TIK’s “Hitler's Socialism: The Evidence is Overwhelming” 1

Hitler's Socialism: The Evidence is

Overwhelming
https://youtu.be/mLHG4IfYE1w
Published 13/02/2023

Preface to this PDF 2

The Script 3

Bibliography / Sources 18
Primary and Secondary 18
Online Sources 22
Other Relevant Videos 24
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Preface to this PDF

This is the script to the 43 minute YouTube video of the same name
https://youtu.be/mLHG4IfYE1w

In essence, this is a condensed and updated version of my 5 hour “Hitler’s Socialism” video I
made almost exactly two years ago in February 2020 https://youtu.be/eCkyWBPaTC8

Despite being backed by 109 sources and 350 direct references/citations, my critics
complained that they didn’t have the time to watch a 5 hour video, and therefore simply
dismissed my entire argument, claiming I was “insane”. My supporters also requested that I
make a shortened video that hit the essential points so they could more easily share it
amongst their friends and colleagues. This new video should achieve two birds with one
stone.

Of course, a lot had to be cut in order to condense things down. Many quotes and other
counter-arguments are gone, but this is compensated by new details and evidence. The
structure is entirely different, making this a far more efficient and impactful read. The original
5 hour video script was 40,916 words, while this is just 6,295 words. And despite the
changes, this video is still backed by 110 sources (primary and secondary) and 106
references/citations.

There’s no excuse now to not take the evidence and argument seriously.

Thank you.
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The Script
The Marxist narrative is that Hitler “privatised the industries”, “crushed the trade unions”, and
was a capitalist shill. But is this really the case?

The process of collectivisation of the German people started at the moment the Nazis seized
power, and evolved over time. As described in Günter Reiman’s primary source document
‘The Vampire Economy’, and Adam Tooze’s ‘Wages of Destruction’, as well as many others,
Nazi Party officials and SA members walked into the factories and businesses, and took
them over from within.1 It wasn’t “privatisation” as the British Keynesian Magazine known as
‘the Economist’ claimed it was in 1936 to describe the policy of the German banks selling
shares. Yes, it had nothing to do with the selling of the industries to private interests. Worse,
other political commentators in the 1940s describe how the government’s “centralising” of
the economy was “privatisation”, which is clearly not the meaning of the word ‘privatisation’
we use today. And regardless, the actual Nazi policy wasn’t “privatisation” - I don’t know
where the media got the term from; they probably just made it up.2 But the actual Nazi policy
was called “Gleichschaltung”. This stands for “coordination” or “synchronisation” - as in,
synchronisation of the economy and society into the State. Everything was to be merged
together as one, into the social state - the exact opposite of so-called “privatisation”.3

“Business and professional associations, sports clubs, choral societies, shooting

clubs, patriotic associations, and most other forms of organised activity were taken
under - or more frequently hastened to place themselves under - National Socialist
control in the first months of the Third Reich. ‘There was no more social life; you
couldn’t even have a bowling club’ that was not ‘coordinated’, was how one
inhabitant of Northeim in Lower Saxony remembered it.”4

There was a National Socialist Physician’s League, a National Socialist Teachers’ League, a
National Socialist War Victims’ Association, 5 a National Socialist Women’s Front,6 various
youth organisations,7 a National Socialist Flying Club… Seriously, we’d be here all day if I

1
Mierzejewski, “The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich,” p4. Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,”
Chapter 2. Temin, “Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the 1930s,” p576-577. Tooze, "Wages of
Destruction," p111-113.
2
Bel, "The Coining of "Privatization" and Germany's National Socialist Party," Journal of Economic
Perspectives vol 20, p187–194. Buchheim & Scherner, “Private Property in the Nazi Economy,” p394.
Kennedy, “Yes, They Were Socialists: How the Nazis Waged War on Private Property,” 07/05/2022
https://mises.org/wire/yes-they-were-socialists-how-nazis-waged-war-private-property
3
Benz, “A Concise History of the Third Reich,” p28-30. Evans, “The Coming of the Third Reich,”
Chapter 5, Part 4. Kershaw, “Hitler: Hubris,” p479, p481. Lindner, "Inside IG Farben,” p67. Mises,
“Omnipotent Government,” p67, p227-230, p251. Neumann, “Behemoth,” p51. Rausching, “The
Revolution of Nihilism,” p9.
4
Kershaw, “Hitler: Hubris,” p479.
5
Evans, “The Coming of the Third Reich,” Chapter 5, Part 4.
6
Bessel, “Life in the Third Reich,” p22. Evans, “The Coming of the Third Reich,” Chapter 5, Part 4.
7
Bessel, “Life in the Third Reich,” p22, p25-29. Evans, “The Coming of the Third Reich,” Chapter 5,
Part 4.
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was to list out all the various social clubs and social movements of the National Socialist
regime.8

“The only person in Germany who still has a private life is a person who’s sleeping.”9

“Between 30 January and 14 July 1933… [the Nazis] had coordinated all social
institutions, apart from the Churches and the army, into a vast and still inchoate
structure run by themselves. They had purged huge swathes of culture and the arts,
the universities and the education system, and almost every other area of German
society, of everyone who was opposed to them.”10

Private property rights, as enshrined by articles 115 and 153 of the Weimar Constitution,
were abolished in the Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933. Many historians ignore this part of the
Reichstag Fire Decree, simply because they can’t explain it, or think it’s irrelevant. My
question to them is: why didn’t the Jews and others sue the Nazis for stealing their property
from them? Oh that’s right, because private property rights had been abolished. And where
were they abolished? In the Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933.11

