Goebbels makes no mention of the alleged Soviet plans to invade Germany in his propaganda briefing on June 23, 1941; on the contrary, he states unequivocally that the Soviets were unprepared and unarmed.

"Pre-emption" was a German PR lie to justify what was always a premeditated invasion of Russia for resources and Lebensraum.

In a 1939 speech, Hitler once again says that his aim is the elimination of economic classes as well as social and economic "equality".

"What they hate is the Germany which sets a dangerous example for them, this social Germany. It is the Germany of a social labor legislation which they already hated before the World War and which they still hate today. It is the Germany of social welfare, of social equality, of the elimination of class differences—this is what they hate! They hate this Germany which in the course of seven years has labored to afford its Volksgenossen a decent life. They hate this Germany which has eliminated unemployment, which, in spite of all their wealth, they have not been able to eliminate. This Germany which grants its laborers decent housing—this is what they hate because they have a feeling their own peoples could be “infected” thereby. They hate this Germany of social legislation, this Germany which celebrates the first of May as the day of honest labor. They hate this Germany which has taken up this struggle for improved living conditions. This Germany they hate! They hate this Germany, this ethnically healthy (volksgesund) Germany, where children are washed and are not full of lice, and which does not allow conditions to take hold, such as their own press now freely admits to. It is their big money men, their Jewish and non-Jewish international banking barons, who hate us because they see in Germany a bad example potentially rousing other peoples, especially their own people.”

So Hitler lays out the case that he is implementing an egalitarian socialist system in Germany and believes that he is hated for pursuing his social justice war against bankers and businessmen. He touts May Day aka labor day, dear to the hearts of all socialists and communists. This is one of the clearest examples of Hitler's crypto-Marxism.

The idea that England went to war with Hitler to stop the example of social welfarism is pants-on-fire retarded. Shortly after WW2, England's socialist labor party came to power and nationalized much of big industry and implemented a social welfare state.

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When the Nazis occupied Ukraine 🇺🇦 in 1941, they didn't abolish Stalin's collective farms, but continued running them with German commissars.

Even the newly established "private" farms under German ownership were "obliged to deliver to the authorities fixed quantities of grain". If state quotas were not met, there were harsh penalties.

This doesn't sound any different to the Soviet system.

Here are some of the specific Nazi disinformation tactics and fabricated events used to justify Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939:

🏴 False-Flag Operation: The Gleiwitz Incident
What happened: On the night of August 31, 1939, SS operatives disguised as Polish soldiers attacked a German radio station in Gleiwitz (now Gliwice, Poland).

They broadcast a brief anti-German message in Polish and left behind corpses in Polish uniforms — prisoners taken from concentration camps, murdered to make the attack look real.

Purpose: Create the illusion of Polish aggression so Hitler could justify invading Poland as "self-defense."

Revealed: After the war, SS officer Alfred Naujocks, who participated in the operation, confessed to it during interrogation.

📰 Fabricated Atrocities and Anti-German Violence
Nazi newspapers like Völkischer Beobachter and state radio ran doctored stories of alleged atrocities committed by Poles against ethnic Germans in border towns and villages.

Claims included:

Germans being mutilated or raped.

German children being beaten or burned.

Whole villages of ethnic Germans being massacred.

Reality: These stories were mostly completely invented, and any isolated violence often occurred after the invasion began — not before.

📊 Inflated and Fake Statistics
Nazi officials claimed 58,000 ethnic Germans were killed in Poland prior to the invasion.

This number was used to stir anger and fear in the German population.

Modern historians find no documentation or physical evidence to support this number. Post-war investigations, including those by the Allies and Polish sources, found no such mass killings.

🎬 Staged Photos and Films
The Nazis also staged photos and newsreels showing alleged destruction of German homes or abuse of civilians by Poles.

These were circulated widely in German cinemas and newspapers to whip up support for war.

🗣 Hitler’s Speech to the Reichstag (Sept 1, 1939)
In his infamous speech on the day of the invasion, Hitler claimed:

“This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory. Since 5:45 a.m., we’ve been returning the fire.”

He portrayed Germany as the victim, when in fact the invasion was pre-planned and unprovoked, part of Hitler’s larger vision for Lebensraum (living space) in the East.

🧠 Why These Tactics Worked (Temporarily)
Germany had tightly controlled media and used propaganda masterfully.

The fake reports were effective in justifying aggression, dehumanizing Poles, and suppressing dissent at home.

