It is a shame Hitler abandoned the economic doctrines against "interest
slavery" of Gottfried Feder -- he kept the ""outward racism"
(although he was always working with Zionists, Zionist Bankers and Industrialists,
the German General Staff) and he moved to corporate monopoly capitalism
(essentially privatized state-socialist apparatus -- big finance, big business,
without competition or disbursed ownership and control of the means of production.)
Hitler killed his populist supporters who were attracted to Feder's economics
against "interest slavery" -- going forGerman supremacism to counter
Jewish supremacism (a big mistake) and taking money from the men who ultimately
changed his revolution from Feder to "Bush-Clinton"-style privatized
state war corporatism.-- Dick Eastman http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERfeder.htm
Gottfried Feder, the son of a government official,
was born in Wurzburg, Germany, on 27th January, 1883. He studied engineering
in Berlin and Zurich before starting his own construction company in 1908.
During the First World War Feder developed a hostility to Germany's
wealthy bankers and in 1919 he published his Manifesto on Breaking the Shackles of Interest.
In 1919 Feder joined with Anton Drexler and Dietrich Eckart to form the German Workers's Party
(GPW) in Munich. Adolf
Hitler joined the party soon afterwards. He was only the fifty-fourth
person to join the party. Hitler was immediately asked to join the executive
committee and was later appointed the party's propaganda manager.
In the next few weeks Hitler brought several members of his army into the
party, including one of his commanding officers, Captain Ernst Roehm. The arrival of Roehm was an important development
as he had access to the army political fund and was able to transfer some
of the money into the GWP.
The German Workers's Party used some
of this money to advertise their meetings. Adolf Hitler was often the main speaker and it was during
this period that he developed the techniques that made him into such a persuasive
orator.
Hitler successfully persuaded members of the GWP should change its name
to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). In February
1920, Feder joined with Hitler and Drexler to draft what became known as
the "25 Points". In the programme the party refused to accept
the terms of the Versailles Treaty and called for the reunification of
all German people. To reinforce their ideas on nationalism, equal rights
were only to be given to German citizens. "Foreigners" and "aliens"
would be denied these rights.
To appeal to the working class and socialists, the programme included several
measures that would redistribute income and war profits, profit-sharing
in large industries, nationalization of trusts, increases in old-age pensions
and free education.
The programme was also reflected the racist views shared by party members.
It appealed to the Anti-Semitism that existed in Germany at that time by
stating that "Citizenship is to be determined by race; no Jew to be
a German."
Feder greatly influenced the anti-capitalist aspect of the Nazi programme
and insisted on phrases such as the need to "break the interest slavery
of international capitalism" and the claim that Germany had become
the "slave of the international stock market".
On 24th February, 1920, the NSDAP (later nicknamed the Nazi Party) held a mass rally where it announced its
new programme. The rally was attended by over 2,000 people, a great improvement
on the 25 people who were at Hitler's first party meeting.
Feder published his book, National
and Social Bases of the German State in 1920. In
1923 Feder took part in the Beer
Hall Putsch. He remained one of the leaders of
the party and in 1924 was elected to the Reichstag.
Throughout the 1920s Feder was a leader of the anti-capitalist wing of the
Nazi
Party. He put forward his views in
Das Programm der NSDAP (1931), Kampf gegen die Hochfinannz (1933) and Die Juden (1933) where
he expressed his anti-semitic views.
As Feder held the important post of
chairman of the party's economic council, his anti-capitalist views led
to a decline in financial support from Germany's major industrialists. After
pressure from figures such as Albert Voegler, Gustav Krupp, Friedrich Flick, Fritz Thyssen, Hjalmar Schacht and Emile Kirdorf, Hitler decided to move the party away
Feder's left-wing economic theories.
When Adolf
Hitler became chancellor in 1933 he appointed Feder as Under-Secretary
at the Ministry of Economics. Feder was disappointed that he had not been
given a more senior position. However, as one of the leaders of the left-wing
of the Nazi
Party, Hitler saw him as a threat to his leadership.
After the Night of the Long Knives where other left-wingers such
as Gregor Strasser and Ernst Roehm were murdered, Feder resigned from the government.
Gottfried Feder worked as a university lecturer until his death on 24th
September, 1941.
Comment
r.vonderwerth@email.de
Hitler's Monetary System
It is well known that Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and Errrol Flynn (was
he not from Tasmania?) among other prominent people in USA and GB supported
Germany for evident reasons. (In fact, the enormous German-American community
and the great majority of all Americans fiercely opposed entering WWII against
Germany. -ed)
To bad, that the US
and GB governments did not follow these extraordinary men.
