Germany more self-reliant – which was clearly contradictory given the massive increase in demand for raw materials to support the construction new ships, tanks and airplanes. At first they searched for artificial ingredients to replace oil, rubber, textiles and coffee, to no avail. Then they struck a deal with the Soviets, exchanging raw materials for arms in the lead up to the war. By 1939 Germany was still importing 33% of its raw materials. Autarky turned out to be another grandiose Nazi policy ill-adjusted to the needs of the economy.
Unfortunately, not only factories were uprooted. The Jewish community, which had played a prominent role in German society for centuries, was promptly segregated and then progressively eliminated. Other minorities followed, with all their jobs and possessions reallocated.
Hitler’s vision for the German nation was finally becoming a reality. But he was far from done.
The Crucial Role of the Farming Sector
Many of the traditional Germanic themes were associated with the land. As such, this became a centerpiece of the Nazis’ ideology, further accentuated by the historical support of many landlords to their cause.
Some 9 million people worked in German farms by the time Hitler came to power. In comparison, the US had 10 million people employed in the sector (curiously many from German descent, particularly in the Midwest) with seven times as much arable land. This was emblematic of Germany’s meager productivity and incomes in the farming sector.
In 1933, Hitler implemented the State Hereditary Farm Law, where selected lands were declared hereditary, as an Erbhof, to pass from father to son, and could not be mortgaged or alienated. Any farm of 7 to 125 hectares, the size deemed to be adequate to maintain a family and act as a productive unit, could be declared Erbhof. All farms of over family size were also made secure in possession of their owner's family, with no possibility of alienation.
While farmers benefited from the elimination of debt and some aid from the government – such as fixating prices and production to promote that elusive autarky, their ability to finance crop expansions and purchases of new equipment was also reduced. The sector saw a continuous outflow of workers, who were now being employed in all the other government sponsored projects and the military.
As a result, agricultural productivity suffered and shortages of food developed across the country. In response, the Nazis implemented food rationing – which would remain in place until the end of the war. In 1937, annual consumption of wheat bread, meat, bacon, milk, eggs, fish, vegetables, sugar, fruit and beer had fallen to levels comparable to a decade earlier (only rye bread, cheese and potatoes had increased). Malnourishment was starting to become a real problem amongst German workers, in farms and factories across the country.
In typical fashion, rather than blaming his own policies, Hitler believed that this situation resulted from a lack of “space to live” for his people. All major European powers had access to vast territories in Africa and elsewhere. The US had a huge continent at its disposal. But not Germany, who had lost out in WWI and was now confined to its diminished borders.
If other countries could obtain large amounts of land by force, why couldn't Germany? After all, security was not the only reason to build a powerful army.
The Miracle Begins to Unravel
By the time the Olympic Games took place in Berlin in 1936, cracks were starting to appear in German society. This was not immediately obvious to large parts of the population (nor to foreign economists and commentators, for that matter), who for the most part were still seduced by the Fuhrer’s promises of a glorious pan-Germanic future.
Any dissent was violently crushed through party terrorism (via the infamous SS and Gestapo). The persecution of Jews was intensified. The regular police were circumvented by the party’s police; the regular avenues of justice were bypassed by the party’s courts; the regular prisons were eclipsed by the party's concentration camps. In short, a rational bureaucracy was replaced by a virulent irrational one.
Government controls and management of certain parts of the economy were creating huge distortions which in turn prompted even more intervention, invariably at the expense of some other society group. While the big industrial concerns were benefiting from these arrangements, small businesses and the middle classes were squeezed out of the market; as were most of the staples that ordinary people needed.
With taxation revenues curtailed by design, Hitler’s expansionary policies had to be financed with debt. But these funds were neither unlimited nor free, and Nazi leaders were starting to become very aware of this. There was some debate as to which economic policies should be adopted as a result, with some prominent figures recommending a more liberalized approach to the economy.
However, like any good central planner, Hitler decided to press ahead with his original policies with even more gusto. During a cabinet meeting in 1936, he and Hermann Göring, his aviation minister and trusted adviser, announced that the German rearmament program must be sped up. There was no turning back.
As a result, Göring was put in charge of the four year economic plan, creating a new organization to administer it. He subordinated the ministries of labor and agriculture and bypassed the economics ministry in his policy-making decisions, which meant that he had de facto control of the economy. Expenditures on rearmament were increased, in spite of growing budget deficits. In 1937, the Reichswerke Hermann Göring was established under state ownership with the aim of boosting steel production beyond the level which private enterprise could economically provide. This was command-and-control policies on steroids.
German Unemployed (in millions): Jan 33 – Jan 39
Source: historylearningsite.co.uk
As shown in the graph above, the reduction of unemployment was an unequivocal bright spot, but largely at the expense of women, Jews and other minorities, as well as over a million people serving in the military. The same formula was applied to other territories that were subsequently annexed, yielding similar results. For instance, unemployment also dropped in Austria after the Anschluss in 1938.
But the Nazis had a strategy to fund their grand vision and release the German people from the shackles of want: territorial expansion and plain robbery. And so the hostilities began with the invasion of Poland in 1939.
The War Years
The early months of the war went fairly smoothly for the German army, which overran large territories as the Allies were still gearing up for battle. However, as the war intensified, so did the chronic shortages back home. Farms lacked equipment and people, which were now being absorbed in ever expanding numbers by factories supplying the military, or by the military itself.
By early 1941, when the German army arguably had its strongest foothold across Europe, civilian consumption was already down 18% from 1938 levels. And it would continuing going down from there.
The labor force kept on shrinking, although now irreversibly. Impressive military victories soon turned into stalemates and finally into catastrophic losses across all three war fronts: East, West and South. The Nazis were left with little choices on how to replenish those losses and continue fighting. Accordingly, farmers were next to be enlisted, which was then extended to everyone once Germany was on the brink of defeat. To get a sense of the catastrophe resulting from Hitler’s stubbornness, a third of all boys born between 1915 and 1924 was either dead or missing by the end of the war.
But in addition to soldiers Germany needed to eat. As its farming population shrank, the Nazis came up with a devious plan to make up for it: enslave their neighbors and prisoners of war.
Every season there used to be a flow of workers coming across from Poland to work in German farms, given that higher wages were on offer. But after the German invasion in 1939, the Nazis brought back hundreds of thousands of Polish workers and POWs against their will. Then came the invasion of France, which provided a labor pool of over a million POWs. But even that paled in comparison to the number of workers brought in after the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, almost three million in total. When the Italians changed sides in 1943, the German army captured as many of them as they could to work in the fields. None of this was enough to sustain production as all these people died quickly due to appalling working conditions.
