Sounds familiar…
The New York Times expressed astonishment that Hugenberg, an “arch-capitalist” who stood “in strongest discord with economic doctrines of the Nazi movement,” was suddenly in charge of the country’s finances. Hitler’s “socialist mask” had fallen, the Communist daily Red Banner proclaimed, arguing that “Hugenberg is in charge, not Hitler!” The weekly journal Die Weltbühne dubbed the new government “Hitler, Hugenberg & Co.”
As self-proclaimed “economic dictator,” Hugenberg kept pace with Hitler in outraging political opponents and much of the public. He purged ministries. He dismantled workers’ rights. He lowered the wages of his own employees by 10 percent.
Hugenberg didn’t care about bad press. He was accustomed to being one of the most unpopular personalities in the country.
Holy shit, that was like reading a piece about the current US political climate.
As one Hitler associate explained the Hitler-Hugenberg dynamic: “Hugenberg had everything but the masses; Hitler had everything but the money.”
Sounds eerily familiar no?
The scariest part of this article is how nonchalant business seemed to be about the new regime. “Pfizer now in forced clinical trials to cure blindness through new injection – ‘We expect to see our first survivor of the procedure any day now’”
Funny that the article doesn’t cover what happened to Ferdinand Porsche. Not a lot of consequences there.
One of those articles that conservatives everywhere should read. Alas, they’re too stupid and cowardly to self-reflect enough to admit wrong-doing. Now that the department of education is gone, soon they’ll just be too stupid to read.
