Found another suicidal quote from Hitler where he again said that if Germans fail they must disappear.
‘If the German people has lost its faith,’ Hitler told Himmler over a private luncheon on 27 January, ‘if the German people was no longer inclined to give itself body and soul in order to survive–then the German people would have nothing to do but disappear.’
— Brendan Sims, Hitler: Only The World Was Enough
(Quoted in Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939–1945: Citizens and Soldiers (London, 2015), p. 227.)
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‘If the German people has lost its faith,’ Hitler told Himmler over a private luncheon on 27 January, ‘if the German people was no longer inclined to give itself body and soul in order to survive–then the German people would have nothing to do but disappear.’
— Brendan Sims, Hitler: Only The World Was Enough
(Quoted in Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939–1945: Citizens and Soldiers (London, 2015), p. 227.)
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Hitler makes it clear that his movement and ideology recruits almost exclusively among the 'broad masses' aka the lower classes. It's a workers/labor movement that frowns upon wealth, prestige, inheritance, etc. Not at all different from Lenin's creed.
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Nazis shook down private businesses with forced loans to fund their war machine.
> "One tactic used to retaliate against privately-operated companies was to force businessmen to make loans to the Nazi government. In his 1937 book, The House That Hitler Built, Stephen Roberts claimed that "compulsory loans" were routinely extracted from banks and insurance companies... Most of the mandatory loans to the Nazis were never paid back to the private creditors and companies; the loans were simply a government ploy to extort and shakedown businessmen for cash"
Source: Killing History
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> "One tactic used to retaliate against privately-operated companies was to force businessmen to make loans to the Nazi government. In his 1937 book, The House That Hitler Built, Stephen Roberts claimed that "compulsory loans" were routinely extracted from banks and insurance companies... Most of the mandatory loans to the Nazis were never paid back to the private creditors and companies; the loans were simply a government ploy to extort and shakedown businessmen for cash"
Source: Killing History
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NS economics is an endless spending spree, endless forced extortion on the private sector to fund all its lavish programs and war machine.
> "From the very beginning, the Third Reich's economy was put under a wartime economy binge, running low on raw materials, monetary reserves, and options, yet continuing to spend money with abandon. As food supplies dwindled due to price controls and regulations, Germany had to import products like milk and butter from other nations. In fact, Nazi Germany often had difficulties reimbursing its military contractors, taking up to "well over a year" to pay them."
Source: Killing History
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> "From the very beginning, the Third Reich's economy was put under a wartime economy binge, running low on raw materials, monetary reserves, and options, yet continuing to spend money with abandon. As food supplies dwindled due to price controls and regulations, Germany had to import products like milk and butter from other nations. In fact, Nazi Germany often had difficulties reimbursing its military contractors, taking up to "well over a year" to pay them."
Source: Killing History
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Richard Overy described the NS system as a "command economy, governed by military priorities, but run by a coalition of state officials, soldiers, and party hacks". It was an economy "dominated by political interests, not unlike the system that had already been built up in the Soviet Union."
Source: Killing History
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Food shortages in the Third Reich brought on by the excessive controls and central planning.
> "the Nazi administration pursued more centralization of its domestic and foreign economy and international trade continued to slow, which resulted in serious food shortages and rationing of key consumer goods like produce, butter, and many “consumables.” Even gasoline and fuel needed to operate cars were rationed, preventing many German citizens from owning or driving vehicles. As for shortages, one American magazine reported in 1937 that Germany was having the "most serious food shortage since the war."
> "By 1936, Germany's reckless spending, foreign-exchange controls, and anti-free trade policies had reached a crisis point. This precipitated a shortage of foreign currency and reduced imports of raw materials to the point where manufacturers had in-house supplies "sufficient for only two months." This self-induced economic crisis presented Germany with the choice between either producing guns or butter."
Source: Killing History
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> "the Nazi administration pursued more centralization of its domestic and foreign economy and international trade continued to slow, which resulted in serious food shortages and rationing of key consumer goods like produce, butter, and many “consumables.” Even gasoline and fuel needed to operate cars were rationed, preventing many German citizens from owning or driving vehicles. As for shortages, one American magazine reported in 1937 that Germany was having the "most serious food shortage since the war."