Such was the insanity of the Nazi war machine. By the end of the war nearly one in every four workers in Germany was a foreigner, in most cases unwillingly.
The Nazi Economic Mirage
Hitler’s policies are still viewed to this day as a great example of how unprecedented government intervention fixed a dire economic problem. In short, Hitler laid a golden egg and produced an economic miracle.
As early as 1933, even before any miracle could be seen, the New York Times had nothing but praise for his ambitions, according to the following front page headline:
“There is at least one official voice in Europe that expresses understanding of the methods and motives of President Roosevelt—the voice of Germany, as represented by Chancellor Adolf Hitler.”
For sure, some of Hitler’s policies made a lot of sense. Building up the country’s infrastructure, which was so vital to a modern industrial economy, proved to be a winning bet. German workers could now afford cars to drive in the new roads, as well as other modern conveniences. Economic activity and incomes responded accordingly. That Weimar Republic feeling of uncertainty and malaise finally subsided. And the dramatic increase in fertility rates during the Nazi years also provided a boost (after all, babies can promote consumption). So in a sense there was no mirage here, the growth was real.
Perhaps if the real economy had been allowed to flourish at that stage, Germany could have indeed produced a real economic miracle. If anything the most prosperous nations of the 20th century proved that the economic reigns and decision-making must eventually be decentralized in order for any gains to be sustained and expanded. Women also needed to play a role in the economy, much beyond just having babies.
Unfortunately for the people living under the Third Reich, this was never allowed to happen. All of these efforts became increasingly subordinated to the logic of war. As a result, the economy was stifled by top-down industrial policies and readjustments, price controls, misallocation of resources and so forth. Personal and commercial freedoms had to be restricted so that the prevailing Nazi ideology could never be challenged.
Rearmament thus became the most significant government expenditure. The resulting increase in GDP was significant. In fact Germany boasted the highest growth rates in Europe in the prewar years. But this can be misleading as any comparison could not be done on an apples-to-apples basis, since other major economies spent considerably more on consumption and productive activities. Just because Germans were producing more guns does not mean that they were better off.
The government went ever deeper into debt as a result of this policy. Of course any leader, no matter how incompetent, can create growth if enough money is thrown at the economy; the problem is that those debts will need to be repaid at some point.
During the war, Albert Speer, the minister of armaments and war production and a close friend to Hitler, also directed a miracle of his own: doubling Hitler’s production orders as Germany was under heavy Allied bombardments. No doubt his administrative genius played a role, but so did exploiting millions of slave laborers who were starved and worked to death in his factories. It was the same ideology at work all over again. And the war effort was significantly prolonged as a result.
Speer was arrested in 1945 and interrogated by a committee of US representatives, who wanted to learn more about the inner workings of the Third Reich. John Kenneth Galbraith, the famous Harvard economist and adviser to several US presidents later in his career, was also in attendance.
Here’s a transcript of the committee’s report after that meeting:
“The German people, [Speer] said, had worked hard and faithfully and had suffered greatly. They had won victory after two years and had been denied the fruits of the victory they deserved by the inadequacy of their leaders. That inadequacy he felt obliged to expose.
“The fall of the Third Reich Speer attributed to the moral decay of its rulers. This decay was well advanced before the outbreak of the war. Its most spectacular manifestation was soft, expensive living. In some instances it took the form of extreme corruption. Speer cites Göring as the most corrupt of his colleagues. Göring's acquisitive looting and hoarding was unmatched by the other party leaders. But nearly all of the party leaders, Berlin ministers and Gauleiters alike, showed a penchant for a rich, easy, well-nourished existence and variety in wine and women.”
Göring of course was the prime architect of Germany’s war economy after 1936. All of the sudden the Nazi elite was not looking so brilliant after all. Here’s what Galbraith would later say about the whole bunch in his book “The Age of Uncertainty”:
“Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspection and interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.”
Rather than being some central planning geniuses, Galbraith’s quote is a rather more accurate description of the Nazis. After over a decade under their leadership, Germany reversed its gains and prosperity all the way back to the late 19th century, with a large part of its population annihilated in the process. The country was then sectioned off to different Allied factions.
The mirage was finally over.
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"wild conspiracy theories about the undue influence of the Jews in world events"
Correction - true, if overstated statements regarding obviously disproportionate Jewish power which is *forbidden* as a topic of discussion because Jews are the Sacred and Eternal Victim.
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How about dropping the bullshit "you're an antisemite" mantra for speaking the truth and have a fucking adult discussion.
Counter-semitism is not anti-Semitism.
I don't think you'll gain much traction on this site. Keep trying for comedical hemorrhage.
Ministry - Faith Collapsinghttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EW9KS_ChrA
Funny... I don't recall seeing a single line about the European and American fascist bankers financing the entire rebuilding of a bankrupt Germany...
Brown Bros. Harriman and the Walker (Bush) family supplying the rubber, nickel, phosphate and other materials necessary for war until Pearl Harbor when they were shut down...
Dutch Royal family owned Shell Oil fueled the Nazis right up to the fall of Holland...
Rockefellers Standard Oil providing the fuel and tetraethyl lead necessary for the Luftwaffe to fly (made in the UK) and sent to Germany throughout the entire war...
Nor the investments of the Dutch and British Royal families in building the 100's of forced labor camps which later became the "death camps" known as Auswitch, Berkenau etc. etc...
Then there was the Ford and General Motors plants in Germany building trucks for the German army. Strange but they almost never got bombed by the British... except once.
General Motors even received a $33 million dollar settlement for bomb damage to one of their German plants from the US Government after the war.
"General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland," said Bradford Snell, who has spent two decades researching a history of the world's largest automaker. "Switzerland was just a repository of looted funds. GM was an integral part of the German war effort. The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland. They could not have done so without GM."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
(Washington Post)
Or perhaps I have just suffered a stroke of some kind...
ALL WARS ARE BANKER WARS
Yeah there are missing pieces to the story.
Did GM get paid for the Trucks, did the Royals get paid for the Fuel & Lead.
And I heard Switzerland Kept all Nazi loot, gold and money, but gave only $1 Million to the Red Cross.
