Comments by "Nick Nolte" (@nicknolte8671) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. The uploader cites the first volume of Richard J. Evans, but doesn't cite the second or the third volumes. I wonder why. Oh, that's right. Because the second volume completely contradicts what he's saying. You know. When Nazis actually come to power and start applying their agenda. "All this had been achieved by a growing state direction of the economy which by 1939 had reached unprecedented proportions. Whatever the propaganda messages about the battle for work might claim, Nazi economic policy was driven by the overwhelming desire on the part of Hitler and the leadership, backed up by the armed forces, to prepare for war. Up to the latter part of 1936, this was conducted in a way that aroused few objections from business; when the Four-Year Plan began to come into effect, however, the drive for rearmament began to outpace the economy’s ability to supply it, and business began to chafe under a rapidly tightening net of restrictions and controls. More ominously, private enterprise started to be outflanked by state-run enterprises founded and funded by a regime increasingly impatient with the priority accorded by capitalism to profit. Yet none of this, whatever critics suspected, represented a return to the allegedly socialist principles espoused by the Nazis in their early days. Those principles had long been left behind, and in reality they were never socialist anyway. The Third Reich was never going to create total state ownership and centralized planning along the lines of Stalin’s Russia. The Darwinian principles that animated the regime dictated that competition between companies and individuals would remain the guiding principle of the economy, just as competition between different agencies of state and Party were the guiding principles of politics and administration." Note that this book is actually peer-reviewed and cited over 900 times by academics. No one in academia will ever bother to review or cite this video.
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  2. "only one capitalist funded Hitler prior to the seizure of power" - TIK Holy sheee--- Another bonkers claim by your resident liar. "At the February meeting, the I.G. Farben executives gave the Nazis 400,000 marks, and a total of 4.5 million marks by the end of 1933, according to The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben. This infusion of corporate cash saved the Nazi Party from financial disaster" Helllooooo.... TIK? IG Farben gave the Nazis 4.5 million Reichsmarks and saved them from bankruptcy... How do you not know this?
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  3. I guess you know better than George Orwell. "For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism." - George Orwell Just like how both the left and the right concurred in the very shallow notion that Trumpism is a version of conservatism. It's really a version of fascism.
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  4. George Orwell: "For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism."
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  5. If you read Adam Smith, a free market can never exist in a society that is "uniquely influenced by merchants and manufacturers". He also writes how the influence of these same "merchants and manufacturers" should be curbed as they have an "interest in deceiving the public and oppressing it" and have "upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it". He also believed that rich people should pay more than their fair share. “The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. . . . The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. . . . It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”
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  6. The uploader of this video thinks North Korea is a democracy and that Kim Jong-Un's "mandate" stems from the "people", so I hope that answers your question.
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  7.  Wulf  Uh, these are all lies. For example, in 1931, Hitler "traversed the whole of Germany, holding private meetings with business personalities in lonely forest glades" according to William L. Shirer. The reason they weren't supported before that is because they were winning 2-3% of the vote. The industrialists were busy financing other right-wing parties because they wanted to end Weimar's welfare state and destroy the power of the trade unions. They also wanted to destroy democracy. Since day 1 of the Weimar Republic. That's why every single conservative and right-wing party in the Reichstag voted for Hitler's Enabling Act.
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  8.  @johnnonamegibbon3580  And that's why IG Farben gave 4.5 million Reichsmarks to Hitler before the 1933 elections and saved the Nazi Party from bankruptcy. Long before Hitler was voted as dictator by every single conservative party in the Reichstag. During the Nazi regime, IG Farben would become one of the biggest private companies in the world, numbering 200,000 employees. Corporate profitability shot up 4 times when comparing the years 1928 and 1938. War is profitable -- the Nazis spent 10% of GNP on rearmament efforts by 1936 and 60% of the government's budget on it by 1939. No wonder so many industrialists were tried and convicted in Nuremberg for their roles in the Nazi regime and the Holocaust (IG Farben, Krupp and Flick trials).
