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[–] 16215239? ago 

Okay, I know you people are lurking, give me your reading material.

I Need Books Portraying National Socialism As Actually Socialist

I dont want it to be true, I want it to be something a deluded bolshevik would cling to. I dont mean Strassers works or Strassers subversions, I mean books on things like the NSV, the WHW and the NSKOV. Things that talk about money being given from one person to another as redistribution… and some obscure books on the National Socialist government in practice, not in theory. Not Feder, but something on post 34 post long knives Germany.

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[–] 16215294? ago 

This book gives a pretty clear look at how things were run in Germany. Though it is wartime reporting, so there would be differences from peacetime, but even in peacetime, resources were limited, and thus heavily controlled.

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[–] 16215363? ago 

Book has a great intro. This is going to be a great read. Thanks.

In 1940, however, accuracy and objectivity on Hitler’s Germany was

not what was wanted by America’s intellectual and policy

establishment. Even before Into the Darkness was published, Time

magazine sniped at Stoddard as “persona grata to Nazis,” running a

grotesquely truncated version of his interview with Goebbels (already

published through the North American Newspaper Alliance). By the

time his book appeared, Germany ‘s armed forces had conquered

Denmark and Norway, overrun the Lowlands and conquered France,

and driven British troops back across the Channel. While the United

States, in accord with the wishes of the great majority of Americans,

would stay officially neutral for a further a year and half, the climate

in the publishing world, the academy, and government was such that

Stoddard felt constrained to include an apologetic “Statement” on the

book jacket. It begins “Personally repellent and depressing though

Nazi Germany was to me, as it must be to any normally-minded

American .” and continues in the same mode for two paragraphs.

Stoddard’s aim then was to salvage himself and his book by

advertising Into the Darkness as a clarion call to preparedness against

the German “New Sparta with its cult of ruthless efficiency”; today,

Stoddard’s apology for Into the Darkness stands more as a sad tribute

to the intimidating power, even then, of America’s Orwellian media

combine. One can’t help noting that none of Stalin ‘s many apologists

among American journalists seems to have felt compelled to write a

similar disclaimer.

Sixty years after it was written, the text of Into the Darkness is both a

refutation of its author’s apologia and a rebuke to his detractors. This

is a journalistic account that still lives and breathes, that informs and

entertains.

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[–] 16215288? ago 

I mean are you under some kind of delusion than National Socialism was some kind of free market libertarian paradise ? Because you've been duped from multiple angles if you believe that, or even want it to be true.