But did Switzerland continue to transfer funds and keep Nazi Fund for funding Odessa, and Post War Nazi Activities and Escapes. Did Switzerland help set up Nazis and their families in South America or where ever they went to start over... maybe in the USA.
I heard one Nazi went to Palestine or nearby to train Arabs or others and participated in Odessa post Nazi Activities. I think he spent time in Spain too. He may have helped Stay Behind Armies in Europe.
And were Nazi funds in Switzerland used to fund Stay Behind Armies and Support Selected Fascists and Nazis who agreed to a Stay Behind Force to fight Invading Communists.
At least Adolf's "shovel ready projects" were tangible and made a difference.
Still waiting on the delivery of Obama's promises.
Hitler, although portrayed in the liberal corporate media for decades as the personification of evil, couldn't hold a candle to the folks in Washington. Hitler didn't have a WMD program, he never nuked any cities, he certainly didn't plot/execute an extermination program, yeah he was a bad guy but just ewait a little bit longer and you will see Obama emerge as the true manchurian candidate, and wanna be Fuehrer of the world.
"The War Years"
Let's give 3 cheers to Prescott Bush (real name Scherff), Brown Brothers, George Herbert Walker, Union Banking Corporation, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, Fritz Thyssen, IG Farben, John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil....and of course, Allen Dulles !!!!!
Long Live the 4th Reich! Their fists are up your ass right now!
Damn! There's those goddam unmarked black helicopters over my house again.....[sigh]
Hmm..weird article...
How about hitlers monetary system?
Wasnt that somehow involved in the success of germany buildup?
This article sounded like BIS would have written it themselfs, MIT engineered.
This is ZH, not MSM, please check your "American Exceptionalism" at the door when you log in.
"Neutrality" and its implications are actually foreign concepts to "'Murican Exceptionalists" (who often don't see beyond the confines of the juvenile debate about exceptionalism in their political parties' propaganda)
What you are implying is that Switzerland should not have been neutral but rather a declared ally/stooge of the USSA.
Separating facts from (mis)charcterizations (private vs state actions) is a "nice to have" in comparison to simply recognizing the biases and skewed perspectives that are created by being the beneficiary of Hegemon. But we will have plenty of time to explore the nuances of the other issue as at least a generation of 'Murican public is made to pay for the decades of atrocities of the 'Murican State (those John Kerry windsurfing ads from 2004 on YouTube may come in useful for re-edumacation purposes).
+1 Thank you Zerohead for this comment. Bank of England Montagu Norman transferred 23 tons of gold from BoE and BIS to Hilter just prior to WWII, gold appropriated from the Czechs. Schacht himself was quoted the BIS was "his" bank.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2013/...
Worlds industrialists supported Germany's recovery primarily as a block to prevent Soviet Russia moving west, and as a message revolution by the masses would not be tolerated by the elite. Prince Phillip of Edinburgh was quoted often that they supported Hitler because "the revolution in Russia they bloddy killed half my family" - aka Romanovs. I think I read Russia recently confirmed via DNA of that link. Oh yes...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_the_Romanov_family
You are most welcome. It was a little wordy and the wrong place to post in most instances but a glaring error of omission was present. You are correct about Germany being the counterforce to keep U.S.S.R in check. In truth they owned both until Hitler got some fresh ideas and went on his own.
And don't even get me started on the BIS... also you should read Schact's later written account in the 1960's about how the bankers took control of the German Central Bank directly after WWI and shorted the mark in immense quantities for their own personal gain. They saw the weakness and that is what started the hyperinflation and made buying german assets extremely cheap for the foreign bankers who started the war.
So I repeat.... ALL WARS ARE BANKERS WARS
There's a lot more to the story of the Czech gold than you cover in this quick allusion. Winston Churchill fought hard to prevent this most egregious example of pre-war appeasement where the government of Britain sought peace at virtually any price.
Today, we see the same factors in action. A Great War is obviously coming, yet most people will sell out ANYBODY and EVERYBODY in order to prevent it from coming to their house personally. Eventually we will have to fight without many allies that are now or soon will be sold down the river to avoid the ultimate showdown.
Women’s rights – which had flourished under the Weimar Republic, were significantly curtailed.
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So, you're saying he got at least one thing right?
Good old Adolph, guy gets a bum rap
oh, he was a cunt.
but so were the brits and so were the bolsheviks.
So Clinton didn't invent the art of economic bullshit then huh?
The author of this article overlooks one of Hitler's big pre-war economic tools: mandatory unpaid (except for barracks and board) public labor service for (IIRC) one year for all 18-year olds.
That's a lot of what is essentially slave labor. Once the war started, the young men were sent to war, and concentration camp prisoners supplied the slave labor.
The author also overlooks the creation of the Reichsmark: Hitler's decoupling the national currency from usury spurred economic revitalization.
Of course it also led to International Jewry declaring War on Hitler in the NY Times in 1933. Parasites don't like disruptions in their blood funnels.
Workers were strongly encouraged to go along with this, as any dissenters were immediately accused of economic sabotage and sent to forced labor camps.
Dude trashed me in the first third of the essay.
Here come the Armchair Generals and Hiltler Apologists like flies to a warm soft turd.
Sumptin' tells me the trolls be here to vote up every single last nihilistic comment and trash the civil thoughts to defame the site in toto
Ah, the mysterious ways of the Propagandistas
B-b-but it's true.
I saw it on You-Tube.
So all of the pro-Nazi comments on this thread and all of the pro-Nazi upvotes are trolls. Riiiiight.
mirage
what is it
an optical effect that is sometimes seen at sea, in the desert, or over a hot pavement, that may have the appearance of a pool of water or a mirror in which distant objects are seen inverted, and that is caused by the bending or reflection of rays of light by a layer of heated air of varying density
something illusory and unattainable like a mirage
miracull was real
Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Hitler-Antony-Sutton/dp/0945001533/ref...
mirage no
fantasy yes
The Holohoax Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvnEwlv8LRY
Hitler, financed by the Zionists, Bolshevicks, financed by the Zionists....should I keep going?
Here’s what Galbraith would have said about the whole bunch in charge now in America, if he were rewriting his book “The Age of Uncertainty” to cover the Obama years and earlier:
You forgot the womanizing by Bill Clinton
But what would you call the endless parade of Obama's homosexual lovers?
Manizing?
