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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Whither Are We Drifting? - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 14:14:54 EDT
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>> Whether or not the National Socialists are socialists: They
>> called themselves socialists, and the German government
>> apparently controlled the means of production, and ran it
>> "for the good of the people" (isn't that what socialism's all
>> about?). If these statements are true, then the Nazis
>> were socialists; if they are false, then the Nazis aren't
>> socialists.  Someone want to let me know how the Nazis really
>> behaved about property?

>> 	<mike

The Nazi government did not control private enterprise, although
it did provide plenty of slave labor.  It was industrial giants
like Krupp, Fritz Thissen, and I G Farben who bankrolled Hitler
from the beginning (how do you think they got those snazzy uniforms
and awe-inspiring rallies during the worst days of the depression?)
and who ran their companies completely unmolested,
before, during, and after the war.  Thissen wrote a book, "I Paid
Hitler," if you're interested in his perspective. 

No, the Nazi economy was a capitalist economy whose biggest wheels
have been doing "business as usual" come hell or high water.
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