> "By 1936, Germany's reckless spending, foreign-exchange controls, and anti-free trade policies had reached a crisis point. This precipitated a shortage of foreign currency and reduced imports of raw materials to the point where manufacturers had in-house supplies "sufficient for only two months." This self-induced economic crisis presented Germany with the choice between either producing guns or butter."
Source: Killing History
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By 1938 economic problems crop up leading to Hitler's decision to plunder the assets of private companies and foreign countries.
> "Many historians argued that by 1938-39, Germany's economy was approaching a financial meltdown that tottered on the edge of financial ruin, which could have persuaded Hitler to veer towards war in order to plunder foreign lands and to nationalize Jewish property along with the property of other disfavored minorities.
Military spending in 1936 had exceeded 10% of gross national product (GNP), which was higher than any other European country, causing the crowding out of private investment for consumer products."
> "However, just as Lenin's economy sputtered and then collapsed in 1921, by 1936, Nazi Germany's socialist economy was struggling with a number of economic maladies, some asserting that its economy was finally teetering on the verge of bankruptcy by 1938."
Source: Killing History
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> "Many historians argued that by 1938-39, Germany's economy was approaching a financial meltdown that tottered on the edge of financial ruin, which could have persuaded Hitler to veer towards war in order to plunder foreign lands and to nationalize Jewish property along with the property of other disfavored minorities.
Military spending in 1936 had exceeded 10% of gross national product (GNP), which was higher than any other European country, causing the crowding out of private investment for consumer products."
> "However, just as Lenin's economy sputtered and then collapsed in 1921, by 1936, Nazi Germany's socialist economy was struggling with a number of economic maladies, some asserting that its economy was finally teetering on the verge of bankruptcy by 1938."
Source: Killing History
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They didn't care about the spiraling debt because they intended all along to engage in foreign plunder.
IN THE MEANTIME, GROSS REICH DEBT HAD SPIRALLED ALMOST OUT OF CONTROL. But neither Hitler nor his economic managers considered this very important. For deficit financing was only a short-term measure in their view; THE DEBTS WOULD BE PAID BY TERRITORIAL EXPANSION IN THE NEAR ENOUGH FUTURE. And besides rapid rearmament, Hitler was busily taking other steps to ensure that this would not only be possible but would also, as he saw it, bring the maximum economic benefit."
— The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans
IN THE MEANTIME, GROSS REICH DEBT HAD SPIRALLED ALMOST OUT OF CONTROL. But neither Hitler nor his economic managers considered this very important. For deficit financing was only a short-term measure in their view; THE DEBTS WOULD BE PAID BY TERRITORIAL EXPANSION IN THE NEAR ENOUGH FUTURE. And besides rapid rearmament, Hitler was busily taking other steps to ensure that this would not only be possible but would also, as he saw it, bring the maximum economic benefit."
— The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans
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> "Besides stiff taxes imposed upon redistribution income, German workers had to pay for "compulsory contributions contributions to sickness, unemployment and disability insurance, and German Labor Front (union) dues." Not only that, but workers were "required to contribute to various Nazi charities," and could be fired if the donations were too small. One estimate of what the average worker paid for taxes and forced contributions by the mid-1930s was 15 to 35 percent of his or her gross wage."
Source: Killing History
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The nazis sought to hide the inflationary side effects of their high spending fiscal policy with price stops. They also fudged the numbers on unemployment to suit propaganda needs.
> "Other economic policies included the self-sufficiency policies of "autarky" which levied high tariffs on agricultural goods and other imports, central planning and the nationalization of key industries, which included banking, steel production, shipbuilding, transportation, education, and more. The results were mixed. Unemployment was enormously reduced through government stimulation policies and fudging on the official numbers-failing to count Jews, opponents, refugees, women who got marriage allowances, and other minorities, while upping the amount of jobs by counting those in labor-service camps, army recruits, and Nazi party apparatchiks. According to Dan P. Silverman in Hitler's Economy, "Unemployment was reduced in Germany from 34 percent or about 6 million people, in January 1933, to 14 percent, or 2.5 million people, in January 1936." This is a good drop in joblessness, but nothing close to what some have argued was full employment. Additionally, real wages had declined by approximately 25% between 1933 and 1938."
> "A host of economic side effects surfaced. After suspending what remain of the gold standard, Nazi Germany pressured its central bank to keep interest rates low and government budget deficits high, causing the economy to overheat and triggering higher prices. By November 1936, the Nazi regime issued a price stop decree that prohibited increases in prices and wages. Despite the fact that more waves of inflation continued to occur, prices were still kept artificially low."
