| | Finally, the Nazis wiped out free speech and religious freedom, demanding “a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press”, that “Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare [http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_chicsuntimes-rush.htm shall be suppressed]”, disingenuously promising freedom for all religious faiths “in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence” or “[http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=190 offend the moral and ethical sense]” of the Germanic race.<ref>Louis Leo Snyder, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=8hV4AAAAIAAJ Documents of German History]'' (Rutgers University Press, 1958), p. 393 ''et seq.''</ref> The Party statutes of May 22, 1926, state of these points: "This program is unalterable."<ref>[http://specialcollections.library.emory.edu/findingaids/content.php?id=gosnell425_10351 Cullen Bryant Gosnell] and [http://iamcr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=360&Itemid=362 Raymond Blalock Nixon], [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZVDNAAAAMAAJ ''Proceedings: Institute of Citizenship'', Vol. 18, Iss. 7, 1932] (Emory University)</ref> | | Finally, the Nazis wiped out free speech and religious freedom, demanding “a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press”, that “Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare [http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_chicsuntimes-rush.htm shall be suppressed]”, disingenuously promising freedom for all religious faiths “in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence” or “[http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=190 offend the moral and ethical sense]” of the Germanic race.<ref>Louis Leo Snyder, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=8hV4AAAAIAAJ Documents of German History]'' (Rutgers University Press, 1958), p. 393 ''et seq.''</ref> The Party statutes of May 22, 1926, state of these points: "This program is unalterable."<ref>[http://specialcollections.library.emory.edu/findingaids/content.php?id=gosnell425_10351 Cullen Bryant Gosnell] and [http://iamcr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=360&Itemid=362 Raymond Blalock Nixon], [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZVDNAAAAMAAJ ''Proceedings: Institute of Citizenship'', Vol. 18, Iss. 7, 1932] (Emory University)</ref> |
| − | "Architect of the Holocaust" Adolf Eichmann wrote in his memoirs, "My political sympathies inclined towards the left and emphasized socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.” He and his comrades, said Eichmann, viewed Nazism and Communism as “quasi-siblings."<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, pp. 16-17</ref> Likewise, in a 1944 article titled "Our Socialism," Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels boasted that “We alone [the Nazis] have the best social welfare measures.” In contrast, he wrote, "The Jews are the incarnation of capitalism.”<ref>Victor Klemperer, ''I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945'' Vol. 2 (Random House, Inc., 2001) ISBN 0375756973, p. 317</ref> (Even in this antisemitism, the Nazis were following Marx, who wrote, "Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? ''Practical'' need, ''self-interest''. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? ''Huckstering''. What is his worldly God? ''Money''.")<ref>Karl Marx, "[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/ On The Jewish Question]," ''Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher'', February 1844</ref> | + | "Architect of the Holocaust" Adolf Eichmann wrote in his memoirs, "My political sympathies inclined towards the left and emphasized socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.” He and his comrades, said Eichmann, viewed Nazism and Communism as “quasi-siblings."<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, pp. 16-17</ref> Likewise, in a 1944 article titled "Our Socialism," Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels boasted that “We alone [the Nazis] have the best social welfare measures.” In contrast, he wrote, "The Jews are the incarnation of capitalism.”<ref>Victor Klemperer, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=-_E1rr7tLlcC I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945]'' Vol. 2 (Random House, Inc., 2001) ISBN 0375756973, p. 317</ref> (Even in this antisemitism, the Nazis were following Marx, who wrote, "Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? ''Practical'' need, ''self-interest''. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? ''Huckstering''. What is his worldly God? ''Money''.")<ref>Karl Marx, "[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/ On The Jewish Question]," ''Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher'', February 1844</ref> |
| | By confiscating and redistributing the property of Jews, the Nazis sought what they called “a truly socialist division of personal assets.”<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 300</ref> To this end, the Nazis enacted price controls, rent controls, exorbitant corporate taxes, farm subsidies and harsh taxes on capital gains,<ref>Michael C. Moynihan , "[http://reason.com/archives/2007/08/15/hitlers-handouts Hitler's Handouts: Inside the Nazis' Welfare State]," ''Reason'', August/September 2007</ref> which Hitler denounced as “effortless income.”<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 65</ref> | | By confiscating and redistributing the property of Jews, the Nazis sought what they called “a truly socialist division of personal assets.”<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 300</ref> To this end, the Nazis enacted price controls, rent controls, exorbitant corporate taxes, farm subsidies and harsh taxes on capital gains,<ref>Michael C. Moynihan , "[http://reason.com/archives/2007/08/15/hitlers-handouts Hitler's Handouts: Inside the Nazis' Welfare State]," ''Reason'', August/September 2007</ref> which Hitler denounced as “effortless income.”<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, p. 65</ref> |