Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "Feli from Germany"
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To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised. The Nazis didn't dismantle the old Weimar State entirely and kept much of it's structures intact including a lot of it's laws. The Nazis were technically willing the work around the 'old system' while building their 'new state' slowly over time through Synchronization or Coordination, however you want to define Gleichschaltung. Unlike say Bolsheviks which would just rip everything down and start a new, basically believing a new foundation was necessary so the whole structure had to be torn down first.
So I wouldn't be surprised the post war transition from the Nazi's State would also see some of it's laws. Definitely being the Nazis were obsessed with welfare, health and social laws, some were not terrible laws either. So would have instituted a lot of positive laws alongside their nefarious ones.
I always viewed the Nazis like a "Racist" version of the Independent Socialist of 1919 from the Socialist split that happened that year, not Marxist but not Social Democrats either who they viewed as enemies.
13:55 not exactly true. They Nationalized Unions under the German Labor Front. That is a whole can of worms to talk about but. They didn't abolish Trade Unions, they just Nationalized Trade Unions into the "Party" ie the New State. They were even allowed to form Worker's Councils and every City technically had one of which would represent the local workforce within the DAF. Union's that refused to become part of the DAF were brutally crushed with most of their leaders put into prison. Basically not joining the DAF wasn't an option and they made it quite clear in 1933. DAF would eventually become the largest and most powerful organization within the Party itself, I think what 80+ Million members? More than the Party. It wasn't some side show like some historians try to claim either. It had real power within the Nazi State, and dictated wages, who could work where, and working conditions, etc. They'd even force business to build daycares, gyms and other facilities for their workers.. ironically most never had time to use them because they were often working 10-12 hour days. But who said Bureaucrats were smart?
Günter Reimann's book the Vampire Economy talks a lot about that period. Reimann paints a picture that business owners were actually terrified of the DAF. Being Reimann was a self proclaimed communist in hiding during the 1930s. I find it interesting that he would put so much into the Vampire Economy that makes the DAF look like it had absolute power over the business man. Reimann actually expresses a point often ignored about the Nazi's views on the economy in how the Nazis basically crushed the Private Sector, turned it into a servant of the Party. Reimann's book is the pre-war period as well btw. So you can not blame it on "War Economics."
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