Source: Killing History
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> "Other economic policies included the self-sufficiency policies of "autarky" which levied high tariffs on agricultural goods and other imports, central planning and the nationalization of key industries, which included banking, steel production, shipbuilding, transportation, education, and more. The results were mixed. Unemployment was enormously reduced through government stimulation policies and fudging on the official numbers-failing to count Jews, opponents, refugees, women who got marriage allowances, and other minorities, while upping the amount of jobs by counting those in labor-service camps, army recruits, and Nazi party apparatchiks. According to Dan P. Silverman in Hitler's Economy, "Unemployment was reduced in Germany from 34 percent or about 6 million people, in January 1933, to 14 percent, or 2.5 million people, in January 1936." This is a good drop in joblessness, but nothing close to what some have argued was full employment. Additionally, real wages had declined by approximately 25% between 1933 and 1938."
> "A host of economic side effects surfaced. After suspending what remain of the gold standard, Nazi Germany pressured its central bank to keep interest rates low and government budget deficits high, causing the economy to overheat and triggering higher prices. By November 1936, the Nazi regime issued a price stop decree that prohibited increases in prices and wages. Despite the fact that more waves of inflation continued to occur, prices were still kept artificially low."
Source: Killing History
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Ten years of tax paid in advance in a single lump sum. Taxes on gross turnover not net profit.
> "Additionally, “the Nazis also introduced a progressive income tax that shifted a far greater tax burden onto corporations and the very rich," a policy that has been extremely popular among left-wing social liberals and progressive policy wonks.[438] Taxes were so high and complex that there were cases where taxes were based on the gross amount, not on the net profit. One such case was a Berlin hotel owner and wine wholesaler, Lorenz Adlon, who paid "taxes equivalent to 40 percent not of his firm's profits but of its annual turnover of 5.7 million Reichsmarks."[439] One levied tax required German property owners "to pay ten years of the tax in advance in a single lump sum."
Source: Killing History
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> "Additionally, “the Nazis also introduced a progressive income tax that shifted a far greater tax burden onto corporations and the very rich," a policy that has been extremely popular among left-wing social liberals and progressive policy wonks.[438] Taxes were so high and complex that there were cases where taxes were based on the gross amount, not on the net profit. One such case was a Berlin hotel owner and wine wholesaler, Lorenz Adlon, who paid "taxes equivalent to 40 percent not of his firm's profits but of its annual turnover of 5.7 million Reichsmarks."[439] One levied tax required German property owners "to pay ten years of the tax in advance in a single lump sum."
Source: Killing History
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Businessmen grouped the NSDAP with the Reds and Social Democrats as radical socialist revolutionaries looking to abolish most market principles.
> "Even before the seizure of power there had been worries among industrialists that if the National Socialists were to come to power radical economic measures would ensue, leading to a restriction of entrepreneurial freedom. What worried them most was the degree of radicalism in the socio-revolutionary demands raised by the NSDAP. ‘In socio-economic matters’, Henry Turner shows in his study on the relationship between the industrialists and the National Socialists, ‘the NSDAP frequently advocated positions which were practically impossible to separate from those of the extreme Left’. "
> "On economic issues – for example on tax laws – the National Socialists in the Reichstag often voted with the Communists and the Social Democrats. For many industrialists this ‘tendency to take up a position next to the Left on socio-economic questions’ made the NSDAP appear as a danger. The assessment of the National Socialists which predominated in industrialist circles found its expression, for example, in a series of guidelines which Paul Reusch, the founder of the influential Ruhrlade, issued in 1929 for the newspapers under the control of his company. In these guidelines the NSDAP appeared together with the Communists, the Social Democrats and the unions as one of the moving forces of Marxism, of its destructive ‘class war concept’ and of its ‘utopian Marxist objectives in the economic sector’. In an analysis which appeared in the periodical of the employers’ association on the eve of the Reichstag elections of 1930, the NSDAP was criticized for its ‘aggressive hostility towards business’ and the warning was given that National Socialism belonged to the conspiratorial, demagogic and terrorist elements of contemporary socialism."
