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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 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.
> 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👍4
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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.”
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👍2
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Debunking hoax quotes from Churchill.
Not a defense of Churchill but these quotes they throw out there are mostly fake.
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Not a defense of Churchill but these quotes they throw out there are mostly fake.
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During the Axis occupation of Greece in WW2, German and Italian troops plundered it of its food and resources, causing massive inflation and shortages, which led to many Greeks starving to death.
In response to this Goering said: "We can't be overly concerned with starving Greeks. That's a misfortune that'll befall many other people."
Total "pan-European" heroes eh? 🤡
In response to this Goering said: "We can't be overly concerned with starving Greeks. That's a misfortune that'll befall many other people."
Total "pan-European" heroes eh? 🤡
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Poland, Serbia and every other occupied country were forced to pay for the costs of Germany's occupation.
Like a vampire squid, the Third Reich occupied and pilfered much of Europe and squeezed them dry.
"By simply banning most currency exchanges, they succeeded in funneling money held by Serbian citizens to the banks, where it was booked in the new currency. In this way the experts could temporarily put the brakes on the circulation of money and keep the danger of inflation under control so that Serbia would be able to fulfill its obligations to the Reich"
"As in every other nation defeated by Germany, the General Government of occupied Poland was forced to pay what was euphemistically termed a “contribution for military protection"
"The amount was raised annually. In 1942, displeased with the revenues taken in the previous year, Schwerin von Krosigk retroactively increased the compulsory tribute from 150 to 500 million zlotys and set a target of 1.3 billion for the rest of the year. In 1943, the finance minister demanded 3 billion"
"the Wehrmacht also presented occupied Poland with a monthly bill of around 100 million zlotys for the services of 400,000 soldiers"
"The fivefold surplus was used “to cover soldiers’ needs for foodstuffs and other goods,” with the result that the local populace endured acute shortages of grain, potatoes, meat, and other necessities"
"Over the course of World War II, Germany mandated unprecedented contributions, along with compulsory loans and population-based “quotas,” on the defeated countries of Europe"
"These financial tributes soon exceeded the total peacetime budgets of the countries in question, usually by more than 100 percent and in the second half of the war by more than 200 percent. In January 1943, for example, the finance minister demanded that “two-thirds of the General Government’s budget be transferred to the Reich"
Source: Gotz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries
Like a vampire squid, the Third Reich occupied and pilfered much of Europe and squeezed them dry.
"By simply banning most currency exchanges, they succeeded in funneling money held by Serbian citizens to the banks, where it was booked in the new currency. In this way the experts could temporarily put the brakes on the circulation of money and keep the danger of inflation under control so that Serbia would be able to fulfill its obligations to the Reich"
"As in every other nation defeated by Germany, the General Government of occupied Poland was forced to pay what was euphemistically termed a “contribution for military protection"
"The amount was raised annually. In 1942, displeased with the revenues taken in the previous year, Schwerin von Krosigk retroactively increased the compulsory tribute from 150 to 500 million zlotys and set a target of 1.3 billion for the rest of the year. In 1943, the finance minister demanded 3 billion"
"the Wehrmacht also presented occupied Poland with a monthly bill of around 100 million zlotys for the services of 400,000 soldiers"
"The fivefold surplus was used “to cover soldiers’ needs for foodstuffs and other goods,” with the result that the local populace endured acute shortages of grain, potatoes, meat, and other necessities"
"Over the course of World War II, Germany mandated unprecedented contributions, along with compulsory loans and population-based “quotas,” on the defeated countries of Europe"
"These financial tributes soon exceeded the total peacetime budgets of the countries in question, usually by more than 100 percent and in the second half of the war by more than 200 percent. In January 1943, for example, the finance minister demanded that “two-thirds of the General Government’s budget be transferred to the Reich"
Source: Gotz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries
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Nazi Germany forced 80 billion in interest free war loans and other contributions on occupied countries like Denmark, Holland, France, Czechia, and Poland.
They planned to default on all these loans after victory.
"World War II, the German government exploited this established system to acquire billions in interest-free loans from creditor nations"
"Financial experts at the time described the transactions matter-of-factly as “coerced one-sided loans” to Germany’s advantage"
"According to a declaration by the Reich Credit Bank (Reichkreditkasse) on July 10, 1944, Germany had amassed almost 29 billion marks in debts to occupied, allied, friendly, and neutral states as of June 30 of that year"
"Of this amount, 14 billion marks were owed to France, Belgium, and Denmark alone"
"Holland, the General Government of Poland, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia had been forced to buy German war bonds worth almost 13 billion marks"
"Pohl discussed in greater detail at the meeting on July 10, 1944, the total contribution of goods and services from the occupied territories during the first four years of the war amounted to some 70 to 80 billion reichsmarks"
"they drew up a list of “substantial, still unfulfilled demands” that the Reich would present “to the occupied territories” upon the signing of peace treaties, for occupation costs Germany claimed to have paid in advance"
Source: Gotz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries
They planned to default on all these loans after victory.
