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Nice try zio-cuck. I never said he wasn't a socialist (I referred to "communism")... and I knew that he admitted being a socialist.
"A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort, or efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false.” - Adolf Hitler Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77649719 Nice try. Hitler and his Third Reich used the heavy hand of the government to force small Jwish businesses, and others, out of existence in order to accommodate the wishes and whims of der Fuhrer. Claiming his small fragments of awareness of the harsh reality of civilizations somehow concealed his true nature is similar to claiming leftwing biases in humans come from their better angels. And that's why Germany didn't flourish for most of the years that Hitler was in charge. /s Right? • “Hitler’s achievements, domestic rather than foreign, during the six (peacetime) years of his leadership of Germany were extraordinary... He brought prosperity and confidence to the Germans, the kind of prosperity that is the result of confidence. The thirties, after 1933, were sunny years for most Germans; something that remained in the memories of an entire generation among them.” - John Lukacs, 'The Hitler of History' - 1997• "Among these positive achievements of Hitler the one outshining all others was his economic miracle... In January 1933, when Hitler became Reich Chancellor, there were six million unemployed in Germany. A mere three years later, in 1936, there was full employment. Crying need and mass hardship had generally turned into modest but comfortable prosperity."
"Almost equally important: helplessness and hopelessness had given way to confidence and self-assurance. Even more miraculous was the fact that the transition from depression to economic boom had been accomplished without inflation, at totally stable wages and prices. Not even Ludwig Erhard succeeded in doing that later in post-war Western Germany." - Sebastian Haffner, 'The Meaning of Hitler' - 1979• “The elimination of unemployment in Germany during the Great Depression without inflation -- and with initial reliance on essential civilian activities -- was a signal accomplishment. It has rarely been praised and not much remarked. The notion that Hitler could do no good extends to his economics as it does, more plausibly, to all else.”
“large scale borrowing for public expenditures, and at first this was principally for civilian work -- railroads, canals and the Autobahnen (highway network). The result was a far more effective attack on unemployment than in any other industrial country.”
“By late 1935 unemployment was at an end in Germany. By 1936 high income was pulling up prices or making it possible to raise them… Germany, by the late thirties, had full employment at stable prices. It was, in the industrial world, an absolutely unique achievement.”
“Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fears would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.” - J. K. Galbraith, quotes from 1973-1977• "After taking power Hitler and his new government immediately launched an all-out assault on unemployment… They stimulated private industry through subsidies and tax rebates, encouraged consumer spending by such means as marriage loans, and plunged into the massive public-works program that produced the autobahn (highway system), and housing, railroad and navigation projects.” - John A. Garraty, 'The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression' - 1973• “Germany’s economic recovery, which was complete by 1936, did not rest on rearmament; it was caused mainly by lavish expenditure on public works, particularly on motor roads, and this public spending stimulated private spending. Hitler actually skimped on armaments, despite his boasting, partly because he wished to avoid the unpopularity which a reduction of the German standard of living would cause, but more from the confident belief that he would always succeed in bluff. Thus, paradoxically, while nearly everyone else in Europe expected a great war, Hitler was the one man who neither expected nor planned for it.” - A. J. P. Taylor• "The Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, at a time when its economy was in total collapse, with ruinous war-reparation obligations and zero prospects for foreign investment or credit. Yet through an independent monetary policy of sovereign credit and a full-employment public-works program, the Third Reich was able to turn a bankrupt Germany, stripped of overseas colonies it could exploit, into the strongest economy in Europe within four years, even before armament spending began. - Henry C.K. Liu, 'Nazism and the German Economic Miracle'• "Germany financed its entire government and war operations from 1935 to 1945 without gold and without debt, and it took the whole Capitalist and Communist world to destroy the German power over Europe and bring Europe back under the heel of the bankers. Such history of money does not even appear in the textbooks of public (government) schools today." - Sheldon Emry, 'Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People' - 1984-
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