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  9.  @johnnonamegibbon3580  There is not a single historian with a PhD in the whole wide world of nearly 8 billion people that denies that 6 million Jews died or the methods by which the Holocaust was accomplished (using military-industrial means, which makes it unique in history). You quoting one guy that's not even a historian doesn't amount to much. When there's a historical consensus, the onus of proof is on those that deny the consensus to present evidence to the contrary in peer-reviewed books and papers. That's why this video isn't worth sh*t, for example.
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  10. Let's see... Capitalists bring about the biggest crisis of capitalism in history and then they seize power to save their own financial interests. Exactly what I was saying. And they financed the fascists and Nazis and extreme nationalists (wHo AreN't rEalLy RaCisTs - lol, imagine claiming [extreme] nationalists aren't racist). "From 1924 to 1929, the big business interests subsidized the fascist bands just enough to keep them from disappearing. They did not, in fact, have an immediate need for them and merely wanted to keep them in reserve. During these years, they were engaged in an enormous industrial reorganization with the aid of foreign capital. This enterprise demanded, temporarily, a policy of collaboration - collaboration abroad with the Entente, with Anglo-Saxon finance, and collaboration at home with the workers' organizations. When the mark was definitively stabilized and the Dawes Plan came into effect, American capital began to flow into Germany. Until 1931, the "most enormous investment operation in financial history" was taking place, reaching the figure of 30 billion gold marks. However, this audacious operation ended in an economic catastrophe without precedent. With dollars borrowed at very high rates, German industry expanded its productive machinery by a third, equipping itself to supply the needs of the whole world. But one thing was lacking: the consumer. At home, the purchasing power of wages rose much more slowly than the productive capacity; on the other hand, an increasingly large number of workers had been eliminated by "rationalization" and reduced to idleness. (This technological unemployment appeared as early as 1927, and in January 1929, there were already more than two million unemployed). Finally, the ever-widening trustification, by permitting the big monopolies to raise sales prices arbitrarily, overwhelmed the consumer and reduced his purchasing power. But the magnates were counting above all on the foreign market; they cut their export prices to the bone and, at the expense of the domestic consumer, prepared to dump on a gigantic scale. And, suddenly, at the moment the new means of production were put into operation, when the finished products were beginning to pile up in the factories, the foreign buyer disappeared, and the world crisis began." No wonder capitalists in the US supported the Nazi regime. They wanted to protect their own financial investments.
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  11. "only one capitalist funded Hitler prior to the seizure of power" - TIK "Von Finck [Sr.] and other industrialists met Adolf Hitler for the first time on 3 February 1931 at Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin. At that meeting von Finck and Schmitt committed 5 million Reichsmark, equivalent to today's €100 million, on behalf of Allianz to arm the SA in case of a leftist uprising. On 20 February 1933, Finck and other industrialists again met Hitler, who has been recently appointed chancellor, at a secret meeting and provided €3 million for his election campaign." Source: Nicosia, Francis R.; Huener, Jonathan; Studies, University of Vermont Center for Holocaust (2004). Business and Industry in Nazi Germany Von Finck Sr. was one of the richest men in Bavaria, whose heirs own half the Munich city center and much of the surrounding land. Von Finck Sr. himself actively lobbied for expropriation of Jewish property and bought multiple banks owned by the Jewish families way below market value. His heirs funded the Deutschland Kurier, a conservative publication supportive of AfD. In a meeting between Ernst Knut Stahl, an asset manager for August Von Finck Jr. and publishers in May 2017, Stahl said: "There's danger ahead, there's a street in New York with lots of investment bankers, lawyers and so forth. Coincidentally, they are all Jews, but that's not relevant here. They want to push Germany into ruin. They control everything."