"World War II, the German government exploited this established system to acquire billions in interest-free loans from creditor nations"
"Financial experts at the time described the transactions matter-of-factly as “coerced one-sided loans” to Germany’s advantage"
"According to a declaration by the Reich Credit Bank (Reichkreditkasse) on July 10, 1944, Germany had amassed almost 29 billion marks in debts to occupied, allied, friendly, and neutral states as of June 30 of that year"
"Of this amount, 14 billion marks were owed to France, Belgium, and Denmark alone"
"Holland, the General Government of Poland, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia had been forced to buy German war bonds worth almost 13 billion marks"
"Pohl discussed in greater detail at the meeting on July 10, 1944, the total contribution of goods and services from the occupied territories during the first four years of the war amounted to some 70 to 80 billion reichsmarks"
"they drew up a list of “substantial, still unfulfilled demands” that the Reich would present “to the occupied territories” upon the signing of peace treaties, for occupation costs Germany claimed to have paid in advance"
Source: Gotz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries
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Hitler justifies English rule of India on racial grounds, says same about Russia:
""Furthermore, it is proof that Germans do not understand the methods used by the British in their penetration and administration of the Indian Empire. England will only lose India if she falls prey to racial breakdown through her own administrative machine, something that is unlikely in India at this time, or if she is conquered by the sword of a powerful enemy. Indian rebels will certainly never successfully conquer her. We Germans know from experience how difficult it is to conquer England. Apart from this, I, as a member of the Germanic race, would prefer to see India under English rule than under the control of any other nation. It is impossible to successfully attack a powerful state that is firmly determined to risk its last drop of blood for the sake of its existence and especially foolish to launch such an attack with a coalition of cripples. As a nationalist who knows how to evaluate humanity based on its racial foundations, I cannot link the fate of my own nation with that of the so-called “Oppressed Nations”, which I can see are racially inferior. We must take the very same position today in regard to Russia. At the present time, Russia has been stripped of its Germanic ruling layer and therefore cannot be an ally in the struggle for an independent German nation."
""Furthermore, it is proof that Germans do not understand the methods used by the British in their penetration and administration of the Indian Empire. England will only lose India if she falls prey to racial breakdown through her own administrative machine, something that is unlikely in India at this time, or if she is conquered by the sword of a powerful enemy. Indian rebels will certainly never successfully conquer her. We Germans know from experience how difficult it is to conquer England. Apart from this, I, as a member of the Germanic race, would prefer to see India under English rule than under the control of any other nation. It is impossible to successfully attack a powerful state that is firmly determined to risk its last drop of blood for the sake of its existence and especially foolish to launch such an attack with a coalition of cripples. As a nationalist who knows how to evaluate humanity based on its racial foundations, I cannot link the fate of my own nation with that of the so-called “Oppressed Nations”, which I can see are racially inferior. We must take the very same position today in regard to Russia. At the present time, Russia has been stripped of its Germanic ruling layer and therefore cannot be an ally in the struggle for an independent German nation."
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Goebbels in his diaries says of the operation against the USSR:
"There will be no restoration of Czarism in Russia, but a true socialism will replace Jewish Bolshevism".
In other words, they were NOT going to get rid of socialism, but just install their own version of it with a German-controlled puppet socialist dictator.
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"There will be no restoration of Czarism in Russia, but a true socialism will replace Jewish Bolshevism".
In other words, they were NOT going to get rid of socialism, but just install their own version of it with a German-controlled puppet socialist dictator.
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Ironically enough, the first great ethnic replacement policy in Europe was attempted by Nazi Germany, who aimed to conquer parts of Poland, Ukraine and Russia in order to remove Slavs and move in Germans.
> “From the point of view of cultural policy, the German Reich is in a position to promote and direct national culture and science in many fields. It will be necessary that in some territories an uprooting and resettlement of various racial stocks [Voelkerschaften] will have to be effected.”
> "In his “Instructions for a Reich Commissar in the Baltic Countries and White Russia” (officially referred to together as the “Ostland”), Rosenberg directs that the Ostland be transformed into a part of the Greater German Reich by Germanizing racially possible elements, colonizing Germanic races, and banishing undesirable elements."
> “From the point of view of cultural policy, the German Reich is in a position to promote and direct national culture and science in many fields. It will be necessary that in some territories an uprooting and resettlement of various racial stocks [Voelkerschaften] will have to be effected.”
> "In his “Instructions for a Reich Commissar in the Baltic Countries and White Russia” (officially referred to together as the “Ostland”), Rosenberg directs that the Ostland be transformed into a part of the Greater German Reich by Germanizing racially possible elements, colonizing Germanic races, and banishing undesirable elements."
