"But but da Third Reich had no debt maaan!"
Fake.
By 39 they were 38 billion in the hole. Nearly 70% of government expenditures went to military production by this time. Bills were piling up. When this happened they usually resorted to levying more taxes on wealthier people or forcing the nominally private firms to invest in more government bonds. Or just straight up confiscating 10 years worth of taxes up front.
"In mid-1941, the standard rate of corporation tax was raised from 40 to 50 per cent and then, as of January 1942, to 55 per cent. Revenue from this source rose by 1.5 billion Reichsmarks in 1941-2 and by a further 1.8 billion Reichs- marks in 1942-3.6 More important was the mortgaging of future revenues from the Hauszinssteuer, a measure first proposed by the Reich Finance Ministry in December 1941. As we have seen, this tax had been introduced by the Weimar Republic in the 1920s to finance public housing construction. It generally brought in about 850 million Reichsmarks per annum. To combat the wartime fiscal emergency, the Finance Ministry originally proposed a prepayment of four years' worth of tax. But on the insistence of the Prussian Finance Ministry and others this was raised to a one-off prepayment of ten years of tax.47 At least 4.5 billion Reichsmarks came out of liquid bank accounts and cash reserves of property owners; the rest was raised in the form of new mortgages. In total in 1942, this one-off measure brought in 8 billion Reichsmarks. Together with an increase in contributions from the occupied territories, it was enough to raise the share of Reich expenditure covered by tax revenues in 1942 to more than 54 per cent, despite a sharp increase in spending. The inflationary spiral was halted, at least for the time being." - Wages of Destruction, Adam Tooze
Then once the war started, they financed it all through looting foreign countries' reserves, forcing them to give loans they didn't pay back (like with Greece), seizing their land and other resources and slave labour in the camps. Not paying these millions of workers saved them quite a lot of money.
"Muh debt free miracle system" is silly propaganda.
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Fake.
By 39 they were 38 billion in the hole. Nearly 70% of government expenditures went to military production by this time. Bills were piling up. When this happened they usually resorted to levying more taxes on wealthier people or forcing the nominally private firms to invest in more government bonds. Or just straight up confiscating 10 years worth of taxes up front.
"In mid-1941, the standard rate of corporation tax was raised from 40 to 50 per cent and then, as of January 1942, to 55 per cent. Revenue from this source rose by 1.5 billion Reichsmarks in 1941-2 and by a further 1.8 billion Reichs- marks in 1942-3.6 More important was the mortgaging of future revenues from the Hauszinssteuer, a measure first proposed by the Reich Finance Ministry in December 1941. As we have seen, this tax had been introduced by the Weimar Republic in the 1920s to finance public housing construction. It generally brought in about 850 million Reichsmarks per annum. To combat the wartime fiscal emergency, the Finance Ministry originally proposed a prepayment of four years' worth of tax. But on the insistence of the Prussian Finance Ministry and others this was raised to a one-off prepayment of ten years of tax.47 At least 4.5 billion Reichsmarks came out of liquid bank accounts and cash reserves of property owners; the rest was raised in the form of new mortgages. In total in 1942, this one-off measure brought in 8 billion Reichsmarks. Together with an increase in contributions from the occupied territories, it was enough to raise the share of Reich expenditure covered by tax revenues in 1942 to more than 54 per cent, despite a sharp increase in spending. The inflationary spiral was halted, at least for the time being." - Wages of Destruction, Adam Tooze
Then once the war started, they financed it all through looting foreign countries' reserves, forcing them to give loans they didn't pay back (like with Greece), seizing their land and other resources and slave labour in the camps. Not paying these millions of workers saved them quite a lot of money.
"Muh debt free miracle system" is silly propaganda.
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On June 18 1940, Stalin’s USSR Officially Congratulated Hitler’s Germany for Successfully Conquering France
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Farmers were mere managers of state-run farms.
250 new regulations passed in the first two years of Nazi rule with strict quotas on production and price controls on their products.
Source: Wages of Destruction
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250 new regulations passed in the first two years of Nazi rule with strict quotas on production and price controls on their products.
Source: Wages of Destruction
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Mussolini explicitly rejects a racial or ethnic basis for nationalism in the Doctrine of Fascism:
"Not a race, nor a geographically defined region, but a people, historically perpetuating itself; a multitude unified by an idea and imbued with the will to live, the will to power, self-consciousness, personality (19).In so far as it is embodied in a State, this higher personality becomes a nation."