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  12. "only one capitalist funded Hitler prior to the seizure of power" - TIK List of capitalists which gave Hitler 2 million Reichsmarks after he had said "Business was founded above all on the principles of personality and individual leadership. Democracy and [political] liberalism led inevitably to Social Democracy and Communism" at the Secret Meeting of February 20 1933: 23 February Bergbauverein: 200,000 Reichsmark 24 February Karl Hermann: 150,000 Reichsmark Automobil-Ausstellung, Berlin: 100,000 Reichsmark 25 February Dir. A. Steinke: 200,000 Reichsmark Demag: 50,000 Reichsmark 27 February Telefunken: 35,000 Reichsmark Osram: 40,000 Reichsmark 28 February IG Farben: 400,000 Reichsmark 1 March Hjalmar Schacht: 125,000 Reichsmark 3 March Dir. Karl Lange, Engineering industry: 50,000 Reichsmark Bergbauverein: 100,000 Reichsmark Karl Hermann, Berlin Dessauer Str.: 150,000 Reichsmark AEG: 60,000 Reichsmark March 7 Fritz Springorum: 36,000 Reichsmark Accumulatorenfabrik AG, Berlin (Owner: Günther Quandt): 25,000 Reichsmark 13 March Bergbauverein: 300,000 Reichsmark Final Balance 2,071,000 Reichsmark
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  13.  @UnknownUserName9999  What technicality? Any serious historian would present evidence in a book or in a paper, not in a video format. The reason sophists use social media is because they don't have evidence. As Plato wrote 24 centuries ago, a sophist may convince the crowd of lay people that he knows what's better for their health than doctors, but he will never, ever convince a crowd of doctors. Not without evidence. So I do urge TIK to present his evidence in a book that will be peer-reviewed. Good luck. I quoted an economic historian. TIK is an amateur.
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  14. "The domestic agenda was one of authoritarian conservatism, with a pronounced distaste for parliamentary politics, high taxes, welfare spending and trade unions." -- Adam Tooze, "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy" Adam Tooze is a historian with a doctorate in economic history and a degree in economics. His book has been reviewed and cited by other historians and economic historians and has over 100 pages of citations. No one will ever cite or review this video in academia. P.S. The uploader of this video believes Adam Tooze to be a part of the "cultural Marxist" conspiracy in academia. That's something the Nazis maintained all the way back in the 1920s and 1930s -- their version of this conspiracy theory was called "cultural Bolshevism".
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  15. "In Spengler’s Prussian utopia, the workers can hence look forward to working even on Sunday. It need hardly be said that progressive taxation and political pressure to increase wages are detestable in Spengler’s eyes. He expends great energy in denouncing what he terms the current Lohndiktatur or Lohnbolschewismus (“wage-dictatorship” and “wage-bolshevism”) of the trade unions; similarly, in a 1924 lecture dedicated to the issue of taxation, he excoriates the imposition of taxes on the rich, which has become nothing short of a “question of life and death” (Spengler 1933c: 299). He there equates the “West-European taxation policies” with “dry Bolshevism, which threatens to level down everything which protrudes above the masses” (309). In terms difficult to tell apart from those of a stringent economic liberal, he concludes this address by pressing to eliminate the political-democratic administration of taxation and—looking ahead to such organizations as The World Trade Organization or The International Monetary Fund?—to entrust all decisions on such matters to economic experts, a “world conference of insiders to the economic life.” The more ‘just’ a tax is,” he avows, “the more unjust it is today. In the evaluation of such things the economy has the first word, not the jurist, the professional politician or the fiscal civil servant” (310)." Source: Ishay Landa, "Sorceror's Apprentice"
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  16. "From that time the trade unions of all countries undertook to exert increasing pressure to reduce the working day still more and to extend the rule to all wage-earners. Towards the end of the [19th] century the limit was nine hours, and at the end of the World War eight hours. Today, as we approach the middle of the 20th century, the forty-hour week is the minimum of the revolutionary demand. Since at the same time the ban on Sunday work is more strictly enforced, the individual worker delivers only half of the original, possible, and natural quantum of what he has to sell—namely, labour. . . . What profession would tolerate so slight an output? (Spengler 1980: 147–8)." Working more than 55 hours a week has been shown to be the greatest disease burden. The WHO estimates that there are nearly 8 hundred thousand excess deaths due to stroke and heart attack per year which are directly linked to working more than 55 hours. This Spengler maniac thought people should be working 80 hours and that rich people shouldn't be taxed. Even Adam Smith says that "working excessively for 4 days spoils the rest of the week".
