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The SS were the corporate militia of I.G. Farben, "The Devil's Chemists" (took blame for losing WW1 because of taking 6 months too long to turn coal into gasoline, after turning air into gunpowder, Faber-Bosch Nitrogen Fixation Process; were looking for the man who became Hitler in 1923, to atone for losing WW1, started WW2 as a profit-making operation, started Auschwitz as a gasoline plant, only killing Jews as a sideline). When the Wehrmacht invaded Czechoslovakia in the Anschluss, the SS raced around them to the Skoda Werke chemical company, literally put a gun in the owner's mouth a pen...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany “urgently needed” extra affordable housing and used her weekly video podcast Saturday to reel off a series of steps — outlined last February as her coalition took shape — to get them built before the next federal elections in 2021. Simultaneously Saturday, the board chairman of Germany’s BA Labor Agency, Detlef Scheele, told Stuttgart-based SWR public broadcasting that affordable housing had become the “burning topic of our times.” More and more people were seeking second jobs to supplement their incomes, especially in Germany’s urban hubs, said Scheele Last year alone, Berlin property prices soared 20.5...