@Nonilex Same sound and meaning of cleansing the administration, federal governments etc. It comes actually from the right "AfD". Since ten years they are telling us what they wanne renew, how bad migration is for our country. The "renew" is mostly a trowback to everything which 1933 began. #LSBTIQ+ people are the new jews. It's a dangerous copy!

#Hitler#fckAfD #Trump #fckFascism

“Billions of reichsmarks are needed for rearmament,” #Hitler had told his ministers in that meeting. “The future of Germany depends solely & exclusively on the rebuilding of the army.” Hitler’s #TradeWar with his neighbors would prove to be but a prelude to his shooting war with the world.

“Never believe in help from abroad, never on help from outside our own nation, our own people,” #Hitler said. “The future of the German people is to be found in our own selves.”

Hitler did not refer specifically to the #TradeWar he had launched that afternoon, just as he did not mention the rearmament plans he had discussed w/his cabinet the previous day.

In his address, #Hitler declared that the entire country needed to be rebuilt after years of mismanagement by previous govts. He spoke of the “sheer madness” of international obligations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, of the need to restore “life, liberty, & happiness” to the German people, of the need for “cleansing” #bureaucracy, public life, culture, the population, “every aspect of our life.” His #tariff regime…would help restore the pride & honor of German self-reliance.

#Hitler launched his #TradeWar on the second Friday of his chancellorship. That evening, he appeared in the Berlin Sportpalast, the city’s largest venue, for a rally in front of thousands of jubilant followers. It was his first public appearance as chancellor, & it served as a victory lap. Hitler dispensed with the dark suit he wore in cabinet meetings in favor of his brown storm-trooper uniform with a bright-red swastika armband.

That proved to be true.

“Our exports have shrunk significantly,” Foreign Minister Neurath informed #Hitler…, “& our relations to our neighboring countries are threatening to deteriorate.” Neurath noted informal contacts w/Dutch interlocutors had been “brusquely broken off.” #Trade relations w/Sweden & Denmark were similarly strained, as were those w/France & Yugoslavia. Finance Minister Krosigk anticipated the agricultural sector would require an additional 100M reichsmarks in deficit spending.

The primary targets of #Hitler #tariffs—the Scandinavian countries & the Netherlands—were outraged by the sudden suspension of favored-nation #trading status on virtually all agricultural products, + textiles, w/tariffs in some cases rising 500%. W/its livestock essentially banished…,Denmark…was facing substantial losses.…The Danes & Swedes threatened “retaliatory measures,” as did the Dutch, who warned Germany the countermeasures would be felt as “palpable blows” to German industrial exports.…

The #Hitler #tariffs, announced on Friday, Feb 10, 1933, stunned observers. “The dimension of the tariff increases have in fact exceeded all expectations,” the Vossische Zeitung wrote disapprovingly, proclaiming the moment a “fork in the road” for the German #economy. It appeared that Europe’s largest & most industrialized nation would suddenly be returning “to the furrow & the plow.” The New York Times saw this for what it was: “a #TradeWar” against its European neighbors.

…as one critic observed…the international #trading system had been in place for 200 years & proved itself beneficial to all parties. #Hitler’s proposed “national economy,” with its self-defeating #tariff policies, would plunge the country into a “severe crisis” that could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. And that was even before any damage wreaked by retaliatory #tariffs.

Hans Joachim von Rohr, who worked at the Reich’s nutrition ministry, went on national radio to explain the logic of #Hitler’s #tariff strategy. “The products that Germany lacks must be made more expensive; then farmers will produce them in sufficient quantities,” Rohr explained. “And if foreign competition is kept at bay by tariffs & the like, city residents will prefer domestic production.” Rohr offered lard—“Schmalz”—as an example.

But although the average voter may not have cared about the details of the #Hitler #economy, the #markets did. The initial surge in #stocks that greeted Hitler’s appointment halted then dipped & flattened amid the political & economic #uncertainty of Hitler’s #chaotic first weeks as chancellor.

…As chancellor, #Hitler left his own plans for the German #economy intentionally vague. His chief priority, as he told his ministers, was to secure an outright majority in the March 5 Reichstag elections. Hitler calculated that he needed between 18 million & 19 million votes. “There is no economic program that could meet with the approval of such a large mass of voters,” Hitler told party leaders.

But #Hitler made no effort to reassure the #markets, insisting that the #tariffs were necessary & that he needed time to fix the ruined country his predecessors had left him. “Within 4 years the German farmer must be saved from destitution,” Hitler said in his first national radio address as chancellor. “Within 4 years unemployment must be completely overcome.” Hitler provided scant details as to how this was to be accomplished.

“The maintenance of export relations to these countries is a mandatory requirement,”Hamm wrote. If one were to “strangle” #trade through #tariffs, it would endanger German industrial production—which…would inflict severe self-harm on the #economy, & lead to increased #unemployment. “Exporting German goods provides 3 million workers w/jobs.”The last thing Germany’s…still-fragile economy needed was a #TradeWar. Hamm urged #Hitler to exercise “greatest caution”in his tariff policies.
#Trump

Hamm went on to explain to #Hitler that even though Germany imported more agricultural products than it exported to its European neighbors, these countries provided #markets for German industrial production. (At the time, Germany imported on average 1.5 billion reichsmarks annually in agricultural products, while exporting an average 5.5 billion reichsmarks in industrial & manufactured goods.)

Eduard Hamm, a fmr economics minister who served on the board of the German Industry & Trade Assn, dispatched a stern letter to the new chancellor instructing him on the “legal, economic & psychological prerequisites for building capital.” The free-market system, Hamm reminded #Hitler, was based on trust, the rule of #law, & adherence to contractual obligations.

Thus #Hitler’s main economic task as chancellor was not to mess things up. The German #StockMarket had rallied on news of his coming to power. “The Boerse recovered today from its weakness when it learned of Adolf Hitler’s appointment, an outright boom extending over the greater part of stocks,” The New York Times reported.

The crash of 1929 [← sub “2020 pandemic”] plunged Germany, along w/…the rest of the world, into an abyss. Markets collapsed. Factories were idled. Unemployment soared.…1 out of 3 German workers was unemployed. But #Hitler had inherited a recovering #economy: In Dec 1932, the German Institute for Economic Research reported the crisis had been “significantly overcome”[Bidenomics did that for the pandemic]; by the time Hitler was appointed chancellor, in Jan 1933, the economy was on the mend.