Nevertheless:
The US and its praised economical system have created a bankrupt nation
with unimaginable depts of several trillions of Dollars to this day.
The US is bankrupt and present day Germany as satellite of USA is bankrupt,
too ( The German-quisling- governments starting 1947 have created a natinal
dept of 1,5 trillion! (One trillion is a one and twelve zeros = thirteen
digits! How many digits does your annual income have?)
We, the people of both nations should unite to punish the culprits! The
average German and American citizens are the losers of this vicious game.
We are losing our savings, our homes, our social existence!
Mit freundlichen Grºüen
Rudolf von der Werth
Comment
Fantastic! This is the flip side of the criminally usurious Jewish monetary
system... WORK IS MONEY!
Hitler's Monetary System
By Megumi Yamanaka
7-14-7
http://rense.com/general77/hitn.htm
"We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency coverage of
gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required
the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced. . . .we
laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of
a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of
a state bank." -Adolf Hitler, 1937 (CC Veith, Citadels of Chaos, Meador,
1949.) "And it proved sound. It worked. In less than ten years Germany
became easily the most powerful state in Europe. It worked so magically
and magnificently that it sounded the death knell of the entire (Zionist)
Jewish money system. World Jewry knew that they had to destroy Hitler's
system, by whatever means might prove necessary, or their own [system of
usury] would necessarily die. And if it died, with it must die their dream
and their hope of making themselves masters of the world. The primary issue
over which World War II was fought was to determine which money system was
to survive. At bottom it was not a war between Germany and the so-called
allies. Primarily it was war to the death between Germany and the International
Money Power." --William Gayley Simpson, 'Which Way Western Man' (p.642)
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In 1919, Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart formed the German Worker's Party (GPW) in Munich. The German Army was worried that it was a left-wing revolutionary
group and sent Adolf
Hitler, one of its education officers, to spy on the organization. Hitler
discovered that the party's political ideas were similar to his own. He
approved of Drexler's German nationalism and anti-Semitism but was unimpressed
with the way the party was organized. Although there as a spy, Hitler could
not restrain himself when a member made a point he disagreed with, and he
stood up and made a passionate speech on the subject.
Anton Drexler was impressed with Hitler's abilities
as an orator and invited him to join the party. At first Hitler was reluctant,
but urged on by his commanding officer, Captain Karl Mayr, he eventually
agreed. He was only the fifty-fourth person to join theGerman Worker's Party. Hitler was immediately asked
to join the executive committee and was later appointed the party's propaganda
manager.
In the next few weeks Hitler brought
several members of his army into the party, including one of his commanding
officers, Captain Ernst
Roehm. The arrival of Roehm was an important development as he had access
to the army political fund and was able to transfer some of the money into
the GWP.
The German Worker's Party used some of this money to advertise
their meetings. Adolf
Hitler was often the main speaker and it was during this period that
he developed the techniques that made him into such a persuasive orator.
Hitler's reputation as an orator grew and it soon became clear that he was
the main reason why people were joining the party. This gave Hitler tremendous
power within the organization as they knew they could not afford to lose
him.
In April, 1920, Hitler advocated that
the party should change its name to the National Socialist German Workers
Party (NSDAP). Hitler had always been hostile to socialist ideas, especially
those that involved racial or sexual equality. However, socialism was a
popular political philosophy in Germany after the First World War. This was reflected in the growth in
the German Social Democrat Party (SDP), the largest political
party in Germany.
Hitler, therefore redefined socialism
by placing the word 'National' before it. He claimed he was only in favour
of equality for those who had "German blood".
Jews and other "aliens" would lose their rights
of citizenship, and immigration of non-Germans should be brought to an end.
In February 1920, the NSDAP published
its first programme which became known as the "Twenty-Five Points".
In the programme the party refused to accept the terms of the Versailles Treaty and called for the reunification of
all German people. To reinforce their ideas on nationalism, equal rights
were only to be given to German citizens. "Foreigners" and "aliens"
would be denied these rights.
To appeal to the working class and
socialists, the programme included several measures that would redistribute
income and war profits, profit-sharing in large industries, nationalization
of trusts, increases in old-age pensions and free education.
On 24th February, 1920, the NSDAP (later nicknamed the Nazi Party) held
a mass rally where it announced its new programme. The rally was attended
by over 2,000 people, a great improvement on the 25 people who were at Hitler's
first party meeting.