"Moreover, the heavy burden placed on society, where millions of people suffered tragic losses and virtually everyone lost their freedoms,"
OH OK!
http://www.ihr.org/other/economyhitler2011.html
http://www.tomatobubble.com/id384.html
http://zioncrimefactory.com/patriotard-lies-about-hitler/
They just pull digital teeth to run the tanks now. No one has gold teeth anymore
I guess you haven't been to the ghetto much lately, hmmm?
the party/ideology specifics matter not; it's power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. universally, you can't start shootin'/hangin'/beheadin' these scum soon enough. let's get goin'!
Welll ask yourself this question: Do you prefer the Tribe's American economy, or one like this? Just thinking about since China bought a US pork firm and is over here millions of pigs in USA have gotten the Chinese pork flu and the same story with our poultry farms millions of turkeys and chickens have come down with the Chinese bird flu...
The Good Society
Sounds great on paper.
But then there's this little gem FTFA:
Aka anecdotal. Propaganda has that effect.
I hope you forgot your /sarc tag.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
It's a full circle from IG Farben to Operation Paperclip...
Related in Japan scientist given immunity for war activities in Chembio Weapons in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
2 Activities
2.1 Vivisection
2.2 Germ warfare attacks
2.3 Frostbite testing
2.4 Rape, syphilis and forced pregnancy
2.5 Weapons testing
2.6 Other experiments
3 Biological warfare
4 Known unit members
5 Divisions
6 Facilities
6.1 Tokyo
6.2 Guangzhou
6.3 Related units
7 Surrender and immunity
7.1 Destruction of evidence
7.2 American grant of immunity
7.3 Separate Soviet trials
8 After World War II
8.1 Official silence under Occupation
Hitler and Obama have a lot in common.
They always blame sombody else for the bad outcomes of their policies. Hitler blamed Jews. Obama blames the white Jews.
"The Wages of Destruction" is a recent book detailing the entire economic history of the Third Reich. Much of Germany's pre-war economic problems were pappered over by their National Socialist system, but even before the war began, the cracks were showing a coming collapse. The war itself was an economic gamble, Hitler and his gang really did believe that Germany had no choice but to destroy Poland and capture european Russia. The economic plans for German Russia were to use natives as slaves until they could be killed of or deported. The ultimate plan was for German colonization of European Russia, especially the Ukraine breadbasket and the Donbass industrial heartland. Germany lost the war because it did not have the economic power to compete with the allies. By sheer will and bravery, the German military fought the last two years of the war. In fact, by early 1943 they had suffered total defeat, all that was left was to play out the destruction of Germany. Germany had no chance to even hold territory, let alone win. The Red Army alone had destroyed the German Army, and by early 1943, German troops in the East were fighting for their lives, no victory was possible, on a slow defeat.
Socialism never works, be it Nazi or Communist. And today's American crony capitalism central bank socialism will fail too, very soon!
In the End it is about Winning and having a strong Nation that is Successful. Mission, Objectives, Strategies, Goals.
But you have to look at Ethos, Principals, Values, and Adding Value to the Nation in many ways.
I hate to say it, but we also balance the Strong Warriors, Strong Industry Leaders... with Teachers, Peace Loving People, raising children to be able to love & work in the Community & celebrate life, milestones, Logic, Success, & Strength.
Universities ought to Strengthen the Country, the People, and the Future.
Germany did what it had to do mostly as a beaten nation, with heavy debt, poor exchange rate, harsh reparation terms, and inflation with lack of Investment Funding.
Sounds like Germany did some smart things to reinvent funding of Industry Expansion and paying Investors smaller Dividends.
Today NEOCONS question the 'softness' of Americans, and their Ethos is that conducting 'dirty wars' with rendition, torture, foreign prisons, drone strikes, collateral deaths of women and kids in villages and wedding parties... is okay. And they do everything in a secretive way, control the media & history, and refuse to count civilians injured, killed, become refugees, raped or killed fleeing the war, etc.
So if we look at Nazis & World War II Japanese Empire & Look at US Ethos... we can all do better. But the Voice of Doing better in the Next Iraq War or the Next 2008 Financial Crisis... ARE JUST LOST.
There is no Voice for Improving the Banking System or US War Conduct.
Compare Today's German Socialism with others in Europe or the USA. It might be that Germany is better, but the whole cold war with Russia and NATO war with Russia thing is very thin. Plus you can't buy big things in Germany since VA Tax is like 30-34%. And don't think they Hunt, Guns are locked up at Clubs or Armorys, and you have to Kill your fish as soon as you land them.
If you are a US Country type Citizen you won't like living in Germany or Europe. Maybe Scandinavia has deer hunting. Maybe you can find hunting in Gaucho Country in South America (but they sent some Gitmo Prisoners there).
Seems like border laws, banking laws, and gun laws intend to keep Americans in America. Of course 13 years of US Wars, War on Terror, makes USA unpopular and maybe unwanted.
German National Socialism? I'd have to read more. I don't think I'd like it, but think Wall Street and DC have borrowed from them for ZIO Plan.
Interesting how Socialism is working pertty darn good in Norway, Sweden, Swetzerland, Holland, Denmark and so on. High taxes, high control, a lot of social programs. Best places to live in, voted decades after decades. But you guys keep on bleating how Socialsim doesn't work. I guess propaganda never stops.
Yea it works really well, if you don;t mind your girlfreind getting raped now and then...
https://muslimrapewave.wordpress.com
There are dozens of sites and blogs like this, explaining how "happy" they are in tribe-controled northern europa
Socialism funds itself off of taxes on any voluntary action in the market.
so perhaps socialism works best in countries that have a culture that evolved in the arts of trading and producing.
Most of those countries made business when the rest of the world made war.
The host in these countries is strong.
Plus, at least for some of them the money is distributed back to the local municipalities,.
"Interesting how Socialism is working pertty darn good in Norway, Sweden, Swetzerland, Holland, Denmark and so on."
Socialism keeps working until they run out of money. Like when the North Sea oil stops flowing, oil drops in price, or when the welfare system collapes after hordes of muzzie immigrants take over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnu5uW9No8g
My understanding is that Germany gets important funds from USA while keeping it's country's Integrity, Dignity, Unionization, Triparty System, and complete independence and sovereignty. I'd say US Recruited Germans, Fascists from Italy & Spain, and forgave the Nazis & German War Reparations with only a few getting hung or life in Prison.