"The Nazis viewed private property as conditional on its use - not as a fundamental
right. If the property was not being used to further Nazi goals, it could be
nationalised.”12

So, the industries and businesses were nationalised.13 The people who ran the industries
were Nazis.14 Every member of the executive branches of IG Farben were members of the
Nazi Party, except the one who was a Swiss national and therefore exempt.15 And heavy
social regulations were imposed on every industry, including regulations on the hiring and
firing of workers, working hours, work habits, accidents, wages, vacation time, etc.16 If the
“leaders” refused to cooperate, the factories that they supposedly owned were taken off
them. Professor Junker of the Junkers aeroplane factory was the first to be thrown out of his
own business as a result, but he wasn’t the only one.17

Those industries that had their former owners removed (expropriated) were then sold to
individuals in the Nazi Party, who then ran them for the benefit of the Nazi Party. In other
words: they were nationalised. This fact is pointed out by Bel’s “Against the Mainstream” - a

8
"Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10,
October 1946 – April 1949" p1089-1096.
9
Robert Ley, Head of the German Labour Front, quoted from Evans, “The Third Reich in Power,”
p107.
10
Evans, “The Coming of the Third Reich,” Kindle: Chapter 6 “A ‘Revolution of Destruction?’”.
11
Text of the Reichstag Fire Decree, 28 Feb 1933. Text of the Weimar Constitution.
12
Temin, “Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the 1930s,” p576.
13
Bel, "Against the mainstream," PDF p3 + p9. Mierzejewski, “The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich,”
p4. Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” Chapter 2. Temin, “Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the
1930s,” p576-577. Tooze, "Wages of Destruction," p111-113.
14
Bel, "Against the mainstream," PDF p3 + p9. Jeffreys, “Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 9. Lindner,
"Inside IG Farben,” p124.
15
Jeffreys, “Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 9. Lindner, "Inside IG Farben,” p104.
16
Lindner, "Inside IG Farben,” p71-74. Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” Chapter 2.
17
Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” Kindle Chapter 2. Temin, “Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning
in the 1930s,” p576-577. Tooze, "Wages of Destruction," p111-113.
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text that is often used by Marxists to “prove” that it was ‘privatisation’. Except it doesn’t, it
accidentally proves the exact opposite. If only they had actually bothered to read it.18

"Both governments [Nazi and Soviet] reorganised industry into larger units, ostensibly
to increase state control over economic activity. The Nazis reorganised industry into
13 administrative groups with a large number of subgroups to create a private
hierarchy for state control. The state therefore could direct the firms’ activities without
acquiring direct ownership of enterprises. The pre-existing tendency to form cartels
was encouraged to eliminate competition that would destabilise prices.”19

"...in practice the Reichsbank and the Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs had no
intention of allowing the radical activists of the SA, the shopfloor militants of the Nazi
party or Gauleiter commissioners to dictate the course of events. Under the slogan of
the 'strong state', the ministerial bureaucracy fashioned a new national structure of
economic regulation."20

“We worked and governed with incredible elan. We really ruled. For the bureaucrats
of the Ministry the contrast to the Weimar Republic was stark. Party chatter in the
Reichstag was no longer heard. The language of the bureaucracy was rid of the
paralysing formula: technically right but politically impossible.”21

“Manufacturers in Germany were panic-stricken when they heard of the experiences

of some industrialists who were more or less expropriated by the State. These
industrialists were visited by State auditors who had strict orders to “examine” the
balance sheets and all bookkeeping entries of the company (or individual
businessman) for the preceding two, three, or more years until some error or false
entry was found. The slightest formal mistake was punished with tremendous
penalties. A fine of millions of marks was imposed for a single bookkeeping error.
Obviously, the examination of the books was simply a pretext for partial expropriation
of the private capitalist with a view to complete expropriation and seizure of the
desired property later. The owner of the property was helpless, since under [National
Socialism] there is no longer an independent judiciary that protects the property
rights of private citizens against the state. The authoritarian State has made it a
principle that private property is no longer sacred.”22

Marxists claim that Hitler “crushed the trade unions”, which somehow proves that he wasn’t
a socialist, even though Lenin did the exact same thing. But it’s a distortion of the truth.
Everyone who worked in a factory - be they employers or employees - had to be a member
of the DAF - the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, or German Labour Front. This was the nationalised
trade union of the Third Reich that had a whopping 32 million members in 1938 - making this
one of the biggest trade unions in history. Any private union that refused to be nationalised

18
Bel, G. "Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany," Universitat de Barcelona,
PDF p3 + p9.
19
Temin, “Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the 1930s,” p582-583.
20
Tooze, “Wages of Destruction," p112.
21
Schacht, speaking of the situation after 1933, quoted from Tooze, "Wages of Destruction,"
p112-113.
22
Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” Chapter 2.
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into the DAF was crushed - but that isn’t proof of Hitler’s “capitalism”. It’s proof that he
socialised the unions just like Lenin did. There were no private unions in the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics - they were all nationalised into the state.23 And yet, this nationalised
union is simply dismissed by many Marxist historians as a shill for the capitalist elite.24
However, the Nazi Party itself only had 8.5 million members at its peak.25 So for the German
Labour Front to have 32 million members (42% of the entire German population) is a clear
indication that this was an important part of the National Socialist movement, and shouldn’t
just be ignored.26

With private property rights abolished, under the new National Socialist regulations (enforced
by the DAF), the concepts of “employers” and “employees” were done away with, being
replaced with the terms “leaders” and “followers”. And while some “followers” did complain
about the new system, saying it was benefiting the “leaders” at the expense of the
“followers”, their “leaders” also complained about the new system.27