> "Even before the seizure of power there had been worries among industrialists that if the National Socialists were to come to power radical economic measures would ensue, leading to a restriction of entrepreneurial freedom. What worried them most was the degree of radicalism in the socio-revolutionary demands raised by the NSDAP. ‘In socio-economic matters’, Henry Turner shows in his study on the relationship between the industrialists and the National Socialists, ‘the NSDAP frequently advocated positions which were practically impossible to separate from those of the extreme Left’. "
> "On economic issues – for example on tax laws – the National Socialists in the Reichstag often voted with the Communists and the Social Democrats. For many industrialists this ‘tendency to take up a position next to the Left on socio-economic questions’ made the NSDAP appear as a danger. The assessment of the National Socialists which predominated in industrialist circles found its expression, for example, in a series of guidelines which Paul Reusch, the founder of the influential Ruhrlade, issued in 1929 for the newspapers under the control of his company. In these guidelines the NSDAP appeared together with the Communists, the Social Democrats and the unions as one of the moving forces of Marxism, of its destructive ‘class war concept’ and of its ‘utopian Marxist objectives in the economic sector’. In an analysis which appeared in the periodical of the employers’ association on the eve of the Reichstag elections of 1930, the NSDAP was criticized for its ‘aggressive hostility towards business’ and the warning was given that National Socialism belonged to the conspiratorial, demagogic and terrorist elements of contemporary socialism."
Source: Rainer Zitelmann, Hitler's National Socialism
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Hitler makes it clear he has little use for private property unless it serves the state's goals.
> "[The idea of personal wealth] solely the private affair of the individual requires to be corrected all the more in the National Socialist state... without contribution to the community no individual would have been able to enjoy such an advantage."
> "we have still set limits on ownership... we have set limits on profits of arms, 6 per cent, and of these 6 percent, the first 50 perfect are taxed away, and the remaining 3 per cent must be reinvested in some way, or else it too will be taxed away. Anything which exceeds that must be put into a capital deposit and is at the disposal of the Reich, of the state."
Source: Rainer Zitelmann, Hitler's National Socialism
This is the same thing as expropriation without calling it such on paper. Profits capped and then taxed away or forced to be invested in what the state wants it invested in (in this case rearmament industries).
The state gets to take home most of the profit so Hitler and Goering can carry on their lavish lifestyles at taxpayer's expense.
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> "[The idea of personal wealth] solely the private affair of the individual requires to be corrected all the more in the National Socialist state... without contribution to the community no individual would have been able to enjoy such an advantage."
> "we have still set limits on ownership... we have set limits on profits of arms, 6 per cent, and of these 6 percent, the first 50 perfect are taxed away, and the remaining 3 per cent must be reinvested in some way, or else it too will be taxed away. Anything which exceeds that must be put into a capital deposit and is at the disposal of the Reich, of the state."
Source: Rainer Zitelmann, Hitler's National Socialism
This is the same thing as expropriation without calling it such on paper. Profits capped and then taxed away or forced to be invested in what the state wants it invested in (in this case rearmament industries).
The state gets to take home most of the profit so Hitler and Goering can carry on their lavish lifestyles at taxpayer's expense.
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Historian Adam Tooze argues that Nazi Germany "imposed greater economic controls than any other non-communist regime in modern history."
Aka they were communists pretending not to be.
Source: Killing History
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Aka they were communists pretending not to be.
Source: Killing History
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Historian Gotz Aly describes Hitler's welfare state:
> "implemented a variety of interventionist economic policies, including price and rent controls, exorbitant corporate taxes, frequent "polemics against landlords," subsidies to German farmers as protection "against the vagaries of weather and the world market," and harsh taxes on capital gains, which Hitler himself denounced as 'effortless income'"
Source: Killing History
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> "implemented a variety of interventionist economic policies, including price and rent controls, exorbitant corporate taxes, frequent "polemics against landlords," subsidies to German farmers as protection "against the vagaries of weather and the world market," and harsh taxes on capital gains, which Hitler himself denounced as 'effortless income'"
Source: Killing History
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1936 Hitler calls for foreign conquest to gain new sources of food and raw materials.
Source: Killing History
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The evidence is overwhelming that Hitler, Rosenberg, Bormann, Himmler and others were anti-Christian.
They have seized the possessions and property of eight Catholic institutions and more than 30 convents. The Nazi-controlled Press provides only very meagre information about these seizures.
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They have seized the possessions and property of eight Catholic institutions and more than 30 convents. The Nazi-controlled Press provides only very meagre information about these seizures.
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