Adolf
Hitler knew that the growth in the party was mainly due to his skills
as an orator and in the autumn of 1921 he challenged
Anton Drexler for the leadership of the party. After
brief resistance Drexler accepted the inevitable, and Hitler became the
new leader of the organization.
Hitler's ability to arouse in his supporters
emotions of anger and hate often resulted in their committing acts of violence.
In September 1921, Hitler was sent to prison for three months for being
part of a mob who beat up a rival politician.
When Hitler was released, he formed his own private army called Sturm Abteilung (Storm Section). The SA (also known
as stormtroopers or brownshirts) were instructed to disrupt the meetings
of political opponents and to protect Hitler from revenge attacks. Captain Ernst Roehm of the Bavarian Army played an important
role in recruiting these men, and Hermann Goering, a former air-force pilot, became their leader.
Hitler's stormtroopers were often former
members of the Freikorps
(right-wing private armies who flourished during the period that followed
the First World War) and had considerable experience in
using violence against their rivals.
The SA wore grey jackets, brown shirts (khaki shirts originally
intended for soldiers in Africa but purchased in bulk from the German Army by the Nazi Party), swastika armbands, ski-caps,
knee-breeches, thick woolen socks and combat boots. Accompanied by bands
of musicians and carrying swastika flags, they would parade through the
streets of Munich. At the end of the march Hitler would make one of his
passionate speeches that encouraged his supporters to carry out acts of
violence against Jews
and his left-wing political opponents.
As this violence was often directed
against Socialists and Communists, the local right-wing Bavarian government
did not take action against the Nazi Party. However, the national government
in Berlin were concerned and passed a "Law for the Protection of the
Republic". Hitler's response was to organize a rally attended by 40,000
people. At the meeting Hitler called for the overthrow of the German government
and even suggested that its leaders should be executed.
On 8th November, 1923, the Bavarian
government held a meeting of about 3,000 officials. While
Gustav von Kahr, the leader of the Bavarian government
was making a speech, Adolf
Hitler and armed stormtroopers entering the building. Hitler jumped
onto a table, fired two shots in the air and told the audience that the Beer Hall Putsch was taking place and the National Revolution
had began.
Leaving Hermann Goering and the SA to guard the 3,000 officials, Hitler took Gustav von Kahr, Otto von Lossow, the commander of the
Bavarian Army and Hans von Lossow, the commandant of the Bavarian State
Police into an adjoining room. Hitler told the men that he was to be the
new leader of Germany and offered them posts in his new government. Aware
that this would be an act of high treason, the three men were initially
reluctant to agree to this offer. Hitler was furious and threatened to shoot
them and then commit suicide: "I have three bullets for you, gentlemen,
and one for me!" After this the three men agreed.
Soon afterwards Eric Ludendorff arrived. Ludendorff had been leader
of the German Army at the end of the First World War. He had therefore found Hitler's claim
that the war had not been lost by the army but by Jews, Socialists, Communists
and the German government, attractive, and was a strong supporter of the
Nazi
Party. Ludendorff agreed to become head of the the German Army in Hitler's
government.
While Hitler had been appointing government ministers, Ernst Roehm, leading a group of stormtroopers, had seized
the War Ministry and Rudolf Hess was arranging the arrest of Jews and left-wing
political leaders in Bavaria.
Hitler now planned to march on Berlin and remove the national government.
Surprisingly, Hitler had not arranged for the stormtroopers to take control
of the radio stations and the telegraph offices. This meant that the national
government in Berlin soon heard about Hitler's putsch and gave orders for
it to be crushed.
The next day Adolf Hitler, Eric Ludendorff, Hermann Goering and 3,000 armed supporters of the Nazi
Party marched through Munich in an attempt to join up with Roehm's forces
at the War Ministry. At Odensplatz they found the road blocked by the Munich
police. As they refused to stop, the police fired into the ground in front
of the marchers. The stormtroopers returned the fire and during the next
few minutes 21 people were killed and another hundred were wounded, included
Goering.
When the firing started Adolf Hitler threw himself to the ground dislocating
his shoulder. Hitler lost his nerve and ran to a nearby car. Although the
police were outnumbered, the Nazis followed their leader's example and ran
away. Only Eric Ludendorff and his adjutant continued walking towards
the police. Later Nazi historians were to claim that the reason Hitler left
the scene so quickly was because he had to rush an injured young boy to
the local hospital.
After hiding in a friend's house for several days, Hitler was arrested and
put on trial for high treason. If found guilty, Hitler faced the death penalty.