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  17. Nazis were inspired by Oswald Spengler, who's basically a classical liberal. "Spengler's Prussian socialism was popular amongst the German political right, especially the revolutionary right who had distanced themselves from traditional conservatism. His notions of Prussian socialism influenced Nazism and the Conservative Revolutionary movement." "Historian Ishay Landa has described the nature of 'Prussian socialism' as decidedly capitalist. For Landa, Spengler strongly opposed labor strikes, trade unions, progressive taxation or any imposition of taxes on the rich, any shortening of the working day, as well as any form of government insurance for sickness, old age, accidents, or unemployment. At the same time as he rejected any social democratic provisions, Spengler celebrated private property, competition, imperialism, capital accumulation, and 'wealth, collected in few hands and among the ruling classes'. Landa describes Spengler's 'Prussian Socialism' as 'working a whole lot, for the absolute minimum, but — and this is a vital aspect — being happy about it.'"
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  18.  Belagerungsmörser the Sheep  False. Two German economic historians with doctorates writing in an economic journal that is peer-reviewed: "First, one has to keep in mind that Nazi ideology held entrepreneurship in high regard. Private property was considered a precondition to developing the creativity of members of the German race in the best interest of the people. Therefore, it is not astonishing that Otto Ohlendorf, an enthusiastic National Socialist and high-ranking SS officer, who since November 1943 held a top position in the Reich Economics Ministry, did not like Speer's system of industrial production at all. He strongly criticized the cartel-like organization of the war economy where groups of interested private parties exercised state power to the detriment of the small and medium entrepreneur. For the postwar period he therefore advocated a clear separation of the state from private enterprises with the former establishing a general framework for the activity of the latter. In his opinion it was the constant aim of National Socialist economic policy, 'to restrict as little as possible the creative activities of the individual. . . . Private property is the natural precondition to the development of personality. Only private property is able to further the continuous attachment to a certain work.'" "WAR ECONOMY WHERE GROUPS OF INTERESTED PRIVATE PARTIES EXERCISES STATE POWER" Capitalism.
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  19.  @theprinceofcrows8691  Well, the author of this video believes in a cultural Marxist conspiracy (which the Nazis called "cultural Bolshevism"), so it isn't at all surprising why he's so dishonest. He himself told me that Adam Tooze is a part of it.
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  20. "First, one has to keep in mind that Nazi ideology held entrepreneurship in high regard. Private property was considered a precondition to developing the creativity of members of the German race in the best interest of the people. Therefore, it is not astonishing that Otto Ohlendorf, an enthusiastic National Socialist and high-ranking SS officer, who since November 1943 held a top position in the Reich Economics Ministry, did not like Speer's system of industrial production at all. He strongly criticized the cartel-like organization of the war economy where groups of interested private parties exercised state power to the detriment of the small and medium entrepreneur. For the postwar period he therefore advocated a clear separation of the state from private enterprises with the former establishing a general framework for the activity of the latter. In his opinion it was the constant aim of National Socialist economic policy, 'to restrict as little as possible the creative activities of the individual. . . . Private property is the natural precondition to the development of personality. Only private property is able to further the continuous attachment to a certain work.'"
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  21. "At the February meeting, the I.G. Farben executives gave the Nazis 400,000 marks, and a total of 4.5 million marks by the end of 1933, according to 'The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben'. This infusion of corporate cash saved the Nazi Party from financial disaster. The rest, as they say, is history — tragic, tragic history."