Contrast that with US Trade Treaties where USA gives Technology away and even Uranium industry to foreigners. And consider that Trade Agreements allow foreigners to buy or start a business and import all their employees. Seems like there are few things foreigners can't invest in or buy of US Technology & Property Rights. Foreigners Invest more each year than our own Banks or Domestic Private Investment.
Now as I understand the USA Funds the biggest part of the UN, NATO, and probably WB and or IMF (Maybe last year was different?). So USA Pays leasing fees for bases in Germany and many other places. But also USA is required to Employ Germans and Even Train them for Skills needed. We have to Justify hiring extra US Employees if Germans can be Hired to Do the Same Job for the US Military.
Hm... it is like the USA hired the Negotiators from the Big 3 Auto Makers, who negotiated with US Unions, to negotiate our US Trade Agreements.
But we didn't start the last two World Wars. We just decided to be the New Superpower, a different kind of Military Power than Colonialism, but very Expensive and very well Trained with the Best Weapons. Expensive Weapons. And we needed the Best Scientists and Engineers from Germany and Japan.
Why are US Borders wide open and we have no Cultural Boundaries, no protection from Capitalist Invaders, or Chinese Invaders. Why is multiculturalism & Globalism NO LONGER DEBATED when we never got our NAFTA JOBS and NAFTA proved to damage the National Security of the USA.
Really Europe is being Ruined too, but it comes down to Catastrophic Changes to Culture, Business Culture, and Collapse of values. Polarization of groups of people within a country or region leads to Terrorism and Social Strife like Demands for Sharria Law. And Demands for Fiat Expansion to pay for Free University Education and More Social Programs from Cradle to Grave.
Today most Germans are peace Loving people that see NATO as next to Useless.
Most Europeans don't want NATO or War with Russian, not even a Cold War.
But Europeans and Germans at least know to ask for better Trade Deals, limits on Capital moving outside their country for cheaper labor rates, they want a partnership with Government & Industry & Workers to ensure the National Security in terms of Strong Middle Class, Good Jobs Skills, Plenty of High Tech Skills and High Tech Industry, affordable Education and University and Technical Training, Affordable Heath Care, and some support for people that lose jobs or don't have jobs. They want Security & Dignity.
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Why don't US Citizens Demand Dignity and Security for the Middle Class and Integrity for our Culture and Identity. But not only do we lose our Dignity and Culture to Multiculturalism... we lose Property Rights, Technology, Port Security, Border Security, a Sense of Peace when there is no war in CONUS, and no sense of Security of Jobs, Industry, Education, Skills, and a Future.
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Why did the USA give up a sense of Future, where Germany has not. Why do Greedy Capitalist Win big Deals and the Common people Lose their Future, sense of a secure Future in a time of Peace for Christ's Sake!!
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HELLSTORM
The Biggest Cover-Up In History
This documentary tells the tale that the victors still do not want you to know.
Winston Churchill told Lord Robert Boothby:
Hellstorm - Exposing The Real Genocide of Nazi Germany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCOKNCwHmQ (1:30:20)
Published on May 1, 2015
This documentary tells the tale that the victors still do not want you to know. Learn the terrible truth about the rape, torture, slavery, and mass murder inflicted upon the German people by the Allied victors of World Word II. This is the biggest cover-up in world history.
Greg Johnson:
So then the parallels must be ominous?
http://www.peikoff.com/lr/home.htm
I mentioned Mr. Peikoff's work in my post up above.
Brilliant, brilliant man.
Every college student in America should be required to pass a test on his book prior to graduation.
The modern day Nazis hate him, of course, as seen by the downvote you got for recommending such a seminal, excellent book that lays bare their love of continental totalitarianism. Modern day Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Progressives, Communists, Greens, you name it-- they all hate "The Ominous Parallels". Which just goes to show how alike they actually are.
Not an easy read and it doesn't come in comic book form, which is probably why they dislike it so much. Requires major intellectual effort to grasp what he's saying. But the destination is totally worth the journey.
Yes, I am familiar with Peikoff's writings. He has only published 3 books. This one being his first. OPAR is his best book though as it integrates the context of all history/knowledge (including the history yet to occur) whereas this one (Ominous Parallels) is focussed on one era of history. Philosophically, both are of the same feather of course.
OPAR is a much easier read and logical enough that a 10 year old can understand it. Read the epilogue first regarding the perennial duel between Aristotle and Plato. Then go back and browse whatever else is of interest.
I'll check it out.
Another recommendation:
The John Harvard Library's edition of "Pamphlets of the American Revolution, Volume I" Not sure if they ever published the rest of the series but the introductory notes and the footnoted pamphlets are priceless knowledge. Because many of these early ones were comments on the various paper money versus specie disputes at the time, they are especially trenchant today.
ever wondered, why there is no such thing as a "weimar republic" UFO conspiracy? Or jet engines from Weimar?
Why never a moon base from Weimar?
My 2 cents:
Before the nazis took over, universities and science were all occupied by cronies. Just like today, they didn't like the competition of the underlings. Suppressed knowledge, un-suppressed by Adolfs cohorts. I'm sure there's some political incorrectness to be found.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku3PtwvK-nk
We will take you down systematically. Beware......
Must Watch: Banking with Hitler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veQfroRUWdM
It's like old home week.
If he had died in 1938, Hitler would be regarded as the greatest German leader ever.
He was Time Magazine's man of the year in '38.
History is written by the victors.
Quite a few large roads were constructed by the Nazis but then the Romans had done well earlier. The British built a lot of Railways in India. Every State is Theft.
What is it that comes over people...? I notice the same thing on Yayhoo news - it seems that periodically (at least once every month or two), an author comes on with a piece about the 'Nazis' or the Howl-O-caust. It's incessant. If one didn't know otherwise, one could make an argument that Hitler and the Nazi movement have to be trotted out at periodic intervals as some sort of reminder (?) Or is there something else...?
What I have always found rather odd, is that one rarely if ever sees an article about the Bolshevik revolution, the Cheka police (Cue the S.S.), or Stalinism. Likewise, one would be hard pressed to find any media mention about what happened in China during the 'Great Leap Forward'. Sometimes we are treated to an expose on Pol Pot and 'S21', but even that little slice of recent history is rarely seen. So what gives here...? Are Hitler and the Nazis simply the 'Uber Alles' of history's sordid record of man's inhumanity to man that nothing else registers or is worthy of mention...?
