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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: The Shame of the President:the Last and Next Holocaust
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 11:07:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 11:07:46 1985
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[The original statement]
> >> By the way, can we all stop using that misleading abbreviation
> >> "Nazi"?  It's short for "National Socialist" in German, and a
> >> lot of modern day socialists would like for people to forget what
> >> Hitler's economic policies were all about...

[My response]
>>Don't reactionaries ever tire of this drivel?  Capitalism prospered
>>under Hitler because capitalists, fearful of a revolution, put him
>>in power.  Hitler's economic policies were "business as usual" for
>>the barons of German industry--some of whom are still doing quite
>>well.

[Now Sykora says]
> I suppose this would be news to those Jewish merchants whose
> businesses were destroyed or confiscated by the Nazis.

Read what I wrote--"the barons of German industry".  You know,
Fritz Thissen, I. G. Farben, Krupp, et al.

> Since the Nazis received such a large percentage of the popular vote
> in Germany, how did the "capitalists" put him in power.

Easy--they bankrolled him.  Or didn't you ever wonder how the Nazis
were able to stage such grand and smartly uniformed rallies in the
midst of a depression?  They were also quite influential when it
came time to nominate a new chancellor.

> It is clear from your statements that you are ignorant of these
> matters.  They were dealt with in the mainstream media (NY Times,
> etc.)  - no friends of Laissez Faire  -  recently, and it was found
> that big businesses did not
> support the Nazis until it became apparent that they were going to be
> in charge.
> 						Michael Sykora

Hitler had friends in high places from the beginning.  Read Fritz
Thissen's "I Paid Hitler".  It was not clear Hitler was going to be
in charge--the Nazis never had even close to majority support--but
the country was in chaos, and the capitalists feared that the
socialists--far more popular than the Nazis--would gain control.
It is true that most capitalists were reluctant to back an obvious
lunatic, and did so only when there seemed to be no other option.
But they did it anyway--which was my point.
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