“Yes, I am the ‘leader’ in my factory; my workers are my ‘followers.’ But I am no

longer a manager…28 I cannot decide what is allowed or forbidden in my own
factory…29 There have been cases where managers were removed by the Party of
Labor Trustees and replaced by ‘kommissars.’ ” 30

However, by the same token, some “leaders” and “followers” also embraced the new order,
as it reminded them of the previous war.31

“As “plant leader”... [Ludwig Hermann from Hoechst] perceived himself as an officer
and his “followers” as his soldiers. Hermann recognised the community spirit of the
trenches of the First World War again in the “national community”
(Volksgemeinschaft) of the Nazi regime - as did other industrialists and managers.”32

Profit, as Point 14 of the Nazi ‘Twenty-Five Points’, declared in 1920, was to be shared out
among the community - which it was.33 As Götz Aly’s book “Hitler’s Beneficiaries” makes
clear, most of the taxes were levied against the rich, the corporations, and foreigners like the
Jews. They weren’t levied against the poor, who had their food, rend, clothing, and
recreational activities (plus others) subsidised by the State.34

23
Benz, “A Concise History of the Third Reich,” p32. Lindner, "Inside IG Farben,” p74.
24
Benz, “A Concise History of the Third Reich,” p32. Evans, “The Third Reich in Power,” p107. Shirer,
“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” p327-329.
25
Benz, “A Concise History of the Third Reich,” p35.
26
Benz, “A Concise History of the Third Reich,” p32. Table 1.2. National and colonial boundaries of
1942, showing populations and GDPs of 1938, from - Harrison, "The Economics of World War II."
27
Evans, “The Third Reich in Power,” p107. Lindner, "Inside IG Farben,” p70, p83. Shirer, “The Rise
and Fall of the Third Reich,” p327-329.
28
Herr A. Z. quoted from Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p107.
29
Herr A. Z. quoted from Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p109.
30
Herr A. Z. quoted from Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p116.
31
Lindner, "Inside IG Farben,” p83.
32
Lindner, "Inside IG Farben,” p83.
33
Feder, G. “The Program of the NSDAP: The National Socialist German Workers’ Party and its
General Conceptions.” RJG Enterprises LTD, p32.
34
Aly, “Hitler’s Beneficiaries,” see Chapter 2.
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“Family and child tax credits, marriage loans, and home-furnishing and
child-education allowances were among the measures with which the state tried to
relieve the financial burden on parents and encourage Germans to have more
children.”35

As a great example of regulation, in January 1938, the Nazis decided that if even one Jew
worked for a business, then that business was defined as a ‘Jewish firm’. So by July of that
year, the remaining Jews were removed from the businesses, and in some cases, taken
straight to the camps. The businesses had to do this in order to apply for an official
certificate that declared that they were a “German firm”. If they didn’t get this certificate, they
would be in violation of the Reich’s Race Laws. In other words, the firms were being
socialised - the German people (the social majority) were running the show.36

In addition to this, there were price controls, wage controls, rent controls, and centralised
distribution of goods - materials could only be bought with certificates which had to be
obtained from one of the various central planning boards which distributed said materials.37
There were boards for coal, textiles, timber, batteries, paper and steel - amongst many
others. In no way was this a market free - it was a centrally planned economy.38

“Millions of questionnaires are sent out in order to get a true picture of demands,
stocks, etc. Questionnaires and statistical reports of thousands of firms are collected
and catalogued. A vast number of office workers labours over them in order to
calculate normal requirements, the volume of demand, and other figures necessary
for getting a picture of the market situation.”39

They even had Reich’s Kommissars, like the Reichs Kommissar for prices - Joseph Wagner
- who tried (and failed) to set all prices in the Reich. He failed because Socialism always
fails, but the point is, he tried.40

“The kommissar in charge of the supply of iron and steel sent many circulars to
industrialists blaming them for and warning them against the use of non-quota iron
and steel, as well as against exceeding their quotas.”41

The Reichsbahn - the German railways - were officially nationalised in 1937, but as the
author of “The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich” points out, this just rubber stamped what
had already happened earlier in 1933 and 1934. The Nazis removed the price system from
the railways, in favour of what they described as “social considerations”.42 Numerous laws
were passed that affected the railways and other businesses, as well as the state - too many
to list here - but these resulted in numerous Jews and non-Jews being removed from the

35
Aly, “Hitler’s Beneficiaries,” p38-39.
36
Jeffreys, “Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 9.
37
Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p51-52, p67-70, p251-254.
38
Neumann, “Behemoth,” p251-254. Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p52, p56-57, p59-60.
39
Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p56.
40
Neumann, “Behemoth,” p309. Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p71-75.
41
Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p57.
42
Mierzejewski, “The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich,” p22.
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Reichsbahn in the first year after the Nazis came to power, being replaced by Nazi Party
members, or SA men, etc. 43

In 1941, the national firm - Reichswerke Hermann Göring - was the largest economic
enterprise in Europe. For the Soviet Union, Göring wanted all industry to be nationalised into
the Reichswerke, and was in the process of doing that in the 1941 to 1942 period. The only
country in Axis Europe that Göring’s national corporation didn’t have its grubby hands in was
Romania, although they were trying to gain influence over it.44