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"Not a race, nor a geographically defined region, but a people, historically perpetuating itself; a multitude unified by an idea and imbued with the will to live, the will to power, self-consciousness, personality (19).In so far as it is embodied in a State, this higher personality becomes a nation."
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Hitler says clearly that he wanted a movement made up mostly of not intelligent lower class people because they are "easier to discipline" (i.e., they're lemmings).
He wanted manual labourers not doctors or lawyers who would be amenable to simple messaging and propaganda.
Hitler regarded it the main task of the party to "gain the lower masses."
He didn't want to draw too heavily from the intelligentsia because they were more likely to rebel against his plans.
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He wanted manual labourers not doctors or lawyers who would be amenable to simple messaging and propaganda.
Hitler regarded it the main task of the party to "gain the lower masses."
He didn't want to draw too heavily from the intelligentsia because they were more likely to rebel against his plans.
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Stalin liked Hitler too. Moron Stalin ignored warnings of a coming German invasion because he thought his pal Hitler would not go through with it.
> "CONAN: And then there is Stalin. Universally described as shrewd and suspicious, canny, but who could not bring himself to accept overwhelming evidence that an invasion was about to happen."
> "Mr. LUKACS: Now added to this comes a very important element that some people have known, and that's Stalin had a liking for Hitler. Stalin greatly admired Hitler. The odd thing is that his respect and admiration for Hitler appeared in drips and drabs even after the war started, even toward the end of the war, here and there he dropped some quite comfortable remarks about Hitler, or rather he had admired. And another element connected with this is that Stalin had a great liking and respect for Germans and for Germany. And that goes back to pretty early in his career."
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> "CONAN: And then there is Stalin. Universally described as shrewd and suspicious, canny, but who could not bring himself to accept overwhelming evidence that an invasion was about to happen."
> "Mr. LUKACS: Now added to this comes a very important element that some people have known, and that's Stalin had a liking for Hitler. Stalin greatly admired Hitler. The odd thing is that his respect and admiration for Hitler appeared in drips and drabs even after the war started, even toward the end of the war, here and there he dropped some quite comfortable remarks about Hitler, or rather he had admired. And another element connected with this is that Stalin had a great liking and respect for Germans and for Germany. And that goes back to pretty early in his career."
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This is full proof to me that Douglas MacGregor is historically illiterate and unqualified to speak on either geopolitics or history.
He claims here that Hitler didn't start World War II (he blames it on Stalin) and says Hitlerism was "a reaction to Stalin's Bolshevism".
Hitler was the first to invade Poland WITH Stalin who annexed the other half, which they both celebrated together in a victory march (video above). Hitler's Molotov-Ribbentrop pact laid the groundwork for the invasion of Poland by both powers.
But Hitler invaded first, so he is principally responsible for the outbreak of world war. Stalin is a close second and followed up that invasion with invasion of the Baltics and Finland.
The "reaction of Bolshevism" line is refuted by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact itself and Hitler's private admiration for Stalin. Instead of "reacting to Bolshevism" Hitler COLLABORATED with it to help it spread to the Baltics and Eastern Poland. Not to mention the close similarities between fascism and bolshevism.
When will these liars shut up with this nonsense?
He claims here that Hitler didn't start World War II (he blames it on Stalin) and says Hitlerism was "a reaction to Stalin's Bolshevism".
Hitler was the first to invade Poland WITH Stalin who annexed the other half, which they both celebrated together in a victory march (video above). Hitler's Molotov-Ribbentrop pact laid the groundwork for the invasion of Poland by both powers.
But Hitler invaded first, so he is principally responsible for the outbreak of world war. Stalin is a close second and followed up that invasion with invasion of the Baltics and Finland.
The "reaction of Bolshevism" line is refuted by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact itself and Hitler's private admiration for Stalin. Instead of "reacting to Bolshevism" Hitler COLLABORATED with it to help it spread to the Baltics and Eastern Poland. Not to mention the close similarities between fascism and bolshevism.
When will these liars shut up with this nonsense?
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Hitler said you shouldn't criticize Stalin because political tyranny is good. He thought that because he realized that his own policies were so similar to that of Stalin that the types of critiques leveled at Stalin could be leveled against him too.
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German soldiers publicly executing prominent Polish citizens in the Market Square of Bydgoszcz, as part of the mass shootings of Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) after the invasion of Poland, 9 September 1939. The mass murder operations of the Intelligenzaktion resulted in the killing of 100,000 Polish people in the early days of WWII.
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The South Tyrol situation demonstrated Hitler's duplicity on the ethnic diaspora question.