The DAF (German Labour Front) collected 275 million Reichsmarks in deposits from workers who wanted a VolksWagen car that the regime promised to produce at a price of 990 RM.

"Not a single Volkswagen was ever delivered to a civilian customer in the Third Reich.... [In 1939] Porsche's half-finished factory was turned over to military production"

So the regime just stole the money and made weapons with it.

The Nazis did not want to replace or alter the collective farms of the Soviets.

> In agriculture the immediate demands of the war economy did not initially necessitate a radical re-thinking of German long-range plans: both pointed towards maximum production and collection. In other branches of economy, the conflict between short-term and ultimate goals was more striking. For the needs of the moment, it was imperative to resort to ‘ maximum exploitation of the relatively limited means of production ’ — even in industry — rather than let them wither for political reasons. It was not necessary, however, to restore all branches of Soviet industry, trade, and mining. ‘It would be utterly erroneous to maintain that we must uniformly pursue the line that all enterprises in the occupied territories are speedily to be put in order and restored. . . . The use of industry may be resumed only in branches where there are shortages.’
The urge for all-out, immediate exploitation led to the utilization of resources and facilities with a minimum of organizational and administrative change. It was simplest to postpone such problems as reprivatization and decentralization, and to avoid issues of organizational revamping — unless they bore directly on productive capacity. Thus it was, above all, the economic-minded among the German planners who urged that after the seizure of the East the status quo be maintained as the line of least resistance and effort. Even before the invasion they prevailed upon Rosenberg to order all economic enterprises in the East to carry on after the German occupation just as they had under Soviet rule. The Soviet price scale was to be retained, as was most of the administrative machinery on the local level. And so, more crucially, was the entire agrarian system of state and collective farms: any change was expected to entail a breakdown, or at least a serious disruption of agricultural production. Promptly, a second argument appeared favouring the maintenance of the status quo in agriculture: the state farm and collective farm system permitted more efficient control and collection of produce than would a galaxy of individual households to be created on the ruins of the Soviet system. Hence the directives of May 1941 declared bluntly

The premise for [maximum] production and the seizure [Erfassung] of surpluses is the maintenance of large enterprises (collective farms and state farms). . . . A splitting into several million peasant economies would make the exertion of German influence on production utopian. Every effort to dissolve the large [agrarian] units must therefore be fought tooth and nail.

The economic staffs willed that the collective farms must serve the Germans as they had the Soviet regime. The aspirations of the Soviet peasantry were of no consequence.
Source: German Rule In Russia 1941-1945 A Study Of Occupation Policies, Alexander Dallin

behalf of the troops: “To put it bluntly: What can I take with me from the East? Treasures of art? They don’t exist. All that’s left is food to stuff your mouth. Nothing better can happen to it than that it be given to a soldier’s family here at home.” Around the same time, Hitler remarked that a soldier on home leave “should be considered the ideal and simplest means of transport and should be given as much food as he can physically carry.”
The chief of the Wehrmacht High Command, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, quickly translated these statements into a personal decree of the Führer’s. The edict read: “Food, intoxicants, and tobacco brought back from occupied territories to the Reich by members of the Wehrmacht on home leave or official business, insofar as they are carried by hand, are to be made immediately exempt from all forms of control and confiscation.” In early August 1942, at a high-level meeting devoted to the topic of food supplies, Göring returned to the issue. According to the minutes of the meeting, Göring interjected: “Is the finance minister in attendance?” The deputy minister replied: “Yes, sir! Reinhardt here!” Göring then continued: “Mr. Reinhardt, desist with your customs checks. I’m no longer interested in them. . . . I’d rather have unlimited amounts of goods smuggled in than have custom duties paid on nothing at all.”
At the same meeting, Göring issued even more drastic statements. Angered by occupation authorities who were trying to stabilize France’s currency to facilitate its long-term exploitation, Göring thundered:
“It has been said that we need to restrict soldiers’ access to their pay, or it will cause inflation in France. But inflation is what I want to see more than anything else. . . . The franc should be worth nothing more than a sheet of a certain type of paper used for a specific purpose. That will hit France exactly the way we want to hit France.”

Source: Hitler's Beneficiaries, Götz Aly

Debunking hoax quotes from Churchill.

Not a defense of Churchill but these quotes they throw out there are mostly fake.

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By 1943, the Nazi regime began taxing business profits up to 98%.

They effectively nationalized most companies by taking all their profits to finance the war in the East.