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Hitler prevented the Ukrainians from establishing their own State because the war aim was to colonize their land for German Lebensraum.
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HITLER ORDERED THE ANTI-POLISH CAMPAIGN TO BE RATCHETED UP TO ‘80 PER CENT VOLUME:
"On 11 August, Hitler had one of his private aeroplanes fly the high commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, to Salzburg. He received the Swiss diplomat and historian in the Adlershorst, a large teahouse above the Berghof, and with no further ado revealed that at ‘the slightest incident’ he would ‘destroy Poland without warning’. When Burckhardt objected that this would bring a ‘general war’, Hitler exclaimed: ‘Then so be it!’ If he had to wage war, the Führer added, then ‘better today than tomorrow’. At the end of the conversation, as the high commissioner recalled in his memoirs twenty years later, Hitler reiterated: ‘I am not bluffing. If anything at all happens in Danzig or happens to our minorities, I will strike a hard blow.’
~ Volker Ullrich, Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
HITLER ORDERED THE ANTI-POLISH CAMPAIGN TO BE RATCHETED UP TO ‘80 PER CENT VOLUME:
"On 11 August, Hitler had one of his private aeroplanes fly the high commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, to Salzburg. He received the Swiss diplomat and historian in the Adlershorst, a large teahouse above the Berghof, and with no further ado revealed that at ‘the slightest incident’ he would ‘destroy Poland without warning’. When Burckhardt objected that this would bring a ‘general war’, Hitler exclaimed: ‘Then so be it!’ If he had to wage war, the Führer added, then ‘better today than tomorrow’. At the end of the conversation, as the high commissioner recalled in his memoirs twenty years later, Hitler reiterated: ‘I am not bluffing. If anything at all happens in Danzig or happens to our minorities, I will strike a hard blow.’
[1] Again Hitler showed how good he was at fooling his conversation partners, since no matter how things developed in Danzig, he was determined to go to war against Poland in any case. The same day he received Burckhardt, he ordered the anti-Polish campaign to be ratcheted up to ‘80 per cent volume’, causing Goebbels to note, correctly: ‘It is coming down to the final sprint.’ [2] " ~ Volker Ullrich, Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
[1] Burckhardt, Meine Danziger Mission, pp. 341, 345. On the authenticity of Burckhardt’s account, see Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis, London, 2001, pp. 898-9n118.
[2] Goebbels, Tagebücher, part I, vol. 7, p. 64 (entry for 12 Aug. 1939)."Telegram
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Goebbels diaries undermine that fake Hitlerian propaganda of "genocide and ethnic cleansing of Germans" in Poland narrative.
All of Goebbels diary entries before the invasion make no mention of massacres of Germans and admit it was trumped up propaganda…
All of Goebbels diary entries before the invasion make no mention of massacres of Germans and admit it was trumped up propaganda…
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By 1939, the Third Reich 🇩🇪 amassed 37 billion Reichsmarks in national debt to finance rearmament. Georing and Goebbels both admitted finances were in "critical condition" and Hjalmar Schact resigned over the issue.
They knew they couldn't pay that down unless they conquered the East and despoiled all of its resources. And that's what they did.
In 1942 Deputy Finance Minister Reinhardt said "the contributions that have been allocated to paying off the interest and principal on the national debt must henceforth be covered by current revenues earned from economic exploitation of the Eastern territories".
Billions were plundered in this way. The Third Reich's "economic miracle" was ransacking foreign countries and shipping the loot back to Germany.
Source: Gotz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries
They knew they couldn't pay that down unless they conquered the East and despoiled all of its resources. And that's what they did.
In 1942 Deputy Finance Minister Reinhardt said "the contributions that have been allocated to paying off the interest and principal on the national debt must henceforth be covered by current revenues earned from economic exploitation of the Eastern territories".
Billions were plundered in this way. The Third Reich's "economic miracle" was ransacking foreign countries and shipping the loot back to Germany.
Source: Gotz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries
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Forwarded from Martinez Politics
During World War II many Ukrainian nationalists got duped into thinking the Germans would help them gain independence and fight the Soviets.
That didn't happen. They used them as cannon fodder, then quickly betrayed them, denied them independence, began colonizing Ukrainian towns and deporting them to replace them with German settlers, and then slandered the nationalists as "tools of Jewish Bolshevism".
Gauleiter of Ukraine Eric Koch said his job was too "squeeze every ton of grain and every slave labourer he could out of the region!"
The treachery here is unheard of!
That didn't happen. They used them as cannon fodder, then quickly betrayed them, denied them independence, began colonizing Ukrainian towns and deporting them to replace them with German settlers, and then slandered the nationalists as "tools of Jewish Bolshevism".
Gauleiter of Ukraine Eric Koch said his job was too "squeeze every ton of grain and every slave labourer he could out of the region!"
The treachery here is unheard of!
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