It is an imbalance of relative moral terror. Some are Evil but not as Evil as others. It is a constant non-narrative of Imperial ambition and the endless pretence of the creation of a never-existing Justice.
the british empire was a million times more evil anything Hiltler might have done........
see my post below...
The point in analyzing the fascist economic and political system of the Third Reich is in its parallels to the developing fascism of today. It is not a matter of which regime in history was the most evil, but rather of which evil economic and political system resembles that of our very own USSA.
without a doubt, the fucking british empire most resembles the ussa.......
Today is the day Nazi Germany surrendered: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/may-7-1945-nazi-germany-sur...
The rest of your post is spot on.
It must be the symbols and pageantry that the Nazis had a knack for, plus the long leather coats and boots, skulls on the hats, all that hollywood/road warrior sort of crap.
Well Antisemitism is on the rise along with Neo-Nazis all over Europe. So what are you gonna do?
But yeah MSM is shallow and terrible for developing a people's logic, education, and sense of history. Well MSM covers up history as they follow talking points from the govt. So we can't really expect anything from MSM.
- Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. Who were they? Many of them were university schooled and intelligentsia.
But Leaders in the USA think learning about History, Political Movements, Philosophy, Political Economy might lead to Democracy (can't have that).
"So what gives here?".
Well, its this....
The generation that has surrendered so much of its freedom to their central government is the one that won the war. If you really think about it, the last thing the Canadian and American governments did right was win WWII. Ok, the moon landings were EXCELLENT but that's it. The war ended in 1945, 70 years ago, and the only thing these two goverments have managemed to do in that ensuing time is FUCK EVERYTHING UP THEY TOUCHED. WWII was the very last time any fed government did anything right so they have to keep trotting that out. It s all they've got!
That's my thinking. WWII has to be brought up every now and then because that's is the last thing the gov got right.....the fact that it was previous goverments' bad decisions that lead to WWII is a topic for another day.
Squid.
In the Jewish owned media, we are fed, from once a week to once a month CONTINUALLY over the years, TV shows, 'documentries' and movies about the 'plight of the Jew'
They will remind us forever.
Who speaks for or remembers the thousands of Poles killed? The Communist party members living in Germany, The gays, etc
Not to mention the millions of Russians killed fighting Germany
I guess when the population is either gassed to death, enslaved, or doing the killing unemployment is low.
It's 'cause they dressed awesome
All this needed to be funded, and here is how Hitler did it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills
Sounds familiar?
And it all was over 70 years to the day today......
And of course the very first comment is pro-Nazi. Here come the right-wing populists...
I still re-read Albert Speer's excellent book every year or two. "Inside the Third Reich"
Other good reads regarding Nazi Germany:
"The Kings Depart" by Richard M Watt-- about the end of WWI, Versailles and the German Revolution of 1919. Without a grasp of this time period, the attraction of Germany for Hitler really cannot be understood.
"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" By American journalist William L Shirer, who witnessed the ascent of the Nazis.
"The Last Battle" Cornelius Ryan's excellent capstone work that followed the more well-known "The Longest Day" and "A Bridge Too Far". All about the end of the Reich, planning for the postwar world, and the Allied/Soviet race to Berlin. The race between the "Rag Tag Circus" 83rd Infantry and the "Hell on Wheels" 2nd Armored Division is a classic. Zhukov's anger at Heinrici's guns on the Seelow Heights. The Morgenthau plan for permanently de-industrializing Germany (Operation Eclipse). Hidden Communists who could only walk freely in Berlin during the air raids. Soviet troops packing up light bulbs to take home to their villages.
"The Last 100 Days" by John Toland. I like his "But Not In Shame" about the start of the Pacific War even better, but he does his usual excellent job. His "1918" is also highly recommended.
To grasp the philosophical implications of nazism, nothing surpasses "The Ominous Parallels". The best philosophy book ever written and one that, taken in tandem with "The Kings Depart", makes the 20th Century and its bastard stepchild, the 21st, easily understandable.
Don't forget Wheels of Terror; Sven Hassel; the authentic voice of History
For fiction, "The Cross of Iron" Book excellent. Movie, major disappointment.
they forgot to teach us about this in High School.........gee, I wonder why....
''The Bengal Famine of 1943-44 must rank as the greatest disaster in the subcontinent in the 20th century. Nearly 4 million Indians died because of an artificial famine created by the British government, and yet it gets little more than a passing mention in Indian history books.
What is remarkable about the scale of the disaster is its time span. World War II was at its peak and the Germans were rampaging across Europe, targeting Jews, Slavs and the Roma for extermination. It took Adolf Hitler and his Nazi cohorts 12 years to round up and murder 6 million Jews, but their Teutonic cousins, the British, managed to kill almost 4 million Indians in just over a year, with Prime Minister Winston Churchill cheering from the sidelines.
Australian biochemist Dr Gideon Polya has called the Bengal Famine a “manmade holocaust” because Churchill’s policies were directly responsible for the disaster. Bengal had a bountiful harvest in 1942, but the British started diverting vast quantities of food grain from India to Britain, contributing to a massive food shortage in the areas comprising present-day West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Bangladesh.''
http://www.tehelka.com/remembering-indias-forgotten-holocaust/
Im starting to believe that the jew holocaust never really happened they way we were TAUGHT in high scool.......
30,000,000 dead; British India 1890-91
1870-1910 rather
though it doesn't matter which year if your fucking dead.
Ive seen reports of up to 85 million but I was just trying to relate my post to WW2 germany
The Blood Never Dried
''The "People's History" series has a well-deserved reputation, even if it is not a coordinated undertaking by any particular publisher. This book does not diminish that reputation. "The Blood Never Dried" is a people's history of the British Empire, and as such is an overdue critical, systematic examination of the litany of crimes, murders, and exploitations of all parts of the world undertaken under the banner of the Union Jack. At the risk of repeating other reviewers, the book examines in order: (1) Jamaica and slavery, (2) the Irish famine, (3) the Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion (though not the Boxers), (4) the Sepoy Rebellion, (5) the colonization of Egypt, (6) WWI, (7) the settling and revolt of interwar Palestine, (8) Indian independence, (9) the Suez Crisis, (10) the Mau-Mau Rebellion, (11) the suppression of the revolt in Malaya, and (12) Britains relationship with American imperialism''
http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-Never-Dried-Peoples/dp/1905192126
HOLOCAUST needs a wider historical interpretation
The essential read is; Late Victorian Holocausts; El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World....Mike Davis
Please, we all know that 6 Million precious Kikes were not killed, period. The Brits starving Indians, maybe, I really have't studied the subject, but they were certainly capable after what they did to the Boers. The Brits also delighted to starve German civilians prior to the NS takover, that is.
