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• georgecarty43 commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  Actually BASF was part of the IG Farben empire, which supported the Nazis not for anti-socialist reasons, but because the Nazis were advocates of autarky. Even back in the 1920s, far-sighted IG Farben had been worried about Peak Oil, and had developed the Fischer-Tropsch process to make oil from coal. Unfortunately, Fischer-Tropsch oil was not competitive with imported oil, so IG Farben needed a protectionist government to get a return on their R&D investment....
• 4861brown commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  The first Nazis were socialist, sort of. to get the big money from big industrialists he killed the Storm Troopers who were full of his early supporters. In the Night of the Long Knives, the SS killed them all. Then the Nazis got the really big money....
• Trottelreiner commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  Oh no, it's starting again... The first Nazis were socialist, sort of. It depends somewhat on your definition of "socialist", which is somewhat murky even with historians. Also note that in Europe, state intervention into economics, state ownership of industries etc. is also something with the right, e.g. some conservatives. And actually, if you look for their peers, the early Nazis were more of an offshot of what is called the "völkisch" movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Völkisch_movement Not that early social democracy doesn't have its anti-semitic skeletons in the closet, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Dühring As for the idea of "National Socialism", if we look for...
• a.harrowell commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  The biography you're after is that of Karl Mayr, who was literally Hitler's army intelligence handler, and later the Nazis' top fundraiser, doing the rounds of rich old ladies in Munich and being the Völkischer Beobachter's diplomatic correspondent, before he became disillusioned with Hitler and helped organise the SPD's loyalist paramilitary, as well as running a scandal sheet investigating prominent Nazis. He fled to Paris after 1933, but was still there in June 1940 and was arrested by a special Gestapo task force. They stuck him in Dachau where he was listed as a "special category detainee, refer to Adolf...
• 4861brown commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  I've into how the world got into this mess for longer than many of you have been alive. "Germany Between the Wars" would answer a lot of the posts questions It has many sources and they mach what I found. I agree with it so it must be true, right....