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To: FredZarguna
He was also largely indifferent to economics.

From where do you get that?

This is documented in MANY, MANY places. Two that I can think of right off the top of my head are Shirer's classic book, and much more importantly, Speer says this several times in Inside the Third Reich. Now, much that Speer claims is self-serving nonsense [He did not know about the atrocities, etc., etc.] but concerning Hitler, the Party, and Hitler's beliefs he has no reason to lie.

By the time of Shirer and particularly Speer, Hitler had to take pragmatic stances concerning economic policy. Did he intend to return to his true roots once the short term expediencies of the war were behind him? It's hard to say with certainty. Publicly, he did speak of a future classless society. Privately, he spoke of a future society having strong central government and limited property rights but not as limited as communism.

But again, we don't need the testimony of a pinko journalist who lived in Germany throughout Hitler's rise and fall, nor one of Hitler's closest insiders for evidence, because his actions are clear: he did not advance any serious part of the NSDAP socialist economic program. Had he cared about it, he would have.

Because much of that depended on winning the war and as I already mentioned he had to be pragmatic in the short term.

I agree that he was unquestionably brave but there is plenty of 2nd party evidence that he had a messed up sexual identity.
Cite ONE REPUTABLE SOURCE.

Working backwards from the linked article, do you really believe the cited book The Hidden Hitler by Lothar Machtan is not reputable?

39 posted on 05/14/2014 1:59:21 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301
Do you really believe the cited book The Hidden Hitler by Lothar Machtan is not reputable?

Correct. I do not.

43 posted on 05/14/2014 3:23:01 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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