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  22. The Industrielleneingabe (German: Industrial petition) was a petition signed by 19 representatives of industry, finance, and agriculture on November 19, 1932 that requested for German President Paul von Hindenburg to make Adolf Hitler the German Chancellor.
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  23.  @johnnonamegibbon3580  Himmler: "We came to the question: what to with the women and children? I decided to find a clear solution here as well. I did not consider myself justified to exterminate the men — that is, to kill them or have them killed — and allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their children to grow up. The difficult decision had to be taken to make this people disappear from the earth. For the organisation which had to execute this task, it was the most difficult which we had ever had. But it was accomplished, and without — I believe I can say — our men and their leaders suffering any mental or spiritual damage."
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  24.  @johnnonamegibbon3580  "Meldung an den Führer über Bandenbekämpfung" ("Report to the Führer on fighting against gangs") Nr. 51: "c) Jews executed 363,211" This report only covers a period of August through November of 1942 in one part of Nazi occupied areas (Southern Russia, Ukraine and the district of Bialystock) and is remarkable in the fact that it states without euphemisms what the Nazis are doing (written by Himmler for Hitler himself).
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  25. oscartang4587u3: "That is not “Cultural Marxism” at all. Do you even know what is the conspiracy of “Cultural Marxism” ? The perpetrator of “Cultural Marxism” is the Frankfurt School and their aims was to destroy the western transitional values, and the identity of white race and so on and so on. What you are quoting here are far from “Cultural Marxism”." LOL, illiterate TIK defenders parroting neo-Nazi conspiracies like he does. Could you be any more obvious?
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  26. TIK, can you make a video for your fans to explain to them which of the sources you've cited are a part of the cultural Marxist conspiracy theory? You know, the neo-Nazi conspiracy theory you believe in? I know you told me Adam Tooze is part of the conspiracy, but who else? Maybe Richard J. Evans, whose second book you fail to quote even though you quote his first book?
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  27. "only one capitalist funded Hitler prior to the seizure of power" - TIK "Their identity was a secret which was kept from all but the inner circle around the Leader. The party had to play both sides of the tracks. It had to allow Strasser, Goebbels and the crank Feder to beguile the masses with the cry that the National Socialists were truly 'socialists' and against the money barons. On the other hand, money to keep the party going had to be wheedled out of those who had an ample supply of it. Throughout the latter half of 1931, says Dietrich, Hitler 'traversed Germany from end to end, holding private interviews with prominent [business] personalities.' So hush-hush were some of these meetings that they had to be held 'in some lonely forest glade. Privacy,' explains Dietrich, 'was absolutely imperative; the press must have no chance of doing mischief. Success was the consequence.'" - William L. Shirer, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"
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  28. "German big business had still another reason for financing these armed bands. German imperialism, arriving on the scene too late, had failed to carve out a new division of the world by force of arms. The Versailles Treaty had robbed it of raw materials and vital industrial regions (Lorraine, Silesia, the Saar, etc.) as well as of its colonial empire. Germany had been forced to disarm and to pay to the victors, under guise of "reparations," the astronomical sum of 132 billion gold marks. The magnates of heavy industry pushed Germany into an aggressive and chauvinist foreign policy, (1) to recapture their lost markets, (2) to get rid of disarmament, which cut them off from a major source of profit, (3) to shake off the burden of reparations which weighed so heavily on their production costs. Acting over the head of the Reich government, they paid and armed gangs of war veterans and adventurers. In June 1919, for example, they sent the "Baltikum" corps, 50,000 strong, to fight in Lithuania against the Soviet army. In 1923, their "volunteer corps" resisted the French occupation of the Ruhr. The "Black Reichswehr"—as these different squadrons were called—was formed to transform the official "passive resistance" of big business to democratic gains into "active resistance." On September 25, 1923, all these "combat leagues" were merged into a single organization, at the head of which was put Adolf Hitler." Lol, Big Business was funding Hitler 10 years before he came to power. "Fascism and Big Business", Daniel Guerin, started in 1934 and finished in 1936... That must give it enormous weight!
