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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> It was in this atmosphere that the New Deal took shape.
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> It was in this atmosphere that the New Deal took shape.
Even the Kremlin itself would on at least one occasion admit that Nazi Germany was a socialist nation. On October 7, 1939, the 22nd anniversary of the [[Bolshevik Revolution|Bolshevik coup]], the [[Comintern]] issued a statement describing the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland as "an example of cooperation of socialist nations against Anglo-French imperialism."<ref>[[http://www.17september1939.com 1939 September 17]]</ref>
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