He stayed in the background, increased his party influence, invaded other countries, oppressed the race of which he claims had done wrong to his people, and made himself a God amongst men. The only problem was that it was nazism that was his driving ideological force and nazism is pretty bad, let's be real here. I mean, you'd have to be a fucking idiot, absolutely RETARDED to support Hitler or any breakoff ideology of nazism, but what do I know?
I disagree, you just have to be desperate. Hyperinflation, the great depression, the normalization of underage prostitution to the point you would know members of your family who were involved. I think more people than you think would join out of blind deperation and then slowly wake up to the horror too late. There was a Reichstag election 1930 where the Social Democratic Party of Germany had 29.8% of the seats to Hitler's 2.6%, then Hitler just started climbing as Hindenburg started ruling by emergency powers alone and the SPD plummeted because they couldn't form a government. The politics of the Wiemar Republic are so strange it would take hours to explain them.
If Hitler died in early 1939 and Germany didn't start WWII he'd unironically be considered one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century and the only problem people would have with Nazism is that Hitler was rude to the Jews (you know, just like the majority of Europe like Poland was). Okay, sure, Hitler's economic recovery was a bubble that needed a war and looting to be sustained but when the bubble bursts it's because Hitler's successors weren't as good at economics as he was.
This is so frighteningly true, Germany would have been huge compared to its 1990 form too
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He probably would have been treated like Lenin in the USSR, and however replaced him would definitely acted like Stalin and purged until they died. Afterward though, depending on the geopolitics Germany probably would have shrunk to about 1990 size anyway. Probably for the best, Peaceful Nazis probably would have acquired the atomic bomb.
The only problem was that HE LOST THE WAR HE STARTED. Hitler didn't pay enough attention to the logistics on the Eastern Front and was kind of a dick to his generals so they got to blame all their mistakes on him.
50% of the Tiger tanks lost were abandoned after transmission and engine issues not enemy action. Every opposing force used a perfectly fine 76mm high velocity anti-tank gun, and the maximum size of their tanks reflected this. Hitler wanted his 88 and his tigers. The Pak 42 was the largest gun he needed, but he wanted bigger everything.
The tank corps rode far in advance of the infantry until they became worn out by logistical bottlenecks and battle, and the workers who were supposed to be in the factories supplying them with replacement parts were conscripted for the infantry as Russia was only going to be a 6-8 month war.
Not to even touch on the foolishness of setting the common people against you, their racism lost them the war all on its own. They couldn't defeat the partisans because they already used horror on them, there was no escalation from casual rape and genocide that you inflict to get them to stop.
The movie Come and See (1985) is something else
No, Totalitarianism is not an inherently stable political system. Having national policy depend entirely on a single individual's whims and decisions is inherently a recipe for disastrously bad policy-making, corruption, and political instability when the retard-in-chief dies with no clear successor.
Hitler couldn't figure out what to do after 1940, the British wouldn't leave the war and he assumed Stalin and Roosevelt were the reason why. His paranoia completely unraveled whatever he had gained. Yugoslavia notwithstanding, there was never going to be a victory after France, the Austrian Corporal never thought past that point. He couldn't think of how to end the war without capitulating.
From my understanding, the Nazis privatized several industries such as banking, transportation infrastructure, and shipping so they boosted entrepreneurial growth in the economy. They took in taxes from the common folk for public infrastructure works such as the Autobahn and Volkswagen. But a lot of it was deficit spending and deceptive bookkeeping so that the rest of the world was unaware that Germany was rearming itself. So much of Germany's economic growth was the military build-up and other industrial developments.
That deficit was going to be paid back from plundering the conquered territory, or at least that is what ended up happening, but not at the amount needed to pay back the deficit in full. Hitler is quoted as saying that one of the strengths of the Nazi party is that they have no economic theory, which is like saying I am going to be financial stable by not making a budget.
Hjalmar Schacht was responsible for most of that. In August 1934 Hitler appointed Schacht as Germany's
Reichsminister of Economics. Schacht supported public-works programs, most notably the construction of
autobahnen (highways) to attempt to alleviate unemployment – policies which had been instituted in Germany by
von Schleicher's government in late 1932, and had in turn influenced Roosevelt's
policies. He also introduced the "New Plan", Germany's attempt to achieve economic "
autarky", in September 1934. Germany had accrued a massive foreign currency deficit during the Great Depression, which continued into the early years of the Third Reich. Schacht negotiated several trade agreements with countries in South America and southeastern Europe, under which Germany would continue to receive raw materials, but would pay in Reichsmarks. This ensured that the deficit would not get any worse, while allowing the German government to deal with the gap which had already developed. Schacht also found an innovative solution to the problem of the government deficit by using
MEFO bills.