German farmers had all their private debt collectivised, and a national bank was set up to
oversee this process. Yes, there was no more private debt for farmers. But even better,
farms could no longer be repossessed or sold, effectively forcing farmers to be farmers, all of
which are forms of farm collectivisation. This was done through an inheritary system, and,
due to various reasons, it was limited to certain farms - so it wasn’t done for every farm - but
nonetheless it shows they were trying to move in that direction.45 And again, prices for
agricultural produce were fixed,46 and subsidies were given to the farmers.47 Farmers were
encouraged by state regulations to stop producing meat and eggs, and to concentrate on
grain production, because the guys in charge decided that this would be a more productive
use of the land - showing that the farmers were not in a free market.48 Of course, just like the
Soviet Union, this led to a huge reduction of food production, with grain reserves dropping
from 5.5 million tons in June 1939 to 1.2 million tons in 1943, despite the German Army
stealing food from numerous other countries.49

Even IG Farben’s decision to build their Buna factory at Auschwitz was encouraged by the
State. In addition to tax exemptions, and the fact that some members of the IG Farben board
were in Himmler’s ‘Circle of Friends’ (which is why he provided slave labour to the firm), 50 the
cooperation and coordination between the SS and the IG Farben firm has been described by
one historian as a “symbiotic relationship”.51

“IG Farben’s eight-year-long entanglement with the Nazis had brought it to an

extraordinary point where one of its leading executives was describing the merits of a
new factory in unmistakably racial terms and openly extolling the virtues of its
profitable collaboration with a murderous regime. The availability of slave labour had
been a crucial factor in the concern’s decision to build a plant next to a concentration
camp… Auschwitz’s inmates were already dying of hunger and exhaustion and
disease and bullet wounds and beatings. Within a few months, as a consequence of
the IG’s actions, the first selections to the gas chambers would begin.”52

43
Mierzejewski, “The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich,” p5-6.
44
Overy, “War and Economy in the Third Reich,” p156.
45
Tooze, "Wages of Destruction," p182-185.
46
Tooze, "Wages of Destruction," p186.
47
Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," p55.
48
Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," p170.
49
Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," p170. Collingham, The Taste of War, p184-190.
50
Steinbacher, “Auschwitz,” p47-50.
51
Jeffreys, “Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 11.
52
Jeffreys, “Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 11.
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Speaking of slave labourers, it has been argued that take-home pay for the German workers
shrank, that they couldn’t change jobs, and weren’t allowed to strike, thus 'proving' that
Hitler’s regime wasn’t socialist. William Shirer in his book “The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich” even claims that the German workers were like “mediaeval peasants bound to the
lord of the manor”. I’ve been over this in more depth in the video on Hitler supposedly
crushing the trade unions, but essentially no.53 Worker pay may have shrank in nominal
terms, but in actual real terms, it definitely went up, thanks to wage and price controls, rent
controls, subsidies on food, rent, coal, insurance policies and more besides.54

The ‘Labour Book’ that the German workers had did prevent them from just swapping jobs,
but it also stopped employers from hiring people they liked. Remember, a socialist economy
is centrally planned, so the central planners dictate where you go and what you do. The fact
that the workers were centrally planned is proof that the economy was “rationally regulated” -
a central tenet of socialism.55 And since the socialist state is meant to be working for the
workers, you therefore can’t have workers protesting against it, otherwise that proves it’s not
a worker-state. Thus, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin, and more socialists besides, all stopped
workers from striking. So, preventing the workers from striking after the revolution is actually
an indication that you have socialism, since if they were allowed to strike, that would be
private initiative, which is the antithesis of socialism.

Now, all the socialist policies that the Third Reich implemented resulted in the economy
being overburdened and unproductive. Debts were piling up,56 and Hitler was informed on
the 1st of September 1938 that the state coffers would be empty within a month.57 In the
end, the cost of implementing Hitler’s limited-socialism was too much for the Third Reich’s
economy to bear, and the only solution was to go to war in order to steal the resources of
Europe and export their financial problems abroad.58 German soldiers plundered Europe,
sending goods back home, as the Reich exported their inflation to other countries. Countries
like Belgium, France, Greece, Poland, and the former Soviet territories, saw their local
currencies hyperinflate, which sucked out the goods from their economies and put them in
the hands of the Germans. The Jews were targeted heavily for the same reason, and
obviously had their possessions stolen off them (as well as their lives). Due to supply and
demand, these extra goods flowing into the economy suppressed prices at home, masking
the massive quantitative easing (inflation) going on, in a very similar way that the United
States of America is doing to the rest of the world today. 59

53
Benz, “A Concise History of the Third Reich,” p32. Evans, “The Third Reich in Power,” p11, p13,
p55, p85-97, p140, p239. Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” p327-333. Tooze, “Wages of
Destruction,” p40, p102. Wikipedia, “Economy of Nazi Germany,” accessed 14/01/2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany
54
Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," p36, p62, p71. Neumann, “Behemoth,” p306. Overy, “Nazi Economic
Recovery,” p31. Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p71.
55
Lindner, "Inside IG Farben,” p74. Reimann, “The Vampire Economy,” p109. Shirer, “The Rise and
Fall of the Third Reich,” p327.
56
Ahamed, “Lords of Finance”, p483-484. Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," p18, p36-40. Evans, “The Third
Reich in Power,” p433. Overy, “The Nazi Economic Recovery,” 1932-1938, p1, p23. Schacht,
"Confessions of 'The Old Wizard'," PDF p330-332, p357-358.
57
Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," p44.
58
Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," p40, p52.
59
Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," p41, p76-78, p94-85, p97, p102, p117, p135-138, p141-144, p158,
p244-249. Collingham, “The Taste of War,” p184-190. Snyder, “Blood Lands,” p171.
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What’s that? Keynes took influence from the Nazi economists when he set up his own
economic school of thought and then created the Bretton Woods System, which is very
similar to how the Axis system exploited Europe? You don’t say. 60