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  29.  @johnnonamegibbon3580  "Their identity was a secret which was kept from all but the inner circle around the Leader. The party had to play both sides of the tracks. It had to allow Strasser, Goebbels and the crank Feder to beguile the masses with the cry that the National Socialists were truly 'socialists' and against the money barons. On the other hand, money to keep the party going had to be wheedled out of those who had an ample supply of it. Throughout the latter half of 1931, says Dietrich, Hitler 'traversed Germany from end to end, holding private interviews with prominent [business] personalities.' So hush-hush were some of these meetings that they had to be held 'in some lonely forest glade. Privacy,' explains Dietrich, 'was absolutely imperative; the press must have no chance of doing mischief. Success was the consequence.'" -- William L. Shirer, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" You're not fooling anyone, Nazi.
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  30. I guess you know better than the United States Holocaust Museum. "The Nazi Party was the radical far-right movement and political party led by Adolf Hitler. Its formal name was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP). Nazi ideology was racist, nationalist, and anti-democratic. It was violently antisemitic and anti-Marxist." I want you to say it. I want you to say: "Yes, I know better than the United States Holocaust Museum."
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  31. This video has already been countered. See r/badhistory for like half a dozen rebuttals. By the way, the uploader of this video unironically believes that North Korea is a democracy and that Kim Jong-Un's "mandate" stems "from the people". He also propagates cultural Marxism conspiracy theories, which were known in Nazi Germany as "cultural Bolshevism".
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  32.  Wulf  This coming from an actual Nazi coward on the internet. Psychological projection.
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  33. He's an ancap, or a neo-feudalist. Funny you should mention Hayek. "Well, I would say that, as long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power. As you will understand, it is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression — and this is valid for South America — is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government. And during this transition it may be necessary to maintain certain dictatorial powers, not as something permanent, but as a temporary arrangement." "Libertarians" aka, classical liberal frauds would rather have a fascist dictatorship with a liberal economy than a democracy without one.
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  34.  @peanutlover5998  "GROUPS OF INTERESTED PRIVATE PARTIES EXERCISES STATE POWER" Written by 2 German economic historians with PhDs, published in an economic journal and cited 76 times. TIK's video - cited 0 times and will never be cited. "First, one has to keep in mind that Nazi ideology held entrepreneurship in high regard. Private property was considered a precondition to developing the creativity of members of the German race in the best interest of the people. Therefore, it is not astonishing that Otto Ohlendorf, an enthusiastic National Socialist and high-ranking SS officer, who since November 1943 held a top position in the Reich Economics Minostry, did not like Speer's system of industrial production at all. He strongly criticized the cartel-like organization of the war economy where groups of interested private parties exercised state power to the detriment of the small and medium entrepreneur. For the postwar period he therefore advocated a clear separation of the state from private enterprises with the former establishing a general framework for the activity of the latter. In his opinion it was the constant aim of National Socialist economic policy, 'to restrict as little as possible the creative activities of the individual. . . . Private property is the natural precondition to the development of personality. Only private property is able to further the continuous attachment to a certain work.'" Otto Ohlendorf, an economist, was actually hanged in 1951 for his role in the Holocaust. Alas, he was a tru(tm) believer of capitalism.
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  35. "The Economist magazine introduced the term privatisation (alternatively privatisation or reprivatisation after the German Reprivatisierung) during the 1930s when it covered Nazi Germany's economic policy."
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  36. "The domestic agenda [in Nazi Germany] was one of authoritarian conservatism, with a pronounced distaste for parliamentary politics, high taxes, welfare spending and trade unions." - Adam Tooze, "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy" P.S. This is just one of the sources cited by the uploader which actually completely contradicts him. The uploader himself uncritically propagates Nazi fascist propaganda and their conspiracy theories - for example, he fully espouses the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, which was known in Nazi Germany as "cultural Bolshevism".