He was appointed General
Plenipotentiary for the War Economy in May 1935 by provision of the Reich Defense Law of 21 May 1935 and was awarded honorary membership in the NSDAP and the
Golden Party Badge in January 1937. During the economic crisis of 1935–36, Schacht, together with the Price Commissioner Dr.
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, helped lead the "free-market" faction in the German government. They urged Hitler to reduce military spending, turn away from autarkic and protectionist policies, and reduce state control in the economy. Schacht and Goerdeler were opposed by a faction centering on Hermann Göring. Göring was appointed "Plenipotentiary for the
Four Year Plan" on 18 October 1936, with broad powers that conflicted with Schacht's authority.
Schacht objected to continued high military spending, which he believed would cause inflation, thus coming into conflict with Hitler and Göring. In 1937 Schacht met with Chinese Finance Minister Dr.
H. H. Kung. Schacht told him that "German-Chinese friendship stemmed in good part from the hard struggle of both for independence". Kung said, "China considers Germany its best friend ... I hope and wish that Germany will participate in supporting the further development of China, the opening up of its sources of raw materials, the upbuilding of its industries and means of transportation." In November 1937 he resigned as
Reichsminister of Economics and General Plenipotentiary at both his and Göring's request. He had grown increasingly dissatisfied with Göring's near-total ignorance of economics, and was also concerned that Germany was coming close to bankruptcy.
The only thing Hjalmar didn't do was SS-Oberführer Porsche's
SS Sturmwerk Volkswagen that was all Ferdinand Porsche.
They got rid of rothschild bankers, lol.
They fixed their weak currency with a new kind of labourbacked bond. Huge infrastructure works that employed massive amounts of people (like building freeways).
And as it was infrastructure and not some "keep em busy" jobs, it was great for the economy too.
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The way currency is set up basicly is how it's possible to siphon money without too many people noticing. The reason that each time a country leader wants to set up some kind of alternate currency, like Saddam with oil euro, or ghaddafi with gold backing and why they get crushed so quickly, is because that's the prime system of control that has to be defended (not democracy or christianity or freedom).
If you wonder how wildly succesful a non-controlled currency is, look at how bitcoin, an unbacked, low liquidity, exorbitant fee currency is doing.
After the collapse of the Bretton Woods gold standard in the early 1970s, the United States struck a deal with Saudi Arabia to standardize oil prices in dollar terms. Through this deal, the petrodollar system was born, along with a shift away from pegged exchanged rates and gold-backed currencies to non-backed, floating rate regimes.
America no longer made the world's products, but it was the world's reserve currency since the energy industry ran on it. Once you are the world's reserve currency, you have to murder the absolute shit out of anyone screwing you out of your seat. America will never willingly lose the petrodollar. It will murder you if you so much as think about undermining it.
I don't think there was anything very special about the man to be honest. We tend to lend a lot of credit and blame to the person on top.
The situation was do dire, and the man so confidant. That was his charisma, he spoke about what people wanted to hear and they trusted him for it. That was it, you would be amazed what the one man in the room who empathizes with you can get you to do.
Honestly looking back I'm still surprised the communist coup failed because people would have been just as susceptable to their radical rhetoric as that of the nazi party.
Ha, no. The uprising was primarily a power struggle between the moderate
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) led by Friedrich Ebert and the radical communists of the
Communist Party of Germany (KPD), led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. The Social Democrats supported the Freikorp putting their rivals down.
Leftist always fall into the familiar pattern of intense competition among factions that appears, to an outsider, to be over ideological distinctions so small as to be invisible, thus portraying the phenomenon of the
narcissism of small differences. The People's Front of Judea hates the Judean People's Front, the Campaign for a Free Galilee, and the Judean Popular Front after all.
It was the same during the
Spanish Civil War. The communists tried to kill George Orwell during the whole affair, he wrote about it under his real name in
Homage to Catalonia. Leftists are always infighting!
The issue is the man tried taking on the entire dammed planet. I don't know what he expected? Even under the best outcome of a fascist Britain, and a boot through the rotten structure of the USSR, Hitler probably couldn't have won. A fascist Britain wouldn't be Hitlers friend, they would be the British Empire but fascist. They'd more likely be the Japanese allies due to WW1 alliances.
Even if the H man managed to beat the USSR, keep the British off his ass, stop America from intervening and secured Europe then five or ten years down the line there would probably have been internal civil wars that would have broken the Greater Reich apart.
Or not, I don't have a time machine, maybe if Uncle Adolf managed to beat the world he could hold onto it. Doubt it though.
Mosley liked Mussolini, I imagine it would have went poorly for Hitler but maybe more for England had Italy sided with the allies.