Marxists also believe in the conspiracy theory that Hitler was a pawn of big business (who
were the real puppet masters), and that the industrialists financially supported Hitler into
power.61

Wikipedia - the greatest source in the universe - still says that:

“Hitler and his party received lavish donations from wealthy benefactors at home and
abroad.”62

It then proceeds to list several industrialists and rich people who gave him donations that
allowed him to purchase cars, a chauffeur, and even created the Berghof. But all of this is
misleading because it’s implying that the industrialists supported Hitler throughout his rise
and into the Third Reich, which is a deliberate distortion.63

Prior to Hitler’s seizure of power, the only major industrialist who was actually a committed
supporter of Hitler was Fritz Thyssen…64 who then had his business nationalised and taken
off him by the Nazis in 1939, and he spent the last year of the war in a concentration camp.
(Serves him right!)65 There was also Hjalmar Schacht - who had been in charge of
Germany’s state central bank, the Reichsbank, up until 1930 - who also gave his committed
support for Hitler.66 But Schacht, who was reinstated into the Reichsbank in March 1933,
was also thrown out by Hitler himself in 1939 and also put in a concentration camp. (Serves
him right as well!)67

Of course, there were more industrialists who gave some support to the Nazis, but as Turner
points out in “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler”, most of this support went to
individual Nazis rather than the Party itself.68 Also, support for the Party itself came late in
the day (either at the 11th hour, or even after the Nazis had gained power), and the big
businesses were simultaneously supporting other parties. In other words, they were hedging
their bets, because, while the Nazis were looking like they were going to win, the Nazis

60
Sennholz, "Age of Inflation," p89.
61
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p350-351. Wikipedia, “Adolf Hitler’s wealth
and income,” accessed 07/02/2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_wealth_and_income Brennan Center For Justice, &
Spelliscy, C. “How Big Business Bailed Out the Nazis.” 20 May 2016
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis
62
Wikipedia, “Adolf Hitler’s wealth and income,” accessed 07/02/2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_wealth_and_income
63
Wikipedia, “Adolf Hitler’s wealth and income,” accessed 07/02/2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_wealth_and_income
64
Jeffreys, “Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 6.
65
Evans, “The Third Reich in Power,” p449.
66
Jeffreys, “Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 6.
67
Ahamed, “Lords of Finance”, p483-484. Schacht, "Confessions of 'The Old Wizard'," PDF p355-358,
p381. Prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials, from
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68
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p346-347.
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weren’t big business’s first choice. None of these industrialists could be considered
committed Nazis prior to 1933, and the rise of Nazism definitely wasn’t some sort of grand
conspiracy on the part of the big businessmen.69

As numerous historians have pointed out, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party was
a grassroots organisation that financed itself from donations and selling tickets to Hitler’s
speeches. Here is Richard Evans confirming this.70

“The Nazi Party depended on such commitment [finance from the grassroots]; much
of its power and dynamism came from the fact that it was not dependent on big
business or bureaucratic institutions such as trade unions for its financial support, as
the ‘bourgeois’ parties and the Social Democrats to varying degrees were, still less
on the secret subsidies of a foreign power, along the lines of the Moscow-financed
Communists.”71

“The notion that Germany’s capitalists contributed significantly to Hitler’s rise has
become something of a truism. More often than not, that is the message conveyed by
American textbooks for students of European history and by other instructional
works. With astonishing frequency, in short, evidence and purported evidence
bearing on the subject of this book has been dealt with by historians in a fashion
marked by a striking suspension of professional standards.”72

As Turner points out, the myth persists that capitalists brought Hitler to power, despite the
fact that the evidence quite simply doesn’t support it. In other words, they made it up.73
Regimes and ideologies then use this myth as propaganda to convince the masses that
capitalism is inherently murderous and “fascist” by nature.74

“Most publications that explain the rise of Nazism in terms of capitalism have no need
to rely heavily on evidence… Since most of what occurs in the economic sphere is
assumed to remain concealed from the public and even from the historian, much
must be surmised from a few clues rather than demonstrated by a sustained
marshalling of evidence, as in traditional historical scholarship.”75
“Even solid evidence has frequently been interpreted in such a manner as to
distort it… Bias, in short, appears over and over again in treatments of the political
role of big business even by otherwise scrupulous historians.”76
“That bias should not come as a surprise. Professional historians generally
have little or no personal contact with the world of business.77 Like so many
intellectuals, they tend to view big business with a combination of condescension and

69
Jeffreys, “Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 6.
70
Evans, “The Coming of the Third Reich,” Kindle Chapter 3: “The Roots of Commitment”. Jeffreys,
“Hell’s Cartel,” Kindle Chapter 6. Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p347,
p352-353.
71
Evans, “The Coming of the Third Reich,” Kindle Chapter 3: “The Roots of Commitment”.
72
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p350.
73
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p352-353.
74
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p353.
75
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p354.
76
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p350.
77
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p350.
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mistrust.78 Relatively few of their number find it a congenial subject for research. As a
consequence, most of what historians have written about the political role of German
big business in the period dealt with in this book has been largely uninformed by
knowledge about businessmen or their institutions. Since almost all of those who
have concerned themselves with the relationship between the business community
and Nazism have, to one degree or another, stood left or at least left of center in their
political sympathies, a great many have found it difficult to resist the temptation to
implicate big business, which clearly belonged to the right, in the rise of Nazism.”79