> "During the first years of South Tyrolean integration into Italy, both Italian authorities and South Tyrolean representatives tried to find an appropriate solution for the German-speaking minority. Yet, a movement called the irredenta, or the unredeemed (as in unredeemed territories), insisted that this area should have always belonged to Italy. The leaders of this movement were determined to crush any sense of Tyrolean culture. When Benito Mussolini and his Fascist party took over in 1922, the South Tyroleans faced a different treatment by the Italian authorities. Fascism threatened not only to suppress the language of the German-speaking minority in the north, but also to uproot the cultural identity of that area."
> "The first and major aim was to Italianize the public language of the area, to Italianize all public inscriptions, town names, street names, and eventually family names and even inscriptions on tombstones. For those who did not comply, they faced major harassment, despotic laws that even regulated their pets and personal belongings. For those who did, they were rewarded with free textbooks, jobs for those who joined the workers’ associations, or who generally collaborated with the Fascists’ economic societies."
> "And then the government injected the local society with transplanted Italians. “Majoritarianism” was the attempt by the Italian government to generate an Italian majority in South Tyrol. In Bolzano, the government built a new industrial complex and apartment buildings for Italian factory workers. In other cities the government financed the construction of hydroelectric power plants which flooded lands and villages. The government started purchasing land from South Tyrolean bankrupted farmers and provided minor compensation for land destroyed by the flooding. The South Tyroleans had little chance to resist the dictatorial measures."
> "Although open confrontation with the Italian regime was rare, the South Tyroleans managed to withstand most of the Italianization efforts. To counteract Fascist attempts, Germans outside of Italy established a secret relief fund during the economic crisis to prevent further South Tyroleans from having to declare bankruptcy and lose their lands. As Hitler rose to power, so did the South Tyroleans’ hopes that they might have found the leader who would finally bring them back to their rightful place: Austria. Hitler had different intentions. He claimed that Germany’s only possible option was to assure Italy that the South Tyrolean problem did not exist. Despite Hitler’s public renunciation of South Tyrol and despite the development of the German-Italian friendship."
> "During Hitler’s visit in Rome in May 1938, Mussolini confessed, “The past developments have shown, that this tribe cannot be assimilated.” Therefore he promised that he would make some concessions to the German-speaking minority in the north as long as Hitler guaranteed the pacification of the area. By now, both Germany and Italy were interested in settling this question once and for all."
"On June 23, 1939, the two dictatorial regimes decided to move the German-speaking South Tyroleans to German territory in the north and leave South Tyrol with Italy. The two governments gave the South Tyroleans the option either to emigrate to Germany or to remain in South Tyrol and become “good Italians.” At first, the South Tyroleans’ reactions were a fierce rejection of Hitler’s offer to “come home into the Reich.” But soon the Nazi-oriented VKS (Völkisher Kampfring Südtirols, or the South Tyrolean People’s Freedom Party) succeeded in convincing their fellow countrymen that the South Tyroleans’ resettlement in Germany was a necessary “sacrifice.”"
> "During the first years of South Tyrolean integration into Italy, both Italian authorities and South Tyrolean representatives tried to find an appropriate solution for the German-speaking minority. Yet, a movement called the irredenta, or the unredeemed (as in unredeemed territories), insisted that this area should have always belonged to Italy. The leaders of this movement were determined to crush any sense of Tyrolean culture. When Benito Mussolini and his Fascist party took over in 1922, the South Tyroleans faced a different treatment by the Italian authorities. Fascism threatened not only to suppress the language of the German-speaking minority in the north, but also to uproot the cultural identity of that area."
> "The first and major aim was to Italianize the public language of the area, to Italianize all public inscriptions, town names, street names, and eventually family names and even inscriptions on tombstones. For those who did not comply, they faced major harassment, despotic laws that even regulated their pets and personal belongings. For those who did, they were rewarded with free textbooks, jobs for those who joined the workers’ associations, or who generally collaborated with the Fascists’ economic societies."
> "And then the government injected the local society with transplanted Italians. “Majoritarianism” was the attempt by the Italian government to generate an Italian majority in South Tyrol. In Bolzano, the government built a new industrial complex and apartment buildings for Italian factory workers. In other cities the government financed the construction of hydroelectric power plants which flooded lands and villages. The government started purchasing land from South Tyrolean bankrupted farmers and provided minor compensation for land destroyed by the flooding. The South Tyroleans had little chance to resist the dictatorial measures."
