Reddit reviews The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Rise and Fall of The Third Reich is a really great book. The narrator is brilliant, I'm listening to it on Audible. He also narrated King's The Stand.

When all their debts are called in.

They fucked the german people with all these special payment systems. The Volkswagen was a pretty typical example. Citizens were paying towards this 5 year scheme that would allow them to get a car at the end of it. Except all the money was being spent on arms.

Also they issued special bonds to factories that promised them repayment (presumably "after" the war).

It was all an enormous gamble that relied on them winning the War, US and UK not getting involved and then them crushing Russia.

Anyone who claims Hitler and his cronies were financial geniuses who managed to save Germany from the Versailles treaty are ignorant at best, but more than likely they are nazis themselves.

Highly recommend this book if ever you want to beat one of these Nazi apologists down with actual facts, names, dates.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-William-L-Shirer/0099421763

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust

These were run by the same people as pre-Nazi times. They were close to the Nazis due to cooperation not coercion. Even Peugeot was allowed to keep his factories after the invasion of France. This is very unlike the USSR and any socialist principles whatsoever.

So you’re saying the stamping out of pro-socialist organisation proves that the Third Reich was socialist? You’ve also ignored the NEP and Stakhanovite movement.

Also point to me where Marx says that workers should be oppressed by their government.

You seem to be basing your argument off of the USSR a lot despite huge differences (Central planning, the system of politics, etc all very different) and the fact that they had to invent the term “Marxist-Leninism” to describe the USSR’s system.

Then how exactly is the German Reich socialist when it doesn’t at all follow socialist principle and only barely follows socialist practice?

I love the part where the Reich was so socialist it invaded the USSR and killed millions of Slavs.

The 3 you list about the economy are wrong. They didn’t have control they had cooperation. Businessmen kept their companies and in return for making tanks and planes - WHICH THE NAZI GOVERNMENT PAID FOR - they were allowed to deny workers rights.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Third-Reich-William-Shirer/dp/0099421763/ref=nodl_

If you want to at all educate yourself I recommend this. Hitler had absolutely no interest in economics whatsoever and totally misdefined socialism. What Hitler implemented was not socialist in the slightest and not only because big businesses were still run privately

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Third-Reich-William-Shirer/dp/0099421763

Shirer was an American journalist based in Germany during the last years of the Weimar Republic and the first 8 years of the Nazi Government. I read it 30 years ago and have read a load of others since, but it's a good starting point.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Third-Reich-William-Shirer/dp/0099421763

or even better yet your best local independent bookseller.

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