Now, some people have denied the historical definition of socialism, even though none of
these people can provide an alternative definition that isn’t just a rephrasing of the historical
definition. The historical definition of socialism is: the social ownership of the means of
production (hence the word “social-ism”). The idea is that society will be centrally organised,
that private property will be abolished and transferred to ‘social’ control, 80 and that
“socialised man [will] rationally regulate their interchange with Nature” (in other words - they
will plan the economy rather than leave it to the free market).81 That is what socialism is. It is
not when the workers do stuff. It’s not when there’s puppy dogs and rainbows. It’s social
ownership of the means of production. So, in order to prove that Hitler was a socialist, all we
have to do is show that Hitler attempted to centrally organise the economy, attempted to
abolish private property, attempted to transfer all property into ‘social’ control, and attempted
to regulate the economy… which is exactly what we’ve done.82

On the other hand, Karl Marx’s socialism was based on class, so he says that the
“associated producers” (or the “workers”) are the “socialised men”.83 But socialism pre-dates
Marxism and has nothing to do with class. Marx added the “class” element to socialism to
create Marxist-Socialism, or ‘class socialism’.84 Hitler said that Marxist Socialism wasn’t real
socialism (which it wasn’t), and came up with his own version of socialism. Rather than
“class”, his “socialised men” would be the Aryans. 85 In other words, Hitler’s Socialism was a
‘race socialism’. This does make it different to Marxist Socialism, however it is still a variant
of socialism, because class and race are just add-ons to the idea of Socialism, not Socialism
itself.86

“The sacrifice of the individual existence is necessary in order to assure the

conservation of the race.”87

78
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p350-351.
79
Turner, “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler,” p351.
80
Dilorenzo,” The Problem with Socialism,” Kindle. Luxemburg, “The National Question,” p24. Marx,
“Das Kapital v3,” p593. Mises, “Socialism,” p11-12, p45. Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford
University Press, Third Edition 2010. p1693. The American Economic Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Papers
and Discussions of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting (Apr., 1911), p347-354.
81
Marx, “Das Kapital v3,” p593.
82
Dilorenzo,” The Problem with Socialism,” Kindle. Luxemburg, “The National Question,” p24. Marx,
“Das Kapital v3,” p593. Mises, “Socialism,” p11-12, p45. Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford
University Press, Third Edition 2010. p1693. The American Economic Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Papers
and Discussions of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting (Apr., 1911), p347-354.
83
Marx, “Das Kapital v3,” p593.
84
Birchall, “The Spectre of Babeuf,” p151-156. Mises, “Socialism,” p15-17, p72-73.
85
Carsten, “Rise of Fascism,” p137.
86
Aly, “Hitler’s Beneficiaries,” p30.
87
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p147.
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“The racial Weltanschauung [world view] is fundamentally distinguished from the

Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and
therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure.”88

“If the National Socialist Movement should fail to understand the fundamental
importance of this essential principle, if it should merely varnish the external
appearance of the present State and adopt the majority principle, it would really do
nothing more than compete with Marxism on its own ground. For that reason it would
not have the right to call itself a Weltanschauung. If the social programme of the
movement consisted in eliminating personality and putting the multitude in its place,
then National Socialism would be corrupted with the poison of Marxism, just as our
national-bourgeois parties are.”89

Yes, if they forget about the individual, or the fact that they are racists (rather than class-ists),
then they would be just like Marxist Socialists. Hitler had literally just spelt that out.

And just to clarify: I’m NOT saying that Hitler was a Marxist. Hitler was NOT a Marxist. I’m
saying that Hitler was a Socialist. And there is a difference between Marxism and Socialism,
since Socialism pre-dates Marxism. Hitler’s socialism was a socialism for the race - a ‘racial’
socialism - whereas Marx’s socialism was a socialism for the class - a ‘class’ socialism. So,
when my critics say that Hitler wasn’t a socialist because he wasn’t a Marxist, or he hated
Marxists and Social Democrats, they’re missing the point - he wasn’t a Marxist or Social
Democrat, he was a National (German) Socialist. And I don’t know how else to make that
any more clear. Most people are able to understand this, but the Socialist soy-boy
Fascists-in-denial can’t seem to grasp this simple point, so I’m going to use colours to
convey this information to them. Red is Marxism. Brown is National Socialism. And Black is
Fascism. None of these are the same, and yes there is a difference between National
Socialism and Fascism - I’ve covered that in its own video. And I’m not saying that these are
the same. But I am saying that they’re all colours.

“Nah TIK, you just don’t understand. Brown is not Red, bro!”

Yes, I know that Brown is not Red. What I’m saying is that Red is a colour. And Brown is also
a colour.

“Nah mate, you’re an anarcho-Fascist libertarian extremist!”

No, shut up. Red and Brown are not the same, but they are both colours! And Marxist
Socialism and National Socialism are not the same, but they are both socialisms. If socialists
cannot understand this very simple idea, then it’s no wonder that Socialism doesn’t work.

“I have not set myself on the road of politics in order to pave the way for an
international socialism… I bring the German people a national socialism, the political
theory of the national community, the feeling of unity of all who belong to the German

88
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p406.
89
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p406-407.
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nation and who are prepared and willing to feel themselves as being an inseparable
but also co-responsible particle of the totality of the nation.”90

A Marxist might also argue that socialism has to be “international” in nature, not national in
nature. Well, two things: 1, no it doesn’t. 2, they don’t have a monopoly on what socialism is,
so what they say is irrelevant. And 3, internationalism is a form of nationalism. If you have
one nation that conquers the world, it’s one nation under God. A world-wide nation IS A
NATION. So your “internationalism” is actually nationalism. The workers are THE NATION,
and Marxists are nationalists who want to conquer other nations, just like Hitler set out to do.
So this whole nationalism vs internationalism thing is a load of garbage.