While I am not a great fan of Ike as a field commander, he was a first rate strategic thinker and proconsul. One of the things Eisenhower insisted upon at the close of the war in Europe was that everyone, regardless of rank and so far as humanly possible, be required to visit one of the recently liberated concentration camps to see for themselves.
He was adamant that the crimes committed there were so monstrous as to virtually defy the imagination and would simply not be believed by those who had not personally viewed the horrors. The Patton Papers relate the case of a German Mayor and his wife who were forced to view one of the camps and then went home and committed suicide.
Now that the actual eyewitnesses are fading into history, their grandchildren are stepping forward to ridicule the truths that these men personally witnessed on the direct orders of the Supreme Allied Commander. Ike was a smart man to insist upon this, but history wipes all slates clean over a long enough period of time. The net result is that millions of eyewitnesses are now being called delusional liars by their descendants. We are indeed doomed to repeat the horrors, and many times over.
"ridicule the truths that these men personally witnessed..."
What truths? Human lampshades? Shrunken heads? Human soap? Homicidal gas chambers? The "truths" you are talking about were wartime propaganda. It has gone on long enough.
http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/libcamps.shtml
http://www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/fndWeber.html
Churchill-didnt he agree to destroy Dresden, with US help, in exchange for some favor from Hilter? 25,000 civilians died needlessly, but then I am forgetting Hiroshima and Nagasaki-cities used to test the A Bomb , just for fun! Literally. But the history books are scrubbed clean of this
And Dresden was a city more of the arts than any sort of Military target, despite the crap we are told
This is all too much sour grapes. It is "disingenuous" to slam Hitler for his programs and disparage their tremendously positive effect on Germany, while at the same time ignoring the abysmal failure of FDR's and the ruthless brutality of Stalin's economic programs.
Hitler's economic revival was not fake nor forged. It was real. And there is no reason that theses economic measures could not be implemented again in this or other countries, without the fascist ideologies that make nearly everyone so uncomfortable.
http://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/ru/nodes/1-fond-500
first they kill christ for getting rid of thier filthy money laundering asses then later down the road they take out the first MAN in over a thousand and a quarter years to do the same unscrew your heads and pour out the shit its been filled with for over 2000 years ....being a brain battered dolt is why we're in this mess now that there is some light being shown (finally) about the allied jew run mafia no one seems to want to admit they've been had LMFAO wah wah keep crying idiots your blind faith in your schools and lying gubermint is what got you here drop the blinders and throw off the chains.
Funny how the only man in recent history is used as the greatest evil ever to walk the planet for 70 years is mentioned atleast once in every tv show (if not by name then by a "nazi" type refference) as posted somewhere above go watch or read Hellstorm do some research (if you're not to damn lazy) theres a reason the hollywood and mainstream media use Hitler on a daily basis They were scared then and they're still scared today. "One day my spirit will rise from the ashes and the world will know I was right" Adolph Hitler tata morons
They crucified a good man for pointing out the obvious; Abraham was a sociopath. That's the reason for the statement "The truth will set you free." No need to hate anyone or any religous group. After all, if there's six billion people, then there's six billion religions. Rearrange the Ten Commandments to start with "don't lie, don't steal and don't murder." If folks can't do that, the other seven surely don't matter.
They crucified a good man for pointing out the obvious; Abraham was a sociopath. That's the reason for the statement "The truth will set you free." No need to hate anyone or any religous group. After all, if there's six billion people, then there's six billion religions. Rearrange the Ten Commandments to start with "don't lie, don't steal and don't murder." If folks can't do that, the other seven surely don't matter.
"Conventional economic indicators confirm this view."
Ha, 70 + years later and the Liberals, Kikes and Fools just can't accept the reality of the National Socialist ecnomic miracle. Just keep telling yourselves it was all a fraud and failure, you'll feel so much better. Private, central, Rothschild bankers are so much more successful.
How was the National Socialist economic miracle looking in 1945? Oh I forgot 'theys just picking on poor good guy Adolf'. They had to destroy him because he was out to solemnly destroy the zionist banksters for the betterment of mankind...meanwhile the biggest banksters in BIS were helping the nazis. In the end how do you reconcile all the bullshit?
This story sounds familiar...oh, yeah!! This is the same crap being put out for public consumption by our very own government! They really shouldn't be selling, 'cuz I sure as hell ain't buying. Fucking fascists!
For those who find this bilge compelling go here for David Ikes explanation of why the moon is fake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMNGToGAEg
Tyler, I am really disappointed that you posted this piece.
It is riddled with factual errors and biased interpretations of German history between the wars. It was obviously written by someone who either does not have a sound grasp of German history, or who has an agenda to cast Hitler and the German people during this period in a more negative light than is truthful.
logged back just to upvote your comment ...since being "white" and being proud is a f****ng crime these days I can say I am PROUD to be a criminal... remember anti-racist is code for anti-white...incase you haven't figured it out I'm of Germanic descent and sick of the 70 plus years of Germaniphobia.... be afraid be very very afraid and know we are not extinct multi-culturism and multi-racism have not done it's "job" for if it had trash articles like this and all the other media stained daily bashing of the German peoples would cease to exist.... incase you dunderheads haven't noticed we (Germans) are the most targeted race on earth....do this little experiment note every time you hear a negative refference to anything German (aka Hitler Germans NAZIs et al) I've pointed this out to many people (even Germanic descendants) who never realize the daily negative connotations. seriously take a mental note while listening to radio watching tv or reading the news not a day goes by the we (Germans) are not targeted. Pay attention to how you are constantly being brainwashed not only against Germans it goes deeper pay attention!!!!!!
Well Done!!
"or who has an agenda to cast Hitler and the German people during this period in a more negative light than is truthful."
You mean you can cast Hitler in a more positive light?
Geography has been unkind to the Germans. From Europe's western fringe, the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English sailed out to conquer vast empires. On the other side, Russia expanded eastward, from the Urals to the Pacific in about fifty years.
Meanwhile, the Germans were stuck in the middle of Europe, plundered and depopulated by armies of religious fanatics from every direction. By the time the Germans recovered, the entire world had been conquered by other European peoples. Germans twice attempted to increase their meagre share of the Earth's surface but failed, losing land each time. The window of opportunity, when colonizers had fast-firing guns and natives didn't, had closed.
