Hitler was a tax dodger and also a lavish spender while larping as a socialist 'man of the people'. Champagne socialism strikes once again.

> "The luxury life of Adolf Hitler is laid bare in a new biography that destroys the myth of his frugal 'man of the people' facade that he constructed to bind the German masses to his will. Acclaimed historian Volker Ullrich's 1,100-page work entitled simply Adolf Hitler accessed archives across Germany to find the paper trail testifying to his love of fine clothes, fast cars and expensive hotels. 'The bills are all there,' said Ullrich. 'He was living large from the earliest days.'"

> "Later, when the royalties started rolling in from the sales of his maniacal autobiography Mein Kampf and the payments from the German post office for his image on all stamps, he became fantastically rich. One bill from December 1931 - 15 months before he came to power - is from master tailor Michael Werner of Munich for clothes including a suit made of 'the finest materials lined with silk', trousers, jackets, a lounge suit and two white vests for which he paid in Reichsmarks the equivalent of £4,750 at today's rates."

> "In the Federal Archive of the German government in Berlin-Lichterfelde, the repository of numerous files of the Nazi era, Ullrich discovered a pile of bills totalling tens of thousands of pounds at today's conversion rates for suites, champagne and expensive meals for Hitler and his cronies at the elite Rheinhotel Dreesen at Bonn. One invoice from March 10, 1932 - again at a time before the money started rolling in from his royalties - party foot-soldiers were subsidising the high living with a bill presented to Hitler for £5,000 for a three-night stay."

> "'I discovered other bills for cars, garages, car accessories, the outlays for Hitler's residences and the house rented by Hitler's guards on the Obersalzberg, near to the Berghof country home,' said the author, whose work has been acclaimed for shining a light on the more human aspects of a most inhuman dictator. 'This was all completely contrary to the image of the humble "man of the people" formulated by his propaganda.'"

> "The future Fuehrer lived in abject poverty as a young man before the war in the streets and doss-houses of the Austrian capital Vienna. And it seems that when he had access to power and money, he was determined never to repeat the experience."

> "The archives also showed that, along with Hitler's love of money for the trappings it bought him, he liked its power to bend politicians to his will. He lavished gifts on both friends and rivals - often fantastic jewellery or rare paintings - bought with the £6million he earned from the sales of Mein Kampf. But Hitler, who paid no income tax during his years in power, made little distinction between private and state funds. His 30-car fleet of powerful Mercedes was paid for by the man in the street while he bought a house for his mistress - and latterly wife - Eva Braun with cash from his stamp portrait dues. He also owned the copyright on all official photos of himself, mandatory for every home, office and workplace in Germany, and therefore the source of another huge windfall. And in his lifetime, industrialists gave him cash gifts of well over £2billion as a thank-you for the war industry work which in turn made them rich. 'Hitler loved money for the things it could buy him,' added the author."

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Italian war crimes in World War II and before

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Tik on NS as racist Communism.

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Hitler was not an anti-communist. He was a crypto-communist.

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Fascism is Marxism with an Italian national twist.

National Socialism is Marxism with a Germanic racial and national twist.

The goal of both is to abolish market economics and implement socialist state controls on all human and economic activity. Classes to be slowly phased out and a levelized "national community" with no economic stratification. Disobedience met with death or imprisonment.

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Hitler called Christianity "meek and flabby". The Nazis seized hundreds of monasteries in Germany and Austria. Starting in 1935 2,720 clerics were arrested and sent to Dachau where many died.

Source: Killing History

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> No intention to allow individuals to control their own property or assets
> National interest supersedes individual interest (meaning whatever the state says goes)
> At any moment they could seize your property without due process

Source: Killing History

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PraxBen on how the fascists eliminated all private schools.

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Hitler was anti-communist in the same way Ted Haggard was homophobic.

When Hitler says that he identifies himself as Greek, he is referring to the ancient Greeks, not his contemporary Greeks. According to Hitler, the ancient Greeks were Nordics who migrated from the north to the south and built the Mediterranean civilization. Yes, Hitler, was "we wuz"ing here.