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  37.  @johnnonamegibbon3580  Nazi lies. "At the February meeting, the I.G. Farben executives gave the Nazis 400,000 marks, and a total of 4.5 million marks by the end of 1933, according to 'The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben'. This infusion of corporate cash saved the Nazi Party from financial disaster. The rest, as they say, is history — tragic, tragic history." Big business was planning a fascist coup in the US, also known as the "Business Plot". Big business ran a pro-Nazi newspaper in the US. Big business had to be stopped from financing the Nazis and trading with them - "Trading with the Enemy Act of 1939". Prescott Bush was supposed to serve as a liaison between Nazi Germany and the US after the fascist coup. Big business advocated for neutrality in WW2 right up until Germany declared war on the US. Stop lying. It's clear my knowledge far eclipses yours.
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  38. These kinds of labor reforms? "The labour movement was destroyed...[L]eaders of German business thrived in this authoritarian atmosphere. In the sphere of their own firms they were now the undisputed leaders, empowered as such by the national labour law of 1934. Owners and managers alike bought enthusiastically into the rhetoric of Fuehrertum. It meshed all too neatly with the concept of Unternehmertum (entrepreneurial leadership) that had become increasingly fashionable in business circles, as an ideological counterpoint to the interventionist tendencies of trade unions and the Weimar welfare state. In material terms, the consequences of demobilization made themselves felt in a shift in bargaining power in the workplace. In effect, the new regime froze wages and salaries at the level they had reached by the summer of 1933 and placed any future adjustment in the hands of regional trustees of labour... this [can be] taken as an unambiguous expression of business power, since the nominal wage levels prevailing after 1933 were far lower than those in 1929." - Adam Tooze, "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy"
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  39.  @TheImperatorKnight  “[T]he Protestant Church leadership of a good part of Germany - collectively, as a corporate group, and with the authority of their offices - on their own initiative implicitly endorsed the mass slaughter of Jews.” Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Vintage, 1997), p. 112. 7.
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  40.  @TheImperatorKnight  "I do agree with Christian moral teachings. But according to my opinion it is not necessary to belong to a church that uses power politics. I left the Evangelical Church because it and a great many of their ministers behaved un-Christianly during the war years of 1914-18. Both in word and writing they constantly called for a peace by force [continuing the war for better surrender terms], and they did that in the leading Christian circles. Also in this war you can observe the Church in Germany does not take a position about the terrible atrocities committed against the Jews." - Friedrich Kellner, "My Opposition", January 15, 1943
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  41.  @johnnonamegibbon3580  "I am talking about the 'Jewish evacuation': the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. 'The Jewish people is being exterminated,' every Party member will tell you, "perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, ha!, a small matter.'" -- Himmler, Posen, 1943. You can listen to the audio tapes on YouTube. Kid, I've been debunking Holocaust deniers for well over 15 years.
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  42. George Orwell: "For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism." Just like the left and right concurred in a very shallow notion that Trumpism is conservatism; it's actually fascism.
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  43.  @TheImperatorKnight  "From that time the trade unions of all countries undertook to exert increasing pressure to reduce the working day still more and to extend the rule to all wage-earners. Towards the end of the [19th] century the limit was nine hours, and at the end of the World War eight hours. Today, as we approach the middle of the 20th century, the forty-hour week is the minimum of the revolutionary demand. Since at the same time the ban on Sunday work is more strictly enforced, the individual worker delivers only half of the original, possible, and natural quantum of what he has to sell—namely, labour. . . . What profession would tolerate so slight an output? (Spengler 1980: 147–8)." No wonder every conservative and right-wing libertarian voted for Hitler's Enabling Act. You own this, so this is why you lie about it.
