Posted on 09/16/2013 7:05:52 AM PDT by SJackson
From the beginning of Germany's National Socialist period German industrial Conglomerates Krup, IG Farben, Flick KG, Bayer, Siemens, Daimler-Benz, Ford, and Robert Bosch were private corporations, conglomerates, and trusts which formed the basis of industrial production supporting Hitler's militarization. There was close coordination between these private industries and the Nazi Government. To coin a phrase, they were Germany's "Military Industrial Complex" and they were operated for profit under civilian direction supplying war material. After WWII several corporate directors were charged with "War Crimes" and were tried by the US Military at the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals". Charges were made against those using Slave labor, others were charged with providing funds to the Nazi government. (Winners get to write the rules...)
the government might temporarily allow you the benefits of ownership, but it could take it away at the drop of a hat.
That is true of every form of government, Communist, Fascism, Democratic, Constitutional Republic as well. If you don't believe me try not paying your property taxes. The USSC has decided that "Eminent Domain" extends to a municipality and allows it to seize your home to build a strip mall "for the common good" (increased tax base) don't cha know? Perhaps it would be more accurate to say "Any government might temporarily allow you the benefits of ownership, but it could take it away at the drop of a hat."
China most closely fits your definition of "Fascism."
I believe I explicitly said that in my original post...
Regards,
GtG
What do you think would have wound up happening to those industrialists once Germany won the war?
Most likely they were going to share the same fate as the Jews, once their services were no longer required. Hitler only tolerated them because he needed them to build his war machine in short order.
What I wrote was factual, your retort is speculation.
Here is my speculation on the matter of what was to become of the industrialists, the lion's share of them were born of German parents and raised and educated in Germany. Hitler's madness to cleanse Germany of Jews extended to Europe and the rest of the world, he had no problem accepting as citizens Germans who were not blonde blue eyed 6'4" specimens of Aryan superiority, he was a huge fan of Margaret Sanger's eugenics movement. Hitler also presented Henry Ford with The Grand Cross of the German Eagle, Germany's highest civilian award, neither Sanger nor Ford were German. The Industrialists were powerful in their own write and I suspect hypotheticaly that as long they remained supportive of Nazi policy he would have used them to build his "Greater Germany". Call it Crony Natzism which is not unlike Crony Capitalism...
Jews were slaughtered as a matter of antisemitic policy which was and continues to be an evil shared to some degree by every country except Israel. The list of "untermenschen" to be "eliminated" includes Jews, Roma (Gypsies), non-Europeans, and Slavic peoples such as Poles, Serbs, Russians, Czechs, and Slovaks. Later mentally ill, chronically ill, & congenitally crippled were added to the list of persons considered genetically defective and a financial burden to society and thus subject to euthanasia. Note that the later class of victims were selected under the precepts of eugenics not racial identity per se, mentally ill Germans were also murdered under this rationalization. A fascinating example of Teutonic single mindedness following orders, perhaps Nazism would have eventually exterminated itself!
Regards,
GtG
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