Just like Karl Marx, Hitler believed that the Jews were the capitalists.91 But unlike Marx, Hitler
said that the Jewish-capitalists were the puppet-masters behind Marxism, which he says
was working for the benefit of the capitalist-Jews. In other words, he thought Marxism was a
Jewish plot that only put socialism in the name to trick the workers. Hitler’s anti-Semitism
WAS his anti-Capitalism and his anti-Marxism. So by denying his Socialism, you’re denying
his anti-Semitism, and in turn, denying the Holocaust.92

“The internationalisation of our German economic system, that is to say, the

transference of our productive forces to the control of Jewish international finance,
can be completely carried out only in a State that has been politically Bolshevised.
But the Marxist fighting forces, commanded by international and Jewish
stock-exchange capital, cannot finally smash the national resistance in Germany
without friendly help from outside.”93

Yes, "Jewish stock-exchange capital". For Hitler, the Jews, the capitalists, and the Marxists,
are all one and the same. This has led myself and German historian Rainer Zitelmann to
conclude:

“Contrary to the accepted Marxist interpretation, Hitler was not an opponent of

Marxism and did not want to destroy it because he was ‘inimical to labour’ but
because he was caught up in the insane idea that Marxism was an instrument of the
Jews for the achievement of world domination, and above all because he rejected
internationalism, ‘pacifism’ and the negation of the ‘personality principle’ by
Marxism.”94

Hitler also believed in the socialist idea of the “Shrinking Markets”, which is a variant of the
Marxist “Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall” fallacy. This not only proves that Hitler had

90
Hitler to Wagener, from Zitelmann, “Hitler: The Policies of Seduction,” p100.
91
Marx, “The Communist Manifesto,” p21-22, p24, p26, p30-31. Marx, “Das Kapital V1,” p46-63,
p104, p107, p232, p235, p309, p335. Marx, “On the Jewish Question”. Muravchik, “Heaven on Earth,”
Kindle, Chapter 3. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, “Leftism,” p137. “Karl Marx on Herr Vogt” (accessed on
02/04/2020) https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol10/no08/marx.htm
https://www.philosophersmag.com/opinion/30-karl-marx-s-radical-antisemitism
https://www.marxists.org/subject/marxmyths/hal-draper/article.htm
92
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p555.
93
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p555.
94
Zitelmann, “Hitler’s National Socialism,” p199. & Zitelmann, “Hitler: The Policies of Seduction,”
p137-138.
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read Marx, but it also shows that he believed in the now-debunked ‘Labour Theory of Value’,
without which the Shrinking Market’s problem couldn’t happen. The idea is that there’s a
‘crisis of capitalism’ where the profits will fall over time, and, unable to produce more wealth
in the domestic market, the capitalists would need to take more wealth from somewhere
else. In the socialist view, this explains why capitalists conquered foreign markets and
created empires (imperialism) - it was because profits in the domestic market were shrinking.
But worse, they were running out of international markets as well, and thus the poor would
be ever-more exploited, leading to the Revolution.95

Hitler’s interpretation of this supposed problem was a bit different. He said there were the
western industrial nations, and the agricultural nations. Currently, he said, the industrial
nations trade their industrial goods for food from the agricultural nations. However, he said
that as the profits shrank in the industrial nations, the capitalists would seek new markets in
the agricultural nations. They would industrialise them, which would stop them needing
industrial goods from the western nations. Thus trade would end between the two types of
nations, and a hunger crisis would crush the western industrial nations. He said that this
crisis would be exploited by the Jews, who would usher in their Marxist Revolution and take
over the world.96 He says this is dangerous because he also believes that nations are
created by Aryans. He says if the Jews interbreed with the Aryans and spoil their blood,
nations will collapse, and it would be the end of civilisation. He therefore says:97

“For a fight it will have to be, since the first objective will not be to build up the idea of
the People's State but rather to wipe out the Jewish State which is now in existence.
As so often happens in the course of history, the main difficulty is not to establish a
new order of things but to clear the ground for its establishment.”98

He says he can’t implement full-socialism (or full-Autarky), without clearing the ground first,
and without taking the Living Space and resources of the East. He has to conquer the East
first to destroy the “Jewish State” before he can bring in full-Socialism. This is important to
grasp because Hitler could only implement a “half-socialism” until he has conquered the
Soviet Union and got the land and resources he needed (Lebensraum). So Hitler was a
socialist. Even if he failed to implement “full socialism” in the Third Reich, he was attempting
to implement “full socialism”, but failed to do it. At worst, that makes him a failed socialist, not
a capitalist.99

Once he had conquered the land and resources of the East, he didn’t want to industrialise or
capitalise Russia. He wanted to keep it rural (with German farmer-soldier-overlords and
95
Woods, T. “The Anti-Marxist Argument That Clinches It.” https://youtu.be/ffq-8qr6avg
Keen, S. “Use-Value, Exchange-Value, and the Demise of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value.” PDF, P9.
Muravchik, “Heaven on Earth,” p100-101, p105-107, p114.
Manish, G. “Labor and Capitalist Exploitation: Böhm-Bawerk and the Close of Marx’s System”
https://mises.org/wire/labor-and-capitalist-exploitation-bohm-bawerk-and-close-marxs-system
https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1648092/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall
96
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p133-135, p581-582. Hitler, “Second Book,” p26-28.
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p306-307, p556, p581-582. Hitler, “Second Book,” p26-28. Zitelmann, “Hitler:
The Policies of Seduction,” p15-16, p135-137, p212-215, p231-239, p264-266, p274-282, p422-427.
97
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p257-274, p307-308.
98
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p410.
99
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p133-151, p410. Snyder, “Blood Lands,” p158. Zitelmann, “Hitler: The Policies
of Seduction,” p286-290, p306.
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Slavic peasant slaves), and maybe just have the odd highway running through it. This was to
combat the Shrinking Markets problem. If Germany stays industrial, and Russia stays
agricultural, and if both economies were rationally regulated, then they could trade
indefinitely, and thus prevent the collapse of civilisation, leading to a thousand year Reich.
But the fact that he didn’t want to industrialise the east not only shows it wasn’t “Fascist
imperialism”, but also proves that it wasn’t so-called “State Capitalism” either.100