Germans finally gave up, stopped having children, and renounced imperialism, as the fox scorned the grapes he couldn't quite reach.
German East Africa
Where do people come up with these ideas?
Germany had colonies all over the world prior to WWI.
German East Africa-- modern Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi
German South-West Africa-- now Namibia
Parts of Togo
Most of Cameroon
Part of Samoa
The Bismarck Archipelago north of New Guinea
The Carolines and Marianas except for Guam in the central Pacific
A treaty port in China -- Tsingtao. (The reason why beer comes from here today is that one of the first things the Germans did was to erect a brewery.
All captured during the war, except for German East Africa-- where a German contingent led by Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck held out right up to the final surrender and led the British and Portuguese a merry chase.
All surrendered to the various Allies outright or held under the guise of League of Nations mandates in 1919.
Don't forget that Germany had the worlds largest merchant marine prior to WWI but it was all taken away by the Versaille treaty.
Another excellent book
The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWIhttp://www.amazon.com/Wolf-German-Raider-Terrorized-Allies-ebook/dp/B003...
Haven't read that one, I'll put it on the list. I am slightly familiar with the Wolf and the Mowe, but more informed of voyages of the SMS Emden and the full-sail SMS Seeadler under Count Felix von Luckner. The hunt for the hidden SMS Konigsberg is also an interesting sidelight of Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign in East Africa.
Some of the German surface raiders of WWII took their names from these WWI vessels. There is even a movie about the most successful one of all-- the Atlantis. I forget the name of it, however.
Of course the Allied Q-ships were an interesting breed as well, and some of the stories of small boat escapes from Singapore and the Philippines to Australia make for very interesting readng. "South from Corregidor" is one among many. "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" tells the story of one escape attempt that failed (also made into a movie).
Yes, the merchant marine was all surrendered at Versailles, but no, it was not the world's largest.
Germany suffered a lot at Versailles but it should not be forgotten what they did to the beaten Russians with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk-- so they had no reason to complain. Live by the sword and die by the sword.
I weas going to change that first sentence to something less confrontational, since I recognize that you are correct in your larger point about Germany being late to the colonization game due to its fractured condition prior to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Too late after a reply, but my apologies for being impolite.
Mere table scraps of the British and French Empires, and useless in wartime without control of the high seas. Continents are full of natural barriers that make conquest difficult, but the oceans are a wide-open battle-space where winner takes all.
"Rearmament thus became the most significant government expenditure. The resulting increase in GDP was significant. In fact Germany boasted the highest growth rates in Europe in the prewar years. But this can be misleading as any comparison could not be done on an apples-to-apples basis, since other major economies spent considerably more on consumption and productive activities. Just because Germans were producing more guns does not mean that they were better off."
Hitler’s enemies claim today that full employment was only achieved by rearmament.
That is absolutely untrue!
Armaments began to play a big economic role for the first time in 1939, as England and France forced war upon us.
Here are the figures:
German Defence Industry Income from 1933 to 1939:
1933/34 RM 1.9 billion = 4% of the National Income
1934/35 RM 1.9 billion = 4% of the National Income
1935/36 RM 4 billion = 7% of the National Income
1936/37 RM 5.8 billion = 9% of the National Income
1937/38 RM 8.2 billion = 11% of the National Income
1938/39 RM 18.4 billion = 22% of the National Income
Life in the Third Reich
Fredrick Kurreck
Justice4Germans
This is so true, and it is about time someone highlighted it.
Hitler and the Nazis had just about depleted the German economy by 1939--there was no "miracle," but only theft of the future.
War was a away to steal, but also a way to blame, the war on the coming economic conditions, and therefore stave off a depression and possibly the guillotines.
Never works out, unless you are a banksters.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Check out the book, "Wages of Destruction" by Tooze for background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wages-Destruction-Breaking-Economy/dp/0143113208
Let's not forget that book "Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State." Reads too much like today's America. Sad. There's nothing new under the sun. Sometimes The Dragon Wins.
There are history books about this. One thing I found interesting is where the Nazis got money from. The gist I got was that they were always immersed in finding and looting new sources of money. I wonder whether all empires do that.
"I wonder whether all empires do that."
It is ALWAYS about money, power, and division. Always.
That is because all governments, now, and in the past, are nothing but criminal syndicates of theft and violence. All of their utterances are lies and cover for that foundational fact. Which is why all governments are always so keen to control thought and speech; Theft is their game, lying is their cover, and violence is their defense.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Lies. The whole twentieth century was about fooling the sheeple while secretly funding atrocities which the other hand railed against. Well. I guess that is the twenty first century as well...
In 1937-38 people in Germany were already fed up with the regime and if there had been elections then then Hitler would have been voted away. But is was already too late. The criminal bunch (with high incidences of alcoholism and heroine and other substance abuse) already had such a stronge hold on every aspect of German society that it was too late.
But the Nazis never would have been able to build such a war machine without confiscating the possessions of the people they already before the war put in concentration camps and without outside investment. Wallstreet invested in nazi Germany as did foreign industry. That business connection with nazi Germany needs to highlighted more. Many political, royal and business leaders had pre-war sympathies for the nazis.
Read it from the beginning to end and then see if the short synopsis of misinformation of this article still fits your paradigm.
http://www.exulanten.com/hysteria.html
not one word about WHO financed all of this. Do you need to ask?
I started listing out the inaccuracies in this article but there were so many I just gave up.
Regardless of his economic policy, Hitler was a first class idiot at best. Knowing the US was desperate to go to war with Germany, the very thing that caused Germany to lose WWI, and after allowing the British army to escape at Dunkirk, he sent 75% of his army to attack Russia in the spring of 1941, leaving Germany sparsely defended. The US then declared war and the allies relentlessly carpet bombed the German cities, killing millions of civilians, and resulting in Germany's defeat at home and in the east. Even if he had been successful in Russia, Germany was largely destroyed.
As far as Hitler's economic miracle is concerned, I think that was because he eliminated the central bank. I believe he was actually financed by the Anglo banks, including Brown Bros. Harriman. We never really got to the bottom of that. I wonder why.
He practically had to invade Russia because his entire overarching vision and plan was fucked from the outset.
"particularly wild conspiracy theories about the undue influence of the Jews in world events"
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"particularly wild conspiracy theories about the undue influence of the Jews in world events"
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