While in prison Hitler suffered from depression and talked of committing
suicide. However, it soon became clear that the Nazi sympathizers in the
Bavarian government were going to make sure that Hitler would not be punished
severely.
At his trial Hitler was allowed to turn the proceedings into a political
rally, and although he was found guilty he only received the minimum sentence
of five years. Other members of the Nazi Party also received light sentences
and Eric Ludendorff was acquitted.
Hitler was sent to Landsberg Castle in Munich to serve his prison sentence.
While there he wrote Four Years
of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice.
Hitler's publisher reduced it to
My Struggle (Mein Kampf). The book is a mixture of autobiography,
political ideas and an explanation of the techniques of propaganda. The
autobiographical details in Mein
Kampf are often inaccurate, and the main purpose
of this part of the book appears to be to provide a positive image of Hitler.
For example, when Hitler was living a life of leisure in Vienna he claims
he was working hard as a labourer.
In Mein Kampf Hitler outlined his political philosophy. He
argued that the German (he wrongly described them as the Aryan race) was
superior to all others. "Every manifestation of human culture, every
product of art, science and technical skill, which we see before our eyes
today, is almost exclusively the product of Aryan creative power."
Adolf
Hitler warned that the Aryan's superiority was being threatened by intermarriage.
If this happened world civilization would decline: "On this planet
of ours human culture and civilization are indissolubly bound up with the
presence of the Aryan. If he should be exterminated or subjugated, then
the dark shroud of a new barbarian era would enfold the earth."
Although other races would resist this process, the Aryan race had a duty
to control the world. This would be difficult and force would have to be
used, but it could be done. To support this view he gave the example of
how the British Empire had controlled a quarter of the world by being well-organised
and having well-timed soldiers and sailors.
Hitler believed that Aryan superiority was being threatened particularly
by the Jewish race who, he argued, were lazy and had contributed little
to world civilization. (Hitler ignored the fact that some of his favourite
composers and musicians were Jewish). He claimed that the "Jewish youth
lies in wait for hours on end satanically glaring at and spying on the unconscious
girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood with the ultimate idea
of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural
and political level so that the Jew might dominate."
According to Hitler, Jews were responsible for everything he did not like,
including modern art, pornography and prostitution. Hitler also alleged
that the Jews had been responsible for losing the First World War. Hitler also claimed that Jews, who
were only about 1% of the population, were slowly taking over the country.
They were doing this by controlling the largest political party in Germany,
the German
Social Democrat Party, many of the leading companies and several of
the country's newspapers. The fact that Jews had achieved prominent positions
in a democratic society was, according to Hitler, an argument against democracy:
"a hundred blockheads do not equal one man in wisdom."
Hitler believed that the Jews were involved with Communists in a joint conspiracy
to take over the world. Like Henry Ford, Hitler claimed that 75% of all Communists
were Jews. Hitler argued that the combination of Jews and Marxists had already
been successful in Russia and now threatened the rest of Europe. He argued
that the communist revolution was an act of revenge that attempted to disguise
the inferiority of the Jews.
In Mein Kampf Hitler declared that: "The external security
of a people in largely determined by the size of its territory. If he won
power Hitler promised to occupy Russian land that would provide protection
and Lebensraum (living space) for the German people. This action
would help to destroy the Jewish/Marxist attempt to control the world: "The
Russian Empire in the East is ripe for collapse; and the end of the Jewish
domination of Russia will also be the end of Russia as a state."
To achieve this expansion in the East and to win back land lost during the
First
World War, Hitler claimed that it might be necessary to form an alliance
with Britain and Italy. An alliance with Britain was vitally important because
it would prevent Germany fighting a war in the East and West at the same
time.
Hitler was released from prison on 20th December, 1924, after serving just
over a year of his sentence. The Germany of 1924 was dramatically different
from the Germany of 1923. The economic policies of the German government
had proved successful. Inflation had been brought under control and the economy
began to improve. The German people gradually gained a new faith in their
democratic system and began to find the extremist solutions proposed by
people such as Hitler unattractive.
Hitler attempted to play down his extremist image, and claimed that he was
no longer in favour of revolution but was willing to compete with other
parties in democratic elections. This policy was unsuccessful and in the
elections of December 1924 the NSDAP could only win 14 seats compared with
the the 131 obtained by the Socialists (German Social Democrat Party) and the 45 of the German
Communist Party (KPD).
In the 1928 German elections, less than 3% of the people voted for the Nazi
Party. This gave them only twelve seats, twenty fewer than they achieved
in the May, 1924 election. However, the party was well organized and membership
had grown from 27,000 in 1925 to 108,000 in 1928.