> "Although open confrontation with the Italian regime was rare, the South Tyroleans managed to withstand most of the Italianization efforts. To counteract Fascist attempts, Germans outside of Italy established a secret relief fund during the economic crisis to prevent further South Tyroleans from having to declare bankruptcy and lose their lands. As Hitler rose to power, so did the South Tyroleans’ hopes that they might have found the leader who would finally bring them back to their rightful place: Austria. Hitler had different intentions. He claimed that Germany’s only possible option was to assure Italy that the South Tyrolean problem did not exist. Despite Hitler’s public renunciation of South Tyrol and despite the development of the German-Italian friendship."
> "During Hitler’s visit in Rome in May 1938, Mussolini confessed, “The past developments have shown, that this tribe cannot be assimilated.” Therefore he promised that he would make some concessions to the German-speaking minority in the north as long as Hitler guaranteed the pacification of the area. By now, both Germany and Italy were interested in settling this question once and for all."
"On June 23, 1939, the two dictatorial regimes decided to move the German-speaking South Tyroleans to German territory in the north and leave South Tyrol with Italy. The two governments gave the South Tyroleans the option either to emigrate to Germany or to remain in South Tyrol and become “good Italians.” At first, the South Tyroleans’ reactions were a fierce rejection of Hitler’s offer to “come home into the Reich.” But soon the Nazi-oriented VKS (Völkisher Kampfring Südtirols, or the South Tyrolean People’s Freedom Party) succeeded in convincing their fellow countrymen that the South Tyroleans’ resettlement in Germany was a necessary “sacrifice.”"
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> "The propaganda that evolved on both sides during the months following the June discussions, eventually divided the German-speaking South Tyroleans population into two hostile camps, those remaining and those who opted for Germany. Almost ninety percent of the population opted for emigration. Those who voted to stay were condemned as traitors while those who chose to leave were defamed as Nazis. The Option destroyed many families and the development of the economy of the province was set back for many years. The first families left their homeland in 1939, and by 1943 a total of around 75,000 South Tyroleans had emigrated, of which approximately 50,000 returned after the war."
So Hitler did not accuse Italy of "genocide" for aggressive Italianization efforts in South Tyrol. Instead, he agreed to solve the issue by inviting them into the Reich, an option he never gave the Germans in Poland because he wanted to justify the theft of Polish territory.
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So Hitler did not accuse Italy of "genocide" for aggressive Italianization efforts in South Tyrol. Instead, he agreed to solve the issue by inviting them into the Reich, an option he never gave the Germans in Poland because he wanted to justify the theft of Polish territory.
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Lebensraum is the Germanic dream of the restoration of the Gothic empire of Germanarich from the Rhine to the Urals or the Gottorp Russian Empire, where most of the landlords were Ostsee Germans and owned millions of Baltic (in the Baltic Governorate) and Russian (in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia) slaves.
There is no doubt that after enslaving the Slavs, the Germans would have turned south and started conquering the sunny Mediterranean lands, paying homage to the Germanic barbarians invading the Roman Empire.
I don't see how the European right can be in favor of Hitler, who was a German socialist who put the Hindu swastika on the German banner, who respected Islam and even reasoned that if the Germans embraced Islam, they would oust the Arabs from ruling positions in the Caliphate and conquer the world by the right of the strong with this “heroic religion”.
There is no doubt that after enslaving the Slavs, the Germans would have turned south and started conquering the sunny Mediterranean lands, paying homage to the Germanic barbarians invading the Roman Empire.
I don't see how the European right can be in favor of Hitler, who was a German socialist who put the Hindu swastika on the German banner, who respected Islam and even reasoned that if the Germans embraced Islam, they would oust the Arabs from ruling positions in the Caliphate and conquer the world by the right of the strong with this “heroic religion”.
Cambridge Core
Nazi Germany and Islam in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East | Central European History | Cambridge Core
Nazi Germany and Islam in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East - Volume 49 Issue 2
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Marxists: We must seize the wealth of the bourgeoisie and redistribute it to all "workers".
Nazis: We must seize the wealth of the Jewish bourgeoisie and redistribute it to all "German workers".
In so many ways Nazism was simply a modification of Marxism with the generic wealthy swapped out for "wealthy Jews" (they also went after wealthy Germans who didn't comply); the generic proletariat swapped in for the "German proletariat".
Hence why Hitler said: "we National Socialists wish precisely to attract all socialists, even the Communists; we wish to win them over from their international camp to the national one."
In other words, a small modification of Marxist doctrine from generic and international to German and national. Beefsteak Nazism.