> "By the Greeks Hitler meant the Dorians. Naturally his view was affected by the theory, fostered by the scientists of his period, that THE DORIAN TRIBE WHICH MIGRATED INTO GREECE FROM THE NORTH HAD BEEN OF GERMANIC ORIGIN and that, therefore, ITS CULTURE HAD NOT BELONGED TO THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD."
Source: Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich.

> "The Germanic people can understand Greekism because they themselves have the Nordic blood that the Greeks once had."
Source: Adolf Hitler, speech, Munich on October 10, 1928


> “They [Pre-Christian Germanic tribes] weren't on a higher cultural level up there than the Maori! Nevertheless, the Greek profile, and that of the Caesars, is that of the men of this North of ours, and I'd wager that I could find amongst our peasants two thousand heads of that type."
Source: Adolf Hitler, Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941–1944: Die Aufzeichnungen Heinrich Heims, ed. Werner Jochmann, 4.2.1942

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Hitler was a kook who believed all great civilizations stemmed from a "Germanic element" in them, like he said about Slavs in Mein Kampf. This is the Germanic version of "We Wuz Kangz".

> "In his December 11, 1941, speech, in which Hitler declared war on the United States, he posed as the defender of European civilization against external foes. He rehearsed earlier struggles of the Greeks, Romans, and Germanic peoples against their enemies. He explained, “There was a time when Europe was that Greek island into which Nordic tribes penetrated in order to light the flame for the first time that has since slowly but steadily begun to enlighten the world of man.” Thus he clearly ascribed Germanic origins to Greek culture. After the Greeks the cultural torch was passed to the Romans and later to the Germanic peoples, who were the primary representatives of European civilization."

— Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

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Hitler always wanted to annex  Czechoslovakia.
He talks about annexing Czechoslovakia in the Hossbach memorandum.
https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/docpage.cfm?docpage_id=2322
It is important to note the reason that Hitler gave in the Hossbach memorandum is not the discrimination against Germans but: "the annexation of Czechoslovakia and Austria would mean an acquisition of foodstuffs for 5 to 6 million people"

Even 8 months before the Hossbach memorandum Hitler confided to Goebbels about annexation of Czechoslovakia.

> Late one night in mid-March 1937... Hitler told his propaganda minister that he intended to incorporate Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Reich. “We need both to round off our territory,” Goebbels reported Hitler saying. “And we’ll get them…When their citizens come to Germany, they’ll be crushed by the greatness and power of the Reich…Hence the Führer’s gigantic construction plans. He’ll never give them up.”

Source: Volker Ullrich, Hitler Ascent. (Goebbels, Tagebücher, part 1, vol. 4, p. 52 (entry for 15 March 1937)

Also note that neither in the Hossbach memorandum nor in Goebbels Diaries is Hitler talking about Sudetenland, where the German minority was present; instead, Hitler is talking about annexing all of Czechoslovakia.

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> "Giovanni Gentile, the main philosopher of Fascism, believed that––not only did fascist doctrine achieve the only feasible form of Socialism––but Fascist Philosophy had become a form of Practical Marxism"

What does this even mean? What I take it to mean is that Gentile's "practical Marxism" is little more than tricking the citizens into relinquishing most economic ownership & control to the State by leaving a thin veneer of private ownership & property within their heavily socialized & regimented State-run economy so as to keep the plebs on the plantation. These bureaucrats understand that most people only work hard with the hope of obtaining private property. Why else do people work? Nobody would take the risk of starting a company if there was no reward at the end of it, that being private property. So the "practical" part here was using rhetoric that slightly distinguished itself from the traditional anti-private property Marxist-Leninists by acting like they wouldn't take all your property & socialize it right away. But since "nothing can be outside the State," as Mussolini famously said, if your business became successful enough to catch the State's attention it would either be socialized or taxed/regulated to such a degree that it becomes little more than a State asset with a pseudo private manager.

"The "atrocity reports" in August 1939 were largely based on pure invention; they were hardly anything more than imaginative construction of the Nazi propaganda machine."
— Daniel Brewing, Murderers are Other People. “Polish Atrocities” and the Legitimization of Nazi Violence (University of Illinois Press)

https://telegra.ph/Hitler-did-not-care-about-the-Ethnic-Germans-rather-he-only-cared-to-conquer-territories-05-17