One of the new members was Joseph Goebbels. Hitler first met him in 1925. Both
men were impressed with each other. Goebbels described one of their first
meetings in his diary: "Shakes my hand. Like an old friend. And those
big blue eyes. Like stars. He is glad to see me. I am in heaven. That man
has everything to be king."
Hitler admired Goebbels' abilities as a writer and speaker. They shared
an interest in propaganda and together they planned how the NSDAP would
win the support of the German people.
Propaganda cost money and this was something that the Nazi Party was very
short of. Whereas the German Social Democrat Party was funded by the trade
unions and the pro-capitalist parties by industrialists, the NSDAP had to
rely on contributions from party members. When Hitler approached rich industrialists
for help he was told that his economic policies (profit-sharing, nationalization
of trusts) were too left-wing.
In an attempt to obtain financial contributions from industrialists, Hitler
wrote a pamphlet in 1927 entitled
The Road to Resurgence. Only a small number of
these pamphlets were printed and they were only meant for the eyes of the
top industrialists in Germany. The reason that the pamphlet was kept secret
was that it contained information that would have upset Hitler's working-class
supporters. In the pamphlet Hitler implied that the anti-capitalist measures
included in the original twenty-five points of the NSDAP programme would
not be implemented if he gained power.
Hitler began to argue that "capitalists had worked their way to the
top through their capacity, and on the basis of this selection they have
the right to lead." Hitler claimed that national socialism meant all
people doing their best for society and posed no threat to the wealth of
the rich. Some prosperous industrialists were convinced by these arguments
and gave donations to the Nazi Party, however, the vast majority continued
to support other parties, especially the right-wing German Nationalist Peoples Party (DNVP).
Another new member of the NSDAP was Heinrich Himmler. Hitler was impressed by Himmler's
fanatical nationalism and his deep hatred of the Jews. Himmler believed Hitler was the Messiah that was
destined to lead Germany to greatness. Hitler, who was always vulnerable
to flattery, decided that Himmler should become the new leader of his personal
bodyguard, the Schutz Staffeinel (SS).
The German economy continued to improve and as unemployment fell, so did
the support for extremist political parties such as the NSDAP. In the General
Election held in May, 1928, the Nazi Party won only 14 seats, while the
left-wing parties, theGerman Social Democrat Party (153) and the German
Communist Party (54) still continued to grow in popularity.
The fortunes of the NSDAP changed with the Wall Street Crash in October 1929. Desperate for capital,
the United States began to recall loans from Europe. One of the consequences
of this was a rapid increase in unemployment. Germany, whose economy relied
heavily on investment from the United States, suffered more than any other
country in Europe.
Before the crash, 1.25 million people were unemployed in Germany. By the end of 1930 the figure
had reached nearly 4 million. Even those in work suffered as many were only
working part-time. With the drop in demand for labour, wages also fell and
those with full-time work had to survive on lower incomes. Hitler, who was
considered a fool in 1928 when he predicted economic disaster, was now seen
in a different light. People began to say that if he was clever enough to
predict the depression maybe he also knew how to solve it.
In the General Election that took place in September 1930, the Nazi Party
increased its number of representatives in parliament from 14 to 107. Hitler
was now the leader of the second largest party in Germany.
The German
Social Democrat Party was the largest party in the Reichstag, it did not have a majority over all the other
parties, and the SPD leader, Hermann Mueller, had to rely on the support of others
to rule Germany. After the SPD refused to reduce unemployment benefits,
Mueller was replaced as Chancellor by Heinrich Bruening of the Catholic Centre Party (BVP). However, with his party
only having 87 representatives out of 577 in the Reichstag, he also found
it extremely difficult to gain agreement for his policies.
Adolf
Hitler used this situation to his advantage, claiming that parliamentary
democracy did not work. The NSDAP argued that only Hitler could provide
the strong government that Germany needed. Hitler and other Nazi leaders
travelled round the country giving speeches putting over this point of view.
What said depended very much on the audience. In rural areas he promised
tax cuts for farmers and government actin to protect food prices. In working
class areas he spoke of redistribution of wealth and attacked the high profits
made by the large chain stores. When he spoke to industrialists, Hitler
concentrated on his plans to destroy communism and to reduce the power of
the trade union movement. Hitler's main message was that Germany's economic
recession was due to the Treaty of Versailles. Other than refusing to pay reparations,
Hitler avoided explaining how he would improve the German economy.