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To: Zhang Fei
Nazi Germany was too sympathetic to private enterprise for American leftists - their ideal was always state ownership of all productive enterprises and Nazi Germany was never going to be compatible with it.

Hitler only tolerated private enterprise to the point where it would help him build his war machine. A lot of Nazi rhetoric was as anti-capitalistic as the Soviet rhetoric was....Once the war was won, there is no question that the Nazis' next target for liquidation was to be the business class.

56 posted on 04/07/2013 11:25:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Hitler only tolerated private enterprise to the point where it would help him build his war machine. A lot of Nazi rhetoric was as anti-capitalistic as the Soviet rhetoric was....Once the war was won, there is no question that the Nazis' next target for liquidation was to be the business class.

It was all for show. Soviet leaders were paupers. Nazi leaders were very, very rich, and had lavish lifestyles. Their objectives were completely different. Fascism's objective was to conquer and enslave the world for the nation. Communism's objective was to conquer the world and kill all the rich people so that capital would finally reside where it belonged - in the hands of the working people.

58 posted on 04/07/2013 11:32:03 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: dfwgator
56 posted on 4/8/2013 1:25:50 AM by dfwgator: “Hitler only tolerated private enterprise to the point where it would help him build his war machine. A lot of Nazi rhetoric was as anti-capitalistic as the Soviet rhetoric was....Once the war was won, there is no question that the Nazis’ next target for liquidation was to be the business class.”

I'd like to see links to documentation. That could be helpful in rebutting those who consider Nazis to be “right wing” ultraconservatives.

I'm quite aware of the Nazi party's roots in socialism — after all, it was the National **SOCIALIST** Workers Party.

However, it does seem as if the purge of the SA (brownshirts) by the SS (blackshirts) reflected an underlying move by Hitler toward corporate “crony capitalism” on an Italian Fascist model, rather than the stronger socialist theme of the SA, or of Mussolini in his younger days. My impression is that Hitler himself changed his views on the role of businessmen as his Nazi Party became more successful, and especially after the German Communists and the Social Democrats were eliminated as political competitors for the loyalty of working-class Germans.

101 posted on 04/09/2013 4:32:02 PM PDT by darrellmaurina
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