“What should at least be noted is that Hitler, as his refusal to industrialise Russia
demonstrates, clearly rejected the practice of capital export which was characteristic
for the phase of monopoly capitalism.”101

Hitler also wanted to collectivise the race and create a “People’s State” or “People’s
Community” - a Volksgemeinschaft. The idea was to abolish distinctions between classes,
genders and so on, and equalise all Germans in the community. Arguably he didn’t achieve
this, but there was an attempt to solve the class and gender problem. In other words, he was
woke before many of you Antifa-lot were a twinkle in Mussolini’s eye. 102 But in order to make
his people’s commune, he would have to centrally plan the removal of the ‘capitalist Jews’
from society.103

“The nationalisation of the masses can be successfully achieved only if, in the
positive struggle to win the soul of the people, those who spread the international
poison among them are exterminated.”104

Socialists claim that because Hitler killed Ernst Röhm this is somehow proof that Hitler
wasn’t a Socialist. Except, Hitler killed Ernst Röhm because Röhm was a threat to him, and
arguably because he was planning a Second violent National Socialist Revolution. Ernst
Röhm vs Hitler isn’t has nothing to do with a Socialism vs Capitalism argument. It was a
consolidation of power and a clash of views.105

“The conflict between Hitler and Röhm was not a conflict between reaction and
revolution, but more between the representatives of different models of revolution.106
The historian H. Mau probably gave the clearest description by saying that the
conflict was between ‘a revolution of the old school’ (Röhm) and a representative of
‘modern revolution’ (Hitler).” 107

There’s various other counter-arguments, from “if we don’t give all our money to the
Playdoh’s who’s going to build the roads?” to “TIK thinks North Korea is a democracy, and
the Roman Empire is socialist according to TIK”. There’s also the argument that no historian

100
Zitelmann, “Hitler’s National Socialism,” p379. Zitelmann, “Hitler: The Policies of Seduction,” p306.
101
Zitelmann, “Hitler’s National Socialism,” p379. & Zitelmann, “Hitler: The Policies of Seduction,”
p306.
102
Aly, "Hitler’s Beneficiaries," P30. Bessel, “Life in the Third Reich,” p25. Browning and Siegelbaum,
“Beyond Totalitarianism,” Kindle Chapter 6. Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p307, p410.
103
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p307, p410.
104
Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” p307.
105
Zitelmann, “Hitler: The Policies of Seduction,” p72-92.
106
Zitelmann, “Hitler’s National Socialism,” p142. & Zitelmann, “Hitler: The Policies of Seduction,” p85.
107
Zitelmann, “Hitler’s National Socialism,” p142-143. & Zitelmann, "Hitler: The Policies of Seduction,"
p85.
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agrees with me, or that I’m mentally ill, or that I’m letting my pro-free market “ideology” cloud
my judgement. But none of these arguments hold water, and they’re all deflections. For
example, all you have to do is Google the question “who’s going to build the roads Mises?”
and you’ll get a million answers, because it’s been explained a million times before.

Robert Gellately has recently published a book called “Hitler’s True Believers” which strongly
argues that historians (all in academia, which is heavily funded by the State, and thus
biassed) have completely ignored the socialism inherent with National Socialism. And my
so-called free-market “ideology” isn’t clouding my judgement because I came to the
conclusion that Hitler was a socialist when I was a Socialist. I saw the evidence, and realised
that Hitler was a Socialist, and that his racism was his Socialism, and that denying his
Socialism means you’re denying his racism, which means you’re denying the Holocaust
(which I obviously couldn’t do because of the evidence that the Holocaust happened).

Upon realising this, I instantly stopped being a socialist. It was only after the initial backlash
from the Left and the accusations that I had “just read Mises” - which I hadn’t - made me
think: why are they all accusing me of reading Mises? So I looked him up, and I’m glad I did.
Every historian of the Third Reich needs to read Mises’ ‘Omnipotent Government’ at the very
least, if not his book on Socialism, and Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”, and Murray
Rothbard’s “America’s Great Depression”, most of which are available as free PDFs at
Mises.org.

So yes, contrary to the criticism, I was a socialist who saw the evidence, and then
abandoned the faith. The evidence led me to the conclusion, and the conclusion led me to
free market economics - it wasn’t free market economics that led me to conclude that Hitler
was a Socialist. Plus, praxeology (the study of human action - which is inherent within history
theory) is not an ideology, so this argument is utterly wrong, just as the idea that Hitler wasn’t
a Socialist.

On that bombshell, here’s one final quote to end the video.

“I am a German nationalist. This means that I proclaim my nationality. My whole

thought and action belongs to it. I am a socialist. I see no class and no social estate
before me, but that community of the Folk, made up of people who are linked by
blood, united by a language, and subject to a same general fate...”108

Let me know what you guys think in the comments. The full 5-hour video will be linked on the
screen and in the description, and I encourage you to watch that for the full explanation of
the argument. Thanks for watching, bye for now.

108
Hitler, “Second Book,” p50.
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