My issue with the Jewish establishment is not that they're "wealthy" (they're not all wealthy, not all wealthy people are Jews, nor do I envy wealthy people); my issue is that their leaders have imbibed a rancid progressive ideology that is contributing to the collapse of civilization. It's the same beef that I have with the Christian leadership and many non-Jewish Whites who have taken up the same ideology. If their leaders weren't pushing anti-White progressivism, I don't think any of us would even notice they exist.
The problem with the Nazi critique of Jews is it's contradictory ("they're bad for being socialists AND capitalists! Liberals AND conservatives!") and rooted in an envy-jealousy of perceived Jewish societal success, hence the focus on their "over-representation" in various areas. Just pointing to their over-representation in some field is not a valid critique. You can find them over-represented among chess-champions, Nobel prize winners, scientists, lawyers, doctors, economists and all cognitively demanding activities. Are we to criticize them for being doctors and scientists too?
A valid critique is when groups of Jews get together as Jews to promote an agenda that they view as beneficial to them but is not beneficial to the majority, like immigration, social leftism or foreign wars. That's a different thing then just attacking them on "over-representation" grounds which is a weak argument rooted in envy.
Nazis: We must seize the wealth of the Jewish bourgeoisie and redistribute it to all "German workers".
In so many ways Nazism was simply a modification of Marxism with the generic wealthy swapped out for "wealthy Jews" (they also went after wealthy Germans who didn't comply); the generic proletariat swapped in for the "German proletariat".
Hence why Hitler said: "we National Socialists wish precisely to attract all socialists, even the Communists; we wish to win them over from their international camp to the national one."
In other words, a small modification of Marxist doctrine from generic and international to German and national. Beefsteak Nazism.
My issue with the Jewish establishment is not that they're "wealthy" (they're not all wealthy, not all wealthy people are Jews, nor do I envy wealthy people); my issue is that their leaders have imbibed a rancid progressive ideology that is contributing to the collapse of civilization. It's the same beef that I have with the Christian leadership and many non-Jewish Whites who have taken up the same ideology. If their leaders weren't pushing anti-White progressivism, I don't think any of us would even notice they exist.
The problem with the Nazi critique of Jews is it's contradictory ("they're bad for being socialists AND capitalists! Liberals AND conservatives!") and rooted in an envy-jealousy of perceived Jewish societal success, hence the focus on their "over-representation" in various areas. Just pointing to their over-representation in some field is not a valid critique. You can find them over-represented among chess-champions, Nobel prize winners, scientists, lawyers, doctors, economists and all cognitively demanding activities. Are we to criticize them for being doctors and scientists too?
A valid critique is when groups of Jews get together as Jews to promote an agenda that they view as beneficial to them but is not beneficial to the majority, like immigration, social leftism or foreign wars. That's a different thing then just attacking them on "over-representation" grounds which is a weak argument rooted in envy.
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Forwarded from 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐈𝐈
“Our programs are decidedly revolutionary, our ideas belong to those that in a democratic regime would be called "left"; our institutions are a direct consequence of our programs; our ideal is the State of Work. There can be no doubt about this: we are the proletarians fighting, for life and death, against capitalism. We are revolutionaries in search of a new order. If this is true, addressing the bourgeoisie by waving the red danger is absurd. The real scarecrow, the authentic danger, the threat against which we fight tirelessly, comes from the right. We are therefore not interested in having the capitalist bourgeoisie as an ally against the threat of the red danger: even in the best of hypotheses it would be nothing but an untrustworthy ally, which would try to make us serve its purposes, as it has already done more than once with a certain success. Wasting words on it is perfectly superfluous. Indeed, it is harmful, in that it causes us to be confused, from authentic revolutionaries of any color, with the men of reaction whose language we sometimes use."
-Enzo Pezzato, The Fascist Republic (22 April 1945)
-Enzo Pezzato, The Fascist Republic (22 April 1945)
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"Our cause is based on the truth"
So why does every Natsoc lie his ass off about Hitler's anti-Slavic views and his Lebensraum program to colonize the east?
Natsoc rehabilitation relies heavily on outright lies and lies by omission. But of course, this roidhead doesn't care about the anti-Slavic stuff because he's a Nordicist himself.
So why does every Natsoc lie his ass off about Hitler's anti-Slavic views and his Lebensraum program to colonize the east?
Natsoc rehabilitation relies heavily on outright lies and lies by omission. But of course, this roidhead doesn't care about the anti-Slavic stuff because he's a Nordicist himself.
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