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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: The Shame of the President:the Last and Next Holocaust
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 00:12:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 00:12:00 1985
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>/* gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) / 11:07 am  May  1, 1985 */

>>>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.

>> 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.

The question was not "how did they promote him?", but rather "how
could they be considered responsible for his election, given that
so man people voted for him?"

					Michael Sykora