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  44. "Notice that Spengler’s vantage point is expressly that of “private economic enterprise” [privaten Wirtschaftsstrebens]. Vis-à-vis the workers, he is a classical economic liberal. To “intervene” in “the structure and meaning of economic life” is “brutal,” and there is no suggestion that such measures would be any less violent or vicious if initiated by the state." Ishay Landa, "Apprentice's Sorceror" page 61 Just another right-wing libertarian fraud, like yourself. "When libertarians talk about 'freedom' what they really mean is 'freedom' for private corporations to exploit the workers." - a real libertarian, Chomsky By the way, go into the spam settings and unmark my comments as I'm getting hit by the filter.
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  45.  @TheImperatorKnight  "The governments, everywhere in the world, have since 1916 become more and more rapidly dependent on them and are obliged to obey their orders if they do not wish to be overthrown. These brutal interventions in the structure and meaning of economic life they must either accept or carry out themselves. . . . The natural centre of gravity of the economic body, the economic judgment of the real experts, was replaced by an artificial, non-expert, party-political one. . . Have not the men with creative economic talents, those who sustain private economic enterprise, been sacrificed to this dictatorship . . .? (Spengler 1980: 145–6)." LOL Another classical liberal fraud. Course, they all voted for Hitler's Enabling Act. Just like all of the conservatives, who were right-wing. You're not going to fool anyone.
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  46. "Besides the NSDAP deputies, those of the German National People’s Party, the Centre, the Bavarian People’s Party, the German State Party, the Christian Social People’s Service (Christlich-Sozialer Volksdienst) – a Protestant party – the German Farmers’ Party (Deutsche Bauernpartei) and the German People’s Party all voted for the Enabling Act. Only the deputies from the Social Democratic Party of Germany voted en bloc against the bill, in spite of the massive intimidation by the SA and SS, whose troops had moved in to surround the Kroll Opera House, where the Reichstag was now meeting." Every single conservative and every single right-wing libertarian (read: classical liberal fraud) voted for Hitler to become a dictator at a time Hitler was throwing his political enemies in jail, exiling them and killing them. Individual freedom for me, but not for thee.
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  47. Ayn Rand argued that the Native Americans forfeited their property rights as they were "savages". (She said the same things about Palestinians and called Arabs "savages" and "primarily a nomadic culture".) No wonder Hitler and the Nazis were inspired by the Native American genocide. The Europeans killed millions of bison on which the Native American economy and their very survival depended upon and reduced their number down to <1000 in the 1890s. Nazis practiced a form of warfare known as "Vernichtungskrigeg" (or a war of annihilation) which was partly inspired by this... The Austrians practiced it in WWI against the Serbs and had concentration camps for them as well as for political prisoners and the Germans practiced it at the beginning of the 20th century when they committed the Herero and Namaqua genocide. The Partisan Order and the Barbarossa Decree echo the armies of Bismarck slaughtering French peasants indiscriminately during the War of 1870.
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  48. "Politicians from Germany’s AfD met extremist group to discuss deportation ‘masterplan’" - Guardian Look, Ma, the capitalists are at it again! The fascist party AfD (and you can call them fascists according to a ruling by a German court) just met with the representatives from the conservative CDU, the pro-business party FPD, neo-Nazis as well as several businessmen to discuss a plan to deport 2 million immigrants.
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  49. Economic and classical liberals have no problem with fascism: "It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history. But though its policy has brought salvation for the moment, it is not of the kind which could promise continued success. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error." That's why they tried to hide and obfuscate and revise history; that's why every single conservative and right-wing party in the Reichstag unanimously voted for Hitler's Enabling Act.
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  50.  @oscartang4587u3  "The domestic agenda was one of authoritarian conservatism, with a pronounced distaste for parliamentary politics, high taxes, welfare spending and trade unions. The international outlook of German business, on the other hand, was far more ‘liberal’ in flavour. Though German industry was by no means averse to tariffs, the Reich industrial association strongly favoured a system of uninhibited capital movement and multilateralism underpinned by Most Favoured Nation principles." - Adam Tooze, "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy" Corporate profitability in Nazi Germany shot up four times when comparing the